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Fee-based services considered for MSN
News Microsoft, apparently serious about turning software into a service, is testing the US waters with a number of new, fee-based MSN services, including virus protection, music subscriptions and even an e-mail-via-phone plan, sources say.
[March 7, 2001, 13:34]
.Mac numbers grow
News In mid-September, Apple reported that 100,000 people had signed up for .Mac, a fee-based service that replaced an earlier, free service called iTools. The upgrade fee is $49 for the first year, which is $50 off the announced $99 annual fee for .Mac.
[October 2, 2002, 13:03]
Study: Customers wary of online IDs
News That plan, still on the drawing board, is intended to provide fee-based hosting and delivery of personal information while providing an array of services ranging from commerce to communication in partnership with Web retailers such as eBay.
[April 26, 2002, 14:02]
Comdex 2001: Gates billing MSN Money Professional
News The company also hopes to sell more software on a subscription basis, rather than simply collecting a one-time fee. Code-named MSN Money Professional, the online offering is another salvo in Microsoft's growing arsenal of .Net services.
[November 12, 2001, 15:23]
Microsoft Hailstorm rains on AOL
News First, it should increase the size and loyalty of Microsoft's consumer user base, which should ultimately create opportunities for Microsoft to charge users a monthly fee," he said. HailStorm is based on Passport's user-authentication technology...
[March 20, 2001, 7:26]
Windows XP needs Passport to travel
News Passport is supposed to be a universal gateway to a variety of services -- some free, others for a fee -- delivered by Microsoft and third-party service providers. Just as AOL Time Warner collects a monthly fee for its online service, Microsoft...
[June 22, 2001, 9:26]
Vivendi presses play on music site
News Pressplay, which will charge people a monthly subscription fee to download and stream digital music, launched through its Web distribution partnerships with Yahoo! Microsoft's MSN Music and Roxio. The Pressplay launch is also important for Web...
[December 19, 2001, 16:39]
Sources: AOL not bidding for Red Hat
News Like AOL, Microsoft already charges a monthly fee for MSN online access, something it is expected to do with MSN Web services leveraged off the desktop. While Microsoft controls the source code to Windows and charges a fee for every copy sold on...
[January 22, 2002, 9:13]
Hotmail trashes saved files
News Online storage services such as IBackup, Xdrive and Connected also provide file backup services for a monthly fee. Online photo site PhotoPoint closed down with no notice at all, although it later offered to return files to its 1.25 million...
[June 4, 2004, 9:05]
Yahoo contemplates new Messenger features
News At that time, Yahoo was facing steep declines in online advertising that forced it to scout for other sources of revenue in for-fee services. Yahoo is in fierce competition with MSN and AOL for IM users.
[January 13, 2004, 8:15]
Google wannabes search for success
News Inktomi, AltaVista and Fast Search are just a few companies allowing marketers to pay for prominence in search results -- a trend that came into vogue with the success of for-fee engine GoTo.com. Signaling the widespread acceptance of the model...
[August 28, 2001, 15:25]
Microsoft lays its MSN cornerstone
News On Monday, Novell announced its OnDemand Services software module, which allows hosters to offer goods and services for a monitor-able fee. Due to be commercially available later this year, this update to MSN will provide a platform via which...
[May 24, 2000, 8:12]
MSN outages let IM foes in
News Breaking from its practice with MSN Messenger, which is a free service, Microsoft plans to charge a monthly or annual fee for HailStorm services, which are expected to debut next year. For Microsoft, any defections from its MSN service could make...
[July 11, 2001, 8:48]
Yahoo! to launch paid Net video service
News s "bring your own access" service, a bundle of broadband-centric features that people with high-speed access can purchase for a monthly fee. AOL and MSN have priced their services at $14.95 and $9.95, respectively.
[February 10, 2003, 8:38]
New .Net tools released as push continues
News The company said its Visual Studio.Net development tool package is available to subscribers of its Microsoft Developer Network, a Web site and fee-based subscription service for developers using Microsoft's products.
[January 17, 2002, 12:06]
AOL unveils 7.0 as competition mounts
News Microsoft, meanwhile, has stuck with its $21.95 fee. But Microsoft said it believes MSN 7 is one step in the company's goal to integrate its Internet-based software with these consumer-oriented products.
[October 16, 2001, 15:38]
Jesse Berst: MSN takes another swing at Web
News New fee structure. Then it launched MSN version two as a series of hollywood-esque shows. First it launched MSN as a proprietary service. We attended Microsoft's MSN Day event yesterday, where company execs outlined an enormous new initiative...
[September 24, 1999, 9:57]
Timing's right for MS .Net
News Microsoft also offers a number of fee-based services on bCentral, such as its recently introduced Commerce Manager and Customer Manager, which are software applications available on a hosted, rental basis.
[March 15, 2001, 8:18]
Netscape deal to make AOL instant portal power
News With more than 14 million fee-paying users, AOL's business is far more lucrative than that of such free, Internet-based services as Yahoo! and Microsoft's MSN.com. Sun Microsystems Inc.based in Palo Alto, Calif.would also be involved in the deal...
[November 24, 1998, 11:51]
Taking on the Office gorilla, online
News ThinkFree is aimed mostly at consumers and students, but the company has plans to offer an online suite for the small and medium-sized business market later this year that would provide additional storage and other fee-based services.
[May 26, 2006, 14:05]
