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A 2001 Hotmail inbox layout embedded in Microsoft Outlook The old MSN Hotmail inbox from 2007. Hotmail was sold to Microsoft in December 1997 for a reported $400 million (~$705 million in 2023), and it joined the MSN group of services. [17] The sale had been preceded by a major incident in 1997 where all email was lost for 25% of mailboxes. [18]
In addition to its original MSN Dial-up service, Microsoft has 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notably Hotmail (later Outlook.com), Messenger (which was once synonymous with 'MSN' in Internet slang and has now been replaced by Skype), and its web search engine, which is now Bing, and several ...
Microsoft account, a user login service (previously MSN Passport) Outlook.com, a webmail and calendar service (previously MSN Hotmail and MSN Calendar) Windows Live, the umbrella name under which several MSN services were rebranded; Windows Live Messenger, an instant messaging client (previously MSN Messenger)
Building off Microsoft's Start.com experimental page, Live.com could be customized with Gadgets, mini-applications that could serve almost any purpose (e.g. mail readers, weather reports, slide shows, search, games, etc.). Some gadgets integrated with other Windows Live services, including Hotmail, Live Search, and Favorites.
MSN Groups was a website part of the MSN network that hosted online communities, and that contained Web pages, hosted images, and contained a message board.MSN Groups was shut down on February 21, 2009, as part of a migration of online applications and services to the Windows Live brand.
Windows Live Spaces was Microsoft's blogging platform and social network service.The site was originally released in early 2004 as MSN Spaces to compete with other social networking services, and re-launched in 2006 as a part of a shifting of community services away from the MSN brand.
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The service itself was known as MSN Messenger Service from 1999 to 2001, [1] at which time, Microsoft changed its name to .NET Messenger Service and began offering clients that no longer carried the "MSN" name, such as the Windows Messenger client included with Windows XP, which was originally intended to be a streamlined version of MSN ...