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 Current home page in November 2024 | |
Type of site | Web portal |
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| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | Microsoft |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Mixed |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | August 24, 1995 |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | ASP.NET[1] |
MSN is a web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps provided by Microsoft. The main webpage provides news, weather, sports, finance and other content curated from hundreds of different sources that Microsoft has partnered with.[2] MSN is based in the United States and offers international versions of its portal for dozens of countries around the world;[3] its dedicated app is currently available for Android and iOS systems.
MSN originally launched on August 24, 1995, alongside the release of Windows 95,[4] as a subscription-based dial-up online service called The Microsoft Network; this later became an Internet service provider named MSN Dial-up. At the same time, the company launched a new web portal named Microsoft Internet Start and set it as the first default home page of Internet Explorer, its web browser. In 1998, Microsoft renamed and moved this web portal to the domain name www.msn.com, where it has remained since.[5] Microsoft subsequently used the 'MSN' brand name for a wide variety of products and services over the years, notably Hotmail (later Outlook.com), Messenger (which was once synonymous with 'MSN' in Internet slang), and its web search engine, which is now Bing, and several other rebranded and discontinued services. In 2014, Microsoft reworked and relaunched the MSN website and suite of apps offered..[6]
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