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Previous versions of MSN apps that were bundled with Windows Mobile and early versions of Windows Phone, [79] as well as MSN apps for Android and iOS devices in the early 2010s, were primarily repositories for news articles found on MSN.com. [80] [81] [82] Other earlier MSN mobile apps included versions of MSN Weather and MSN Money for Windows ...
A suite of MSN apps (formerly Bing apps) that are included are: MSN Food and Drink, MSN Money (formerly Bing Finance), the Bing app (now defunct), MSN Weather, MSN Travel, and MSN Sports. Reader and Sound Recorder were added with the Windows 8.1 update, as well as an updated version of Fresh Paint.
[128] in 2014 Microsoft rebranded Bing's suite of mobile applications to the MSN brand renaming their Windows Phone and Windows Store clients from Bing to MSN, these new applications are MSN Money (formerly Bing Finance), MSN Weather, MSN News, MSN Sport, MSN Food & Drink, and MSN Health & Fitness (which absorbed MSN Healthy Living). [129]
Bing Mobile is built into Windows Mobile and Windows Phone as proprietary software, accessed via the Search key on Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 devices. It is also available on Windows Phone 8.1 (and integrated with Microsoft Cortana where available), and can be downloaded for other platforms, including Android.
Initially known as Windows Store, it started as an app store for Windows 8. In Windows 10, it expanded into a broad digital distribution platform for apps, games, music, digital video and e-books. In 2017, it was renamed Microsoft Store and started offering hardware in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Windows 8: MSN apps
Windows 10 was released with an updated version of the Windows Store, which merged Microsoft's other distribution platforms (Windows Marketplace, Windows Phone Store, Xbox Video and Xbox Music) into a unified store front for Windows 10 on all platforms, offering apps, games, music, film, TV series, [13] [14] themes, [15] and ebooks. [16]
The app was available for Android and iOS devices only; other users used its web version. [1] Microsoft Start was the planned successor to Microsoft News and MSN, which are also available for Windows. [2] With the release of Windows 11, however, Microsoft directly integrated news into Windows taskbar. [2] And was later backported to Windows 10
Windows 8.1 is a release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.It was released to manufacturing on August 27, 2013, and broadly released for retail sale on October 17, 2013, about a year after the retail release of its predecessor, and succeeded by Windows 10 on July 29, 2015.