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MSN.com Shuts Out Non-Microsoft Browsers
Talkback IS THIS WHY I CAN`T USE MY MSN BROWSER THAT CAME WITH MY COMPUTER?
[March 1, 2004, 18:53]
Microsoft Tunes MSN Music Site
News Microsoft has redesigned its MSN Music site, adding a feature that allows certain music files to be downloaded and shared. MSN will also offer a subscription service where people can buy music through streaming media or by download.
[February 26, 2002, 6:31]
Microsoft Bundles Security With MSN Broadband
Talkback "Customers of the MSN Plus and MSN dial-up services will have to pay separately for the security software". The client then is faced with additional charges, payable to a Microsoft subsidiary, that are related to gaining protection for a faulty...
[October 20, 2003, 9:50]
Microsoft Retools MSN Explorer
News Microsoft said it will introduce a new version of MSN Explorer, its Web client software, in the latest attempt by software giant to unseat AOL Time Warner for new media dominance. MSN Explorer includes the Internet Explorer Web browser, MSN...
[April 12, 2001, 15:30]
Microsoft Targets Swept-up Browser At Broadband Users
News But despite the changes, MSN Premium remains cosmetically similar to its previous incarnations and continues to be a splashier version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser. Microsoft plans to market MSN Premium to people already accessing...
[August 27, 2003, 11:54]
MSN Joins Net Music Skirmishes
News The new MSN Music service is modeled largely after services launched in the late 1990s, with a little of last year's recommendation services thrown in. But MSN is an extremely attractive option for the labels.
[April 4, 2001, 9:30]
Microsoft: We're Patching MSN Hole
News Microsoft is putting the final touches on a patch to limit an MSN Messenger feature that allowed any Web site to grab a visitor's IM nickname and buddy list. After Microsoft releases the fixed version, MSN Messenger users will receive notification...
[February 11, 2002, 12:31]
Windows Live Search About To Go Live
News Microsoft merged MSN with Windows last summer and announced plans in November to offer Web-based services under the Windows Live name. This is the second major chapter in our overall effort to drive innovation in search," Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice...
[March 8, 2006, 14:55]
Microsoft Forces IM Upgrades
News As of 15 October, users of Microsoft's free Web-based MSN Messenger and its Windows XP-based Windows Messenger will need to upgrade their software to a newer version or be shut out of the service, the software giant said on Wednesday.
[August 21, 2003, 12:00]
MSN Hosting '10 Percent Of Spammers' Sites'
News Spammers have started using Microsoft's MSN Spaces blogging service to host malicious content used during spam and virus onslaughts, Internet security firm SurfControl said. MSN Spaces, which was launched at the end of last year, is a free content...
[August 26, 2005, 10:25]
LookSmart Loses Its Largest Customer
News The loss of the MSN deal is a severe blow to LookSmart, given than Microsoft was its largest customer. Microsoft will not renew a contract to use LookSmart's Web search results on its MSN site, the search-technology provider announced on Monday.
[October 7, 2003, 13:10]
Apple Users To Get A Taste Of MSN
News Microsoft is finally taking the plunge on providing a Macintosh version of its MSN Internet service. Even though the new software is designed to offer many of the features in Microsoft's forthcoming MSN 8 for Windows, it will be a native Mac OS X...
[August 22, 2002, 9:11]
Handspring Shakes On Content Deal With MSN
News MSN is Microsoft's Web portal, offering content and services such as news, weather forecasts and e-mail. Both agreements are part of Microsoft's .Net strategy, which MSN Product Manager, Mark Wain, describes as an effort to make Microsoft's content...
[May 16, 2001, 8:22]
Microsoft Platform Tops Web 2.0 Developer Survey
News Microsoft's MSN/Windows Live Developer Program has topped the list of Web 2.0 development platforms as voted for in a recent users' choice survey — but not everyone is convinced Microsoft is the real winner.
[May 7, 2008, 8:09]
AOL And MSN Face Off Over Music Promotions
News AOL Time Warner's America Online and Microsoft's MSN Network are entering a battle of the bands as they increasingly turn to recording stars to promote their online services. In November, MSN launched a co-branded Internet service with pop group N...
[May 11, 2001, 9:27]
MSN Search Beta Builds Momentum
News Microsoft's MSN is slowly turning up the dial on its Web search beta, sending more and more visitors home-baked results over results from partner Yahoo. The coming switch-over will be significant not only because Microsoft will no longer be reliant...
[January 17, 2005, 12:15]
Microsoft Prepares To Take On YouTube
News Microsoft's new Soapbox on MSN Video site takes on the popular site YouTube, which has become an online sensation for viral and homegrown user-generated video. Rob Bennett, general manager of entertainment and video services at Microsoft, said MSN...
[September 19, 2006, 8:35]
Microsoft Blog Service Sparks Censorship Dodging
News Boing Boing, a popular blog, reported on Friday morning that MSN Spaces is rejecting certain blog titles or URLs because they contain words that Microsoft has deemed inappropriate. MSN Spaces, Microsoft's new blogging service, has sparked a new...
[December 3, 2004, 17:00]
MSN Turns Users Into Spammers
News The catch is, the spam was written by Microsoft and attached to change-of-address emails sent by some users who have signed up for MSN Explorer. MSN Explorer is Microsoft's attempt to create an integrated Internet portal that will lure new users to...
[September 27, 2000, 8:15]
Messenger Woes Cast Cloud Over Hailstorm
News A partial outage of Microsoft's MSN Messenger service, now in its eighth day, is casting a shadow over a wide-ranging services strategy that Microsoft hopes will be its future. But the MSN Messenger problem is the latest in a history of security...
[July 10, 2001, 9:42]
