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The Microsoft Network, or MSN, represents a collection of services brought about by the Microsoft Company. Microsoft initiated the Internet service range in 1995 together with the release of the Windows 95 operating system. While at the beginning it was just a simple online service for Windows 95, since then MSN has come up with more and more various and complex products. The same MSN brand had previously been used for the promotion of the Messenger and Hotmail services in the 1990s. Then, Microsoft started the reorganization of the MSN project in 2006, this time under the new name Windows Live. In spite of the changes, MSN.com, MSN’s Internet portal, is still widely used. Actually it occupies a 6th place on the list of the most popular Internet domain names.
As an Internet service provider, the MSN was designed as a dial-up online content provider. It used to provide proprietary content by relying on an artificial folder-like interface integrated into the Windows Explorer file management program of Windows 95. At the beginning, MSN offered discussion and product support as well as basic e-mail capabilities, chat rooms, and message boards that were somewhat like newsgroups, and information regarding news and weather. Although the WWW space could not be accessed directly through the MSN platform, in time Internet access could quickly be offered through the Internet Explorer web browser from Microsoft. The browser option could downloaded from the MSN service and was part of the Windows 95 package.
Just one year after its release, due to growing importance of and demand for the Internet, Microsoft saw themselves forced to come up with another version called MSN 2.0, after renaming its existing MSN service as MSN Classic. The new version combined access to the Internet with web-based multimedia content under the name MSN Program Viewer. In recent years, in the US and Canada, MSN is still a dial-up Internet service provider, yet it comes second after AOL. The MSN service is now accompanied by an e-mail account at MSN.com and security software – firewall, and anti-virus programs.
After the changes in 2006, many MSN services were renamed under the new brand name Windows Live. Among these services that suffered changes, MSN Groups, MSN messenger, MSN Hotmail, MSN Spaces, MSN Virtual Groups and MSN Alerts were included. With the release of Windows Live, new services were announced: Windows Live Favorites and Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner. At the same time, MSN started providing online entertainment and news as well as in its quality as a common interest content provider via the Internet portal, MSN.com. Windows Live provides most of the company’s online software and services.
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