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69-702: Microsoft Live Labs was a partnership between MSN and Microsoft Research that focused on applied research for Internet products and services at Microsoft . Live Labs was headed by Dr. Gary William Flake , who prior to joining Microsoft was a principal scientist at Yahoo! Research Lab and former head of research at the Web portal's Overture Services division. Live Labs' focus was on applied research and practical applications of computer science areas including natural language processing , machine learning , information retrieval , data mining , computational linguistics , distributed computing , etc. Microsoft Live Labs

138-432: A Microsoft account allows for personalized content to appear and to be synchronized across devices on the website and in the corresponding apps . The redesign of the website led to the closure of MSN's longtime personalized home page service 'My MSN', which was made up of customized RSS feeds , as the new website no longer supports user-specified RSS content. However, it added some customizability, allowing each category on

207-509: A blog post, this post could be tagged with their name, title, and the subject of the post. Tagging makes it easier for users of the intranet to find the content they are interested in. This will ultimately cause a ripple effect where users will also be generating ad hoc navigation and information flows. Corporate portals also offer customers and employees self-service opportunities. Search portals aggregate results from several search engines into one page. Users can find search portals specialized in

276-412: A central place for all of MSN's content. MSN Search (now Bing), a dedicated search engine , launched in 1999. The single sign-in service for Microsoft's online services, Microsoft Passport (now Microsoft account ), also launched across all MSN services in 1999. The MSN.com portal and related group of services under the 'MSN' umbrella remained largely the same in the early 2000s. The sports section of

345-414: A completely rewritten and redesigned MSN website, making use of the company's modern design language , on September 30, 2014. The new MSN portal features a new version of the logo that follows a style similar to other current Microsoft products. The website no longer offers original content, instead of employing editors to repurpose existing content from partners at popular and trusted organizations. Much of

414-426: A more fluid user experience for connecting users spanning multiple domains during a given "session". Cloud portals like Nubifer Cloud Portal show what is possible using Enterprise Mashup and Web Service integration approaches to building cloud portals. A number of portals have come about which are specific to a particular domain, offering access to related companies and services; a prime example of this trend would be

483-520: A new brand name that Microsoft championed at the time, Windows Live. This move was part of Microsoft's strategy to improve its online offerings using the Windows brand name. The company also overhauled its online software and services due to increasing competition from rivals such as Yahoo! and Google . The new name was introduced one service at a time. The group of Windows Live services used Web 2.0 technology to offer features and functionality through

552-544: A new search identity. In 2009, there were allegations that Bing Travel had copied its layouts from Kayak.com ; Microsoft denied the allegations. By January 2013, Bing Travel results were powered by Kayak.com. As of January 2014, the fare prediction feature had been removed. As of May 2015, Microsoft rebranded the service to MSN Travel . In August 2015, MSN Travel flight search pages changed from being powered by Kayak.com to its competitor Skyscanner . Microsoft first offered content from its MSN web portal on mobile devices in

621-575: A new version of the MSN.com home page on October 26, exclusively for Windows 8 , saying that the new version would be "clean, simple, and built for touch". Microsoft said it would be more app-like due to the speed of Internet Explorer 10 . More new features included 'Flip Ahead', which allowed users to swipe from one article to the next. MSN for Windows 8 also had new deals with the AP and Reuters . Many of MSN's services were reorganized in 2005 and 2006 under

690-462: A new web portal named Microsoft Internet Start and set it as the first default home page of Internet Explorer , its web browser . In 1998, Microsoft renamed and moved this web portal to the domain name www.msn.com , where it has remained. 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

759-494: A number of different sources and may run on a non-standard local Web server. In addition, business portals can be designed for sharing and collaboration in workplaces. A further business-driven requirement of portals is that the content be presented on multiple platforms such as personal computers , laptops, tablet computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), cell phones and smartphones . Information, news, and updates are examples of content that could be delivered through such

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828-612: A part of America Online , the Walt Disney Company launched Go.com . Portal metaphors are widely used by public library sites for borrowers using a login as users and by university intranets for students and for faculty. Vertical markets remain for independent software vendors ( ISVs ) offering management and executive intranet "dashboards" for corporations and government agencies in areas such as governance, risk management, and compliance Web portals are sometimes classified as horizontal or vertical . A horizontal portal

897-610: A part of the MSN family without transitioning to Windows Live. Following the launch of Windows Live, the MSN brand took on a different focus. MSN became primarily an online content provider of news, entertainment, and common interest topics through its web portal, MSN.com, while Windows Live provided most of Microsoft's online software and services. In 2012, Microsoft began to phase out the Windows Live brand, referring to each service separately by its individual brand name without any 'Windows' prefix or association. Microsoft launched

966-406: A personal shopping list that synchronizes across devices and the web, and a wine encyclopedia that contains information on over 1.5   million bottles of wine , over 3.3   million tasting notes , and hundreds of cocktail recipes. Users can control the app hands-free, add their own recipes from physical cookbooks or personal recipes by snapping a photo, add notes to recipes, and sort

1035-443: A point of access to invisible Web cultural content that may not be indexed by standard search engines. Digitised collections can include scans or digital photos of books, artworks, photography, journals, newspapers, maps, diaries and letters and digital files of music, sound recordings, films, and archived websites as well as the descriptive metadata associated with each type of cultural work (e.g., metadata provides information about

1104-608: A portal. Personal portals can be related to any specific topic such as providing friends information on a social network or providing links to outside content that may help others beyond the reach of services. Portals are not limited to simply providing links. Outside of business intranet user, very often simpler portals become replaced with richer mashup designs. Within enterprises, early portals were often replaced by much more powerful "dashboard" designs. Some also have relied on newer protocols such as some version of RSS aggregation and may or may not involve some degree of Web harvesting. At

1173-596: A premium to access it. As many former MSN properties were spun off to Bing , Windows Live , and other successors in the late 2000s, the Microsoft Mobile Services division took over the development of mobile apps related to those services. In the meantime, Microsoft's MSN apps took on a more content-related focus, as did the web portal itself. Previous versions of MSN apps that were bundled with Windows Mobile and early versions of Windows Phone , as well as MSN apps for Android and iOS devices in

1242-482: A product, for example property search portals. Library search portals are also known as discovery interfaces. Property search portals aggregate data about properties for sale or rent by real estate agents or vendors. Notable agent search portals in the UK include Nestoria , Nuroa , OnTheMarket , Rightmove and Zoopla . Notable vendor (seller or landlord) portals in the UK include OpenRent and Gumtree . A tender portal

1311-607: A user's current location or any other location worldwide, and it allows users to define their favorite places, which will synchronize back to the Microsoft Start and across devices. Users can pin Weather tiles to the Start menu to see local weather conditions from multiple locations at a glance. It also offers satellite maps and has information regarding ski resorts . The app receives its weather conditions and forecasts from

1380-586: A variety of sources internationally. Weather uses weather conditions as the background, making it the only app that does not have a light/dark switch in Windows 10. Weather is not available for iOS; however, it comes preinstalled on the Nokia 215 phone from Microsoft Mobile that runs Series 30+ ; it is currently the only feature phone to have the app built-in. MSN Money (originally MoneyCentral , then MSN Moneycentral , before being rebranded as MSN Money in

1449-416: A way for enterprises and organizations to provide a consistent " look and feel " with access control and procedures for multiple applications and databases, which otherwise would have been different web entities at various URLs . The features available may be restricted by whether access is by an authorized and authenticated user (employee, member) or an anonymous website visitor. The term "portal" emerged in

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1518-650: A web browser that were traditionally only available through dedicated software programs. Some of the MSN services affected by the rebranding included MSN Hotmail , which became Windows Live Hotmail (now Outlook.com ); MSN Messenger , which became Windows Live Messenger (now integrated into Skype ); MSN Search , which became Live Search (now known as Bing); MSN Virtual Earth , which became Live Search Maps (now Bing Maps ); MSN Spaces , which became Windows Live Spaces ; MSN Alerts , which became Windows Live Alerts ; and MSN Groups , which became Windows Live Groups . Some other services, such as MSN Direct , remained

1587-404: Is a web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices , provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, alongside the release of Windows 95 . The Microsoft Network was initially a subscription-based dial-up online service that later became an Internet service provider named MSN Dial-up . At the same time, the company launched

1656-411: Is a Bing intelligence AI curated webpage for the growing esports industry. Users can watch integrated streams from YouTube or Twitch. Microsoft's advanced AI called "Watch For", the algorithm originally made for Microsoft's Mixer is an artificial intelligence that uses computer vision algorithms on livestreams so that it can alert the viewer of significant moments. This algorithm is implemented in

1725-481: Is a Web Page at a Website on the World Wide Web or a local HTML home page including JavaScript and perhaps running in a modified Web browser . A personal portal typically provides personalized capabilities to its visitors or its local user, providing a pathway to other content. It may be designed to use distributed applications , different numbers and types of middleware and hardware to provide services from

1794-428: Is a gateway for government suppliers to bid on providing goods and services. Tender portals allow users to search, modify, submit, review and archive data in order to provide a complete online tendering process. Using online tendering, bidders can do any of the following: Hosted Web portals gained popularity and a number of companies began offering them as a hosted service. The hosted portal market fundamentally changed

1863-451: Is an online gallery, index and search engine for news published online. It may cater to specific interest or language or target a wider market. A web portal is a website that provides a broad array of services, such as search engines , e-mail , online shopping , and forums . American web portals included Pathfinder , Excite , Netscape 's Net Center, Go , NBC , MSN , Lycos , Voila, Yahoo! , and Google Search . A personal portal

1932-480: Is now MSN Autos; and the Internet Gaming Zone, a website offering online casual games , is now MSN Games . Other websites since divested by Microsoft include the travel website Expedia , the online magazine Slate , and the local event and city search website Sidewalk.com . In the late 1990s, Microsoft collaborated with many other service providers, as well as other Microsoft departments, to expand

2001-599: Is used as a platform to several companies in the same economic sector or to the same type of manufacturers or distributors. A vertical portal (also known as a "vortal") is a specialized entry point to a specific market or industry niche, subject area, or interest. Some vertical portals are known as "vertical information portals" (VIPs). VIPs provide news, editorial content, digital publications, and e-commerce capabilities. In contrast to traditional vertical portals, VIPs also provide dynamic multimedia applications including social networking, video posting, and blogging. A news portal

2070-485: The Business Mashups concept of delivering a variety of information, tools, applications and access points through a single mechanism. With the increase in user-generated content (blog posts, comments, photos), disparate data silos, and file formats, information architects and taxonomists will be required to allow users the ability to tag (classify) the data or content. For example, if a vice-president makes

2139-593: The Microsoft HealthVault , but it started using a Microsoft account with MSN's own cloud service to synchronize data when it was rebranded from Bing to MSN. The app is not related in any way to Microsoft's Xbox Fitness or Microsoft Health (the companion app for the Microsoft Band ), despite being similar in function. MSN Sports (originally named Bing Sports ) displayed various sports scores and standings from hundreds of leagues around

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2208-681: The Internet, articles by Microsoft staff members, and software updates for Windows. Microsoft's original news website (now NBCNews.com ) which launched in 1996, was also tied closely to the Internet Start portal. In 1998, the largely underutilized 'MSN.com' domain name was combined with Microsoft Internet Start and reinvented as both a web portal and as the brand for a family of sites produced inside Microsoft's Interactive Media Group. The new website put MSN in direct competition with sites such as Yahoo! , Excite , and Go Network . Because

2277-483: The MSN Esports Hub. Users can also check the calendar for dates of upcoming e-sport events and tournaments or the news for updates on games and their tournament. After the creation of the MSN Esports Hub, Microsoft acquired Smash.gg; an e-sport tournament platform. MSN Food & Drink (originally named Bing Food & Drink ) is a discontinued recipe app that offers news related to foods and drinks,

2346-434: The MSN portal was ESPN.com from 2001 to 2004, and FoxSports.com from 2004 to 2014. MSN had an exclusive partnership with MSNBC.com for news content from 1996 until 2012, when Microsoft sold its remaining stake in msnbc.com to NBCUniversal and the website was renamed NBCNews.com . Since then, MSN has launched 'MSN News', an in-house news operation. As of May 2005, MSN.com was the second most visited portal website in

2415-500: The United States with a share of 23.2 percent, behind Yahoo! which held a majority. MSN released a preview of an updated home page and logo on November 3, 2009. It was originally expected to be widely available to over 100 million U.S. customers by early 2010. MSN rolled out the newer logo, together with a redesign of the overall website, on December 25, 2009. In 2012, MSN announced on its blog that it would be unveiling

2484-475: The application server. For early Web browsers permitting HTML frameset and iframe elements, diverse information could be presented without violating the browser same-source security policy (relied upon to prevent a variety of cross-site security breaches). More recent client-side technologies rely on JavaScript frameworks and libraries that rely on more recent Web functionality such as WebSockets and asynchronous callbacks using XMLHttpRequests . The server hosting

2553-453: The apps became available across all the other major mobile device platforms as well: iOS , Android , and Fire OS . The apps allow users a reasonable amount of freedom to decide which sources provide information. Each app has its own color code that is used on the live tile and internally. Originally, each app brought a unified experience with the MSN website and synchronized preferences across devices. There are currently four apps in

2622-539: The author, publisher, etc.). These portals are often based around a specific national or regional groupings of institutions. Notable cultural portals include: Corporate intranets became common during the 1990s. As intranets grew in size and complexity, organization webmasters were faced with increasing content and user management challenges. A consolidated view of company information was judged insufficient; users wanted personalization and customization. Webmasters, if skilled enough, were able to offer some capabilities, but for

2691-606: The composition of portals. In many ways they served simply as a tool for publishing information instead of the loftier goals of integrating legacy applications or presenting correlated data from distributed databases. The early hosted portal companies such as Hyperoffice.com or the now defunct InternetPortal.com focused on collaboration and scheduling in addition to the distribution of corporate data. As hosted Web portals have risen in popularity their feature set has grown to include hosted databases, document management, email, discussion fora and more. Hosted portals automatically personalize

2760-490: The content generated from their modules to provide a personalized experience to their users. In this regard they have remained true to the original goals of the earlier corporate Web portals. Emerging new classes of Internet portals called Cloud Portals are showcasing the power of API (Application Programming Interface) rich software systems leveraging SOA ( service-oriented architecture , Web services, and custom data exchange) to accommodate machine to machine interaction creating

2829-408: The crucial functions of the application. This application server is in turn connected to database servers, and may be part of a clustered server environment. High-capacity portal configurations may include load balancing strategies. For portals that present application functionality to the user, the portal server is in reality the front piece of a server configuration that includes some connectivity to

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2898-421: The early 2000s, through a service called Pocket MSN (in line with its Pocket PC products of the era) and later renamed MSN Mobile . The original MSN Mobile software was preloaded on many cell phones and PDAs , and usually provided access to legacy MSN services like blogs ( MSN Spaces ), email ( Hotmail ), instant messaging ( MSN Messenger ), and web search (now called Bing ). Some wireless carriers charged

2967-500: The early 2010s, were primarily repositories for news articles found on MSN.com. Other earlier MSN mobile apps included versions of MSN Weather and MSN Money for Windows Mobile 6.5 , MSN Money Stocks, and a men's magazine called 'MSN OnIt' for Windows Phone 7 . Microsoft's world headquarters is in the United States, so the main MSN website is based there. However, MSN has offered various international versions of its portal since its inception in 1995 for dozens of countries around

3036-600: The end of the dot-com boom in the 1990s, many governments had already committed to creating government web portal sites for their citizens. These included primary portals to the governments as well as portals developed for specific branches (e.g., a particular government ministry, department or agency), or for specific sub-audiences (e.g., senior citizens, parents, post-secondary students, etc.). Notable government web portals include: Cultural portals aggregate digitised cultural collections of galleries, libraries (see: library portal ), archives and museums. This type of portal provides

3105-415: The existing content on MSN was eliminated as the website was simplified into a new home page and categories, some of which have corresponding apps : The top of the home page provides access to Microsoft services Bing , Outlook.com , Skype , Office Online , OneNote , OneDrive , Bing Maps , and Groove Music , as well as popular social media services Facebook and Twitter . Signing into MSN with

3174-482: The growth in property portals that give access to services such as estate agents , removal firm , and solicitors that offer conveyancing . Along the same lines, industry-specific news and information portals have appeared, such as the clinical trials-specific portal . The main concept is to present the user with a single Web page that brings together or aggregates content from a number of other systems or servers. The application server or architecture performs most of

3243-402: The home page to be reordered or hidden. With the 2014 relaunch, MSN now supports responsive design and eliminates the need for a separate mobile website . The redesign of MSN proved positive and helped increase traffic with an additional 10 million daily visitors after two months. In 2022, Microsoft began phasing out MSN for Microsoft Start, with news pages being moved to Start, and ads for

3312-444: The interoperability of portlets across different portal platforms. These standards allow portal developers, administrators and consumers to integrate standards-based portals and portlets across a variety of vendor solutions. The concept of content aggregation seems to still gain momentum and portal solution will likely continue to evolve significantly over the next few years. The Gartner Group predicts generation 8 portals to expand on

3381-479: The late 1990s to describe a new genre of website. After the proliferation of Web browsers in the late-1990s, many companies tried to build or acquire a portal to attempt to obtain a share of an Internet market. The Web portal gained special attention because it was, for many users, the starting point of their Web browsing if it was set as their home page . The content and branding of a portal could change as Internet companies merged or were acquired. Netscape became

3450-512: The mid-2000s - prior to being relaunched as a spin-off of Bing Finance ) allows users to set up lists of publicly listed companies to watch, follow certain corporations and receive stock updates, get the latest headlines regarding international markets, view real-time trading figures with a 30-minute delay, track their own personal finances , calculate mortgages , get information on bonds and other financial assets, and convert currency . MSN Esports (often referred to as MSN Esports Hub )

3519-602: The most part ended up driving users away from using the intranet. Many companies began to offer tools to help webmasters manage their data, applications and information more easily, and by providing different users with personalized views. Portal solutions can also include workflow management, collaboration between work groups or branches, and policy-managed content publication. Most can allow internal and external access to specific corporate information using secure authentication or single sign-on . JSR168 Standards emerged around 2001. Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 standards allow

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3588-516: The new format opened up MSN's content to the world for free, the Internet service provider and subscription service were renamed to MSN Internet Access at that time. (That service eventually became known as MSN Dial-up.) The relaunched MSN.com contained a whole family of sites, including original content, channels that were carried over from 'web shows' that were part of Microsoft's MSN 2.0 experiment with its Internet service provider in 1996–97, and new features that were rapidly added. MSN.com became

3657-746: The only supported model was the Nokia 215 . In addition to these apps, Microsoft developed a separate set of mobile apps specifically for MSN China . Microsoft Start (previously named Microsoft News ) was a news aggregator and service that featured news headlines and articles chosen by editors. The app includes sections for top stories, U.S., world, money, technology, entertainment, opinion, sports, and crime, along with other miscellaneous stories. It allows users to set their own personalized favorite topics and sources, receive notifications of breaking news through alerts, filter preferred news sources, and alter font sizes to make articles easier to read. Originally, Start included an RSS feed, but that capability

3726-403: The portal may only be a "pass through" for the user. By use of portlets , application functionality can be presented in any number of portal pages. For the most part, this architecture is transparent to the user. In such a design, security and concurrent user capacity can be important issues, and security designers need to ensure that only authenticated and authorized users can generate requests to

3795-473: The range of MSN's services. Some examples include MSN adCenter , MSN Shopping (affiliated with eBay , PriceGrabber and Shopping.com ), and the Encarta encyclopedia with various levels of access to information. Since then, MSN.com has remained a popular destination, launching many new services and content sites. MSN's Hotmail and Messenger services were promoted from the MSN.com portal, which provided

3864-680: The recipes into collections. The app also collects information from famous chefs and lists them according to their style of cuisine. MSN Health & Fitness (originally named Bing Health & Fitness ) allowed users to track their intake of calories , look up nutritional information for hundreds of thousands of different foods, use a built-in GPS tracker, view step-by-step workouts and exercises with images and videos, check symptoms for various health conditions, and synchronize their health data to third-party devices such as activity trackers . MSN Health & Fitness formerly connected data with

3933-443: The successor to the default Internet Explorer start page, as all of the previous 'Microsoft Internet Start' website was merged with MSN.com. Some of the original websites that Microsoft launched during that era remain active in some form today. Microsoft Investor, a business news and investments service that was once produced in conjunction with CNBC , is now MSN Money; CarPoint, an automobile comparison and shopping service,

4002-507: The suite: Start (previously News), Weather, Sports, and Money. In July 2015, Microsoft announced the discontinuation of the Food & Drink, Health & Fitness, and Travel apps on all platforms, and that they will not be bundled with Windows 10 ; those three apps are no longer offered. After Microsoft 's acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone division , Microsoft also started bundling MSN services with its Nokia-branded feature phones , though

4071-508: The user is signed in, Cortana can track flights and get hotel information through the app. MSN Travel was the only app in the suite that was exclusive to Windows. The app was discontinued in September 2015 but can still be accessed via the web. Previously, Microsoft had acquired Farecast in 2008, a website in the computer reservations system industry that offered predictions regarding the best time to purchase airline tickets. Farecast

4140-674: The venture in 2013 and ended its co-branding with Nine in 2016); and MSN China , an entirely customized version of MSN for China (Microsoft discontinued the portal in 2016, replacing it with a page that links to a number of other Chinese websites). Web portal A portal may use a search engine's application programming interface (API) to permit users to search intranet content as opposed to extranet content by restricting which domains may be searched. Apart from this common search engines feature, web portals may offer other services such as e-mail , news, stock quotes, information from databases and even entertainment content. Portals provide

4209-735: The website appearing on the homepage. This was reversed in November 2024, with the Microsoft Start page redirecting back to MSN. Microsoft brought back the MSN app in November 2024. The MSN web-based apps provides users information from sources that publish to MSN. Microsoft launched these apps along with the 2014 redesign of the MSN web portal, rebranding many of the Bing apps that originally shipped with Windows and Windows Phone . News, Weather, Sports, Money, and Travel first shipped with Windows 8 , while Health & Fitness and Food & Drink first appeared in Windows 8.1 . In December 2014,

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4278-468: The world, as well as aggregated sports-related articles and news headlines. Sports also allowed the user to view slideshows and photo galleries, look up information about individual players and fantasy leagues , and set and track their favorite teams by selecting various topics from the hamburger menu. It also powered various predictive features within Microsoft's Cortana virtual assistant . It

4347-539: The world. From 1995 to 1998, the MSN.com domain was used by Microsoft primarily to promote MSN as an online service and Internet service provider. At the time, MSN.com also offered a custom start page and an Internet tutorial, but Microsoft's major web portal was known as "Microsoft Internet Start", and was located at home.microsoft.com . Internet Start served as the default home page for Internet Explorer and offered basic information such as news, weather, sports, stocks, entertainment reports, links to other websites on

4416-577: The world. A list of international MSN affiliates is available at MSN Worldwide. Following the redesign and relaunch of the MSN web portal in 2014, most international MSN websites share the same layout as the U.S. version and are largely indistinguishable from it, aside from their content. There were two exceptions: ninemsn , a longtime partnership between Microsoft and the Nine Network in Australia that launched in 1997 (Microsoft sold its stake in

4485-601: Was discontinued on July 20, 2021, in favor of the web portal. MSN Travel (originally named Bing Travel ) was a travel search engine that allows users to book hotels and flights , aggregates travel-related headlines, and offers detailed information about thousands of travel destinations. Data in the app is powered by various travel websites, including Expedia , formerly owned by Microsoft. Other features include finding information on local restaurants , viewing pictures (including panoramas ) and historical data about destinations, and reading reviews by previous travelers. If

4554-423: Was formed on January 24, 2006. On October 8, 2010, Microsoft announced the shutdown of Live Labs and the transition of its remaining team of 68 to Microsoft Bing . As a consequence Live Labs' original founder and leader Dr. Gary William Flake has resigned from Microsoft. The following table shows all of the projects that had been initiated by Microsoft Live Labs: MSN MSN (meaning Microsoft Network )

4623-454: Was founded in 2003 and collected over 175 billion airfare observations by 2007. Farecast's team of data miners used these airfare observations to build algorithms to predict future airfare price movements. Microsoft integrated it as part of its Live Search group of tools in May 2008 as Live Search Farecast ; Microsoft rebranded it as Bing Travel on June 3, 2009, as part of its efforts to create

4692-504: 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 other rebranded and discontinued services. The recent website and suite of apps offered by MSN was first introduced by Microsoft in 2014 as part of a complete redesign and relaunch. MSN is based in the United States and offers international versions of its portal for dozens of countries around

4761-518: Was removed; Microsoft currently only allows users to subscribe to specified news sources, thereby curating news. Start uses the chaseable live tile feature introduced in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update . If a user clicks on the Microsoft News Start menu tile when a particular story is shown, the user will see a link to that story at the top of the app when it launches. MSN Weather (originally named Bing Weather ) shows weather from

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