MSN Butterfly to Flutter Its Wings for Charity
MSN is sponsoring "Under the Butterfly," a pilot program geared toward helping boys and girls across America while guiding customers to unique content across MSN channels.
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14.6.2006 Microsoft says goodbye to the Butterfly Program
Who remembers the MSN Butterfly community? For those of you who don't know, the program was renamed a few years ago to the Windows Live Butterfly Community. Today Microsoft officially announced that it will be closing the program, which had about ~150 members.
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2.7.2009 MSN Wallpaper Manager from Windows Live Download
Many users love to have high quality beautiful wallpapers on their desktop and often we get bore with old wallpapers and we need to search and download more wallpapers from internet. It’s not easy to get such high quality wallpapers.
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21.7.2009 MSN to Relaunch as MSN Media Network?
The LiveSide folks are reporting that MSN is looking to relaunch itself as the MSN Media Network. We figured the MSN team would have to do some kind of rebranding, given that most of their properties are now operating under the "Live," rather than the MSN banner. LiveSide says the MSNers are looking to expand their franchises to include
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7.2.2006 MSN (may) becomes the MSN Media Network
Several sources have indicated to us that MSN plans to relaunch itself as the MSN Media Network, whilst at the same time expanding its range of interactive and content rich services. As well as continuing to deliver content through MSN.com and MSN Music, the MSN Video team is evolving to include Movies and TV. Both these sites have already been revamped at the end of last year and feature show times and reviews as well as the latest entertainment news.
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8.2.2006 MSN UK moves
After ten years at msn.co.uk, MSN has today changed its UK domain name to uk.msn.com, in an effort to make their site more accessible to users and increase loading efficiency. Consumers who use several MSN UK services such as Hotmail and MSN Messenger will benefit from easier transition across services without having to log in every time they move to another area of the site.
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6.12.2005 MSN Messenger 7.5.0324
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8.2.2006 MSN Search Spoof
MSN Search celebrates April Fool's with the return of Spoof, the parody tool that uses fake (but hilariously accurate) search results to gently mock friends, bosses, or people who just need to be teased.
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2.4.2006 MSN search down for hours
According to Infoworld Microsoft's MSN search engine suffered an hours-long outage yesterday as results turned to errors.
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7.4.2006 Showusyourwow.msn.com is live
Microsoft launched a new site Show Us Your Wow moment. This is the next Vista looks like site launched as a promotion of Windows Vista.
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8.1.2007 MSN Search Toolbar with Antiphishing
MSN Search Toolbar includes Windows Desktop Search, so you can find anything on your PC - documents, e-mail messages. And three handy toolbars make it easy to search the Web or your PC, block annoying pop-up windows, automatically fill out web forms.
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MSN Answers a Million More Questions
The MSN Search group announced on its team blog last week that it has added "about a million" new Instant Answers (also known as "direct answers") to its service. The MSN folks are expanding MSN Instant Answer responses into new area, ranging from sports to weather to government officials.
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23.1.2006 Ex-MSNBC.com Head to Run MSN.com
Microsoft publicly announced Thursday that it had named John Nicol to head its MSN.com division, who pledged to push for increased investment and "and acquisitions if we need it," however he declined to be more specific.
Nicol had previously served as the head of MSNBC.com several years ago.
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12.2.2006 Microsoft to Rebrand Another MSN Property
Windows Live is part new services, part rebranded services. The latest MSN service slated to get the Live treatment is online shopping.
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19.3.2006 Microsoft Enhances MSN Spaces
Microsoft plans to give its MSN Spaces blog publishing and hosting service new social networking features, as well as support for the company's lightweight applications called Gadgets.
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7.6.2006 MSN Music Shutting Down For Zune
Microsoft has announced that its MSN Music service will be discontinued. The announcement comes a few days before the official US launch of Microsoft's Zune player and its associated Zune Marketplace.
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5.11.2006 How and why Microsoft is breathing new life into MSN
Until recently, when Microsoft execs have touted online services as key to the future of Microsoft, they've almost always meant Microsoft's "Live" services.
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8.12.2006 Vista Skins for MSN Messenger 8.1
Thanks to hwh1226 for this downloads. Here are some Wonderful Vista Skins for MSN Messenger 8.1.
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1.6.2007 MSN to Close Adult, Mature Groups
MSN plans to remove mature and adult rated communities from its MSN Groups service in late November. The groups would be moved to a third-party site, WorldGroups, which will handle all adult categorized groups for the service after the transition.
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Ballmer Beckons Users To MSN With Prizes
Lure 'em with prizes. It's an age-old marketing method, which is why some CEOs still swear by it. Steve Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft who is said to be renowned for swearing, probably knows this all too well.
In a three-month promotion called "Search and Win", MSN Search has announced it will give away prizes and charitable donations to people who punch in the right keywords to its search bar. More than 1,200 pre-identified monikers have been chosen for February and more will be added for March and April. Choose the right one, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) says, and potential loot includes a Target (nyse: TGT - news - people ) gift certificate, a Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) LCD TV, or for the particularly lucky-cum-benevolent, a $10,000 cash award to a charity of choice.
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16.2.2006 MSN Launches Beta of Soapbox Today
MSN today announced the U.S. beta release of Soapbox on MSN® Video, a user-uploaded video service that aims to rival YouTube.
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20.9.2006 MSN Premium releases 9.5 version, not dead yet
Much to our surprise, MSN released version 9.5 of MSN Explorer/MSN Internet Access to subscribers as an update on Friday. The release appears to fix a number of issues surrounding upgrades to Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Live Messenger.
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21.11.2006 MSN Soapbox reopens with copyright filtering
Today sees MSN Soapbox return to a public beta after having closed back in March. The reason given for the closure was that Microsoft needed time to deliver a technological solution to resolve the piracy issues that have plagued other user-generated video sites such as YouTube.
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2.7.2007 Microsoft launches new-look MSN for mobile phones
Microsoft Corp. launched a redesigned MSN portal optimized for mobile phones on Sunday, stepping up its offering at a time when more powerful devices increase the demand for richer content on handsets.
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18.6.2007 MSN.com Kicks Off Live Earth Promotions
Microsoft’s MSN.com is kicking off its sponsorship of the upcoming Live Earth concert series with a host of promotions, including earth-friendly premiums and sweepstakes.
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29.6.2007 New MSN Messenger Trojan Spreading Quickly
An MSN Messenger Trojan is growing a botnet by hundreds of infected PCs per hour.
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19.11.2007 MSN Direct to Be Killed Off on January 1, 2012
Microsoft has signed the death sentence of MSN Direct and is informing customers that they will be able to continue using the service for two years and a couple of months before it will be discontinued.
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28.10.2009 MSN Toolbar Roaming Favorites Beta Update
Hello Beta Team,
Quick note on the status of the Roaming Favorites Beta:
First, thank you for using and testing Roaming Favorites. The Beta Team is aware that at times this new product has been challenging to use . For this reason, we have selected highest level beta participants, the Butterflies, to be the first group to test Roaming Favorites.
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Microsoft backs down on MSN Search remake comment
Microsoft is backing away from a senior executive's comments earlier this week hyping the company's search engine remake.
Neil Holloway, Microsoft's president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, said Wednesday that "in six months' time we'll be more relevant in the U.S. marketplace than Google" The remarks, made at a conference sponsored by Reuters, stunned the search industry.
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6.3.2006 Seventh Annual MSN Strategic Account Summit
Two-day forum at Microsoft campus focuses on inventive approaches to connecting advertisers and consumers online; featured speakers include Jay-Z, Donny Deutsch and Sir Martin Sorrell.
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3.5.2006Microsoft says goodbye to the Butterfly Program
Who remembers the MSN Butterfly community? For those of you who don't know, the program was renamed a few years ago to the Windows Live Butterfly
Community. Today Microsoft officially announced that it will be closing the program, which had about 150 members. So what was the Windows Live
Butterfly Community? The program launched about 8 years ago and was designed to award the best beta testers who tested MSN products. Everyone who
actively participated in the program got the first dibs on beta testing MSN products. They received gifts from Microsoft as a token of their
appreciation, and even held a few "Butterfly Tours" of Microsoft's Redmond campus.
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02.07.2009Microsoft Adds Antiphishing to IE Toolbar
Add-ins to MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search available now.
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01.09.2005MSN Messenger 7.5.0324
Mess.be Has reported that John
Weis, Software Test Engineer
for MSN Messenger, posted an
update to the now official
7.5.0322 version on thier
forum.
Build
324 only includes a one-line
fix, but if you're still
having problems with 322
you're advised to try this
one.
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31.01.2006MSN Messenger 7.5.0324
(Official)
Ok, i'm sure a lot of you
remember the
article
a few weeks ago we covered on
the unofficial download of
build 0324 of messenger.
Well it seems now
that MS have decided to push
this build live for download
as the now-official release of
MSN Messenger 7.5.
We reccomend that
you update to this latest
build if you are getting
connection issues regarding to
signing in.
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08.02.2006MSN Launches Green Channel
Today MSN added a new channel to its online information and entertainment network called MSN Green a one-stop online resource for the latest
environmental news, exploring the issues and taking action. MSN has teamed up with some of the leading media and environmental sources, MSNBC, Hearst
Magazines (The Daily Green), Conservation International, Environmental Defense, Grist.org, TreeHugger.com and StopGlobalWarming.org, to offer the new
channel, located at
http://green.msn.com.
MSN Green will provide consumers
with environmental information, including articles developed by popular online publications and Web sites, along with multimedia, interactive features
and other content compiled from MSN Lifestyle, MSN Money, MSN Autos, MSN Travel, and the networks other information and entertainment channels.
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30.10.2007Microsoft to replace MSN Groups with Windows Live Groups
Microsoft has been planning to remove MSN Groups and re brand them with Windows Live since the introduction of Windows Live. Now it seems Windows Live
Groups will launch on November 17th, replacing MSN Groups, set to close on February 21, 2009.
In an email
from a Microsoft Technical Support spokesperson, it is advised that Microsoft will be launching a service named
multiply to migrate MSN Groups to Multiply so that they can be preserved after MSN
Groups is closed in February.
Jonathan Yaniv, a Microsoft Windows Live Butterfly, has been doing some
digging around the Microsoft Windows
Live internal sites. Yaniv has found that you can now apply
new
themes to groups, stop people from
using your Group in
Windows Live Messenger to chat and Microsoft has implemented a
mailing list feature for group emails and an option to ban known spammers.
Below is an example of the new Windows
Live Groups set to launch next month (courtesy of
Jonathan Yaniv).
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16.10.2008MSN Strikes New Entertainment
Deals
Microsoft's MSN division
inked two new content deals on
Wednesday, including an
agreement to rebroadcast the
Bob Marley Festival in Miami
as well as a deal with
Billboard to run a music site
on the MSN Latino service...
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23.02.2006MSN Music Shutting Down For Zune
Microsoft has announced that
its MSN Music service will be
discontinued. The announcement
comes a few days before the
official US launch of
Microsoft's Zune player and
its associated Zune
Marketplace.
"Beginning November 14th,
2006, MSN Music will no longer
offer music downloads through
the MSN Music store... On
November 14th, Microsoft will
launch Zune, our exciting new
digital media player. MSN will
partner with the Zune team to
make it simple for MSN Music
users to find and download
music from the new Zune
Marketplace. The Zune
Marketplace will enable you to
purchase tracks individually
or to buy a Zune Pass
subscription to download as
many songs as you want for a
flat fee."
People
with unredeemed credit (like
myself) can request a refund
for the unused amount on or
after November 14th. No word
if you'll be able to apply
unused credit towards music or
subscription packages on the
Zune Marketplace.
"You can redeem your song
certificate for MSN Music
downloads through November
13th. Starting November 14th,
you may request a refund for
the value of your promotional
pin or song certificate.
Instructions for how to
request a refund will be
posted here on November
14th."
Microsoft
will continue to support the
DRM files purchased through
the service after its
closure.
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03.11.2006MSN Opens Up adCenter Testing
in US
Microsoft's MSN division is
looking for testers to try out
its new adCenter product in
the United States through a
recently launched pilot
program. Yusuf Mehdi, senior
vice president of MSN, asked
employees last week to invite
businesses who might be
interested in the service...
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12.10.2005Windows Live Messenger Beta
Goes To The Masses
Microsoft has silently enabled
access to the latest Windows
Live Messenger Beta for all
passports.
This
means that from now on you
won't need an invitation in
order to be able to log
in.
We expect
the MSN pages to soon reflect
this news and market the WLM
Beta to all of their visitors
worldwide.
Together with this change,
version 8.0.0566 of the
Windows Live Messenger Beta
has been made available in a
multitude of extra languages
(as announced previously in
last week's Beta chat).
Below you will find
the English version and 3
popular multi-lingual versions
of WLM, to get the rest view
mess.be's original article by
clicking the source link at
the bottom of this
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20.03.2006Next Generation of Soapbox and MSN Video Betas Launched
The Next Generation of Soapbox and MSN Video
Betas Launched. Both MSN Video and
Soapbox on MSN Video Beta launched a next generation
version. The old
MSN Video will keep existing next to the new
MSN Video Beta.
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25.04.2008MSN to Relaunch as MSN Media
Network?
The LiveSide folks are
reporting that MSN is looking
to relaunch itself as the MSN
Media Network.
We figured the MSN team
would have to do some kind of
rebranding, given that most of
their properties are now
operating under the "Live,"
rather than the MSN banner.
LiveSide says
the MSNers are looking to
expand their franchises to
include more movie and TV
content, as well as some kind
of podcasting service.
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08.02.2006Microsoft unveils phishing
filter for MSN Toolbar
MSN today unveiled two new MSN
Search Toolbar Add-ins,
enabling people to customize
their toolbar to their
specific interests and
providing a smarter searching
and browsing experience. These
latest add-ins for MSN Search
Toolbar include a beta of the
Microsoft(R) Phishing Filter
Add-in, which helps protect
customers from potential risks
of phishing Web sites and
online identity theft, and the
Games Add-in, providing
one-click access to some of
the Web's most popular online
games via MSN
Games.
The
additional MSN Search Toolbar
Add-ins are part of MSN's
long-term commitment to
deliver services that enable
people to improve their
searching and browsing
experience. Add-ins are
available to download for free
http://addins.msn.com/]over
here.
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06.09.2005MSN Joins Yahoo to Build Book
Search
Microsoft's MSN division is
following in Google's
footsteps with plans to roll
out a book search next year.
But to avoid the same legal
troubles that have plagued its
rival, MSN will adopt an
opt-in policy while focusing
on books in the public domain
and other print material not
under copyrights...
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27.10.2005MSN Admits to Sharing Search
Data
Following news that Google
refused to comply with a
subpoena requiring the company
to turn over search records
from its database, much
speculation swirled about the
response from rivals MSN and
Yahoo. MSN has broken its
silence and now acknowledges
that it did share search data,
but no personal information...
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23.01.2006MSN customised page gets beta update
We havent mentioned MSN for a while, mainly due to all the Microsoft-Yahoo talk thats been going on. However a few days ago the My MSN customised
homepage launched a new beta version, available at
http://next.my.msn.com.
So whats new?
Well the most striking thing youll notice when comparing it to the
old site is that it now
features the new-style header UI. This includes the drop down menu linking users to all the other MSN sites, as well as offering access to the main
Live Search verticals straight from the page.
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04.07.2008Does Live.com Mean the End of
MSN?
One of the most frequently
asked questions following the
Windows Live launch on Tuesday
has been: "What happens to
MSN?" Microsoft executives
were quick to reassure that
the online brand will survive.
But with Messenger, Search,
Mail and more becoming Windows
Live services, what's left
for MSN?..
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02.11.2005MSN Enhances Spaces, Start.com
MSN has been busy making enhancements to some of its services based on the requests of its users. Two popular features of the service, Spaces and its new Start.com testbed, were tweaked to allow greater customization and mobility. MSN Spaces users can now change the default color scheme to their liking...
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14.08.2005MSN Begins Work on Modular Web Site
A visit to MSN..
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27.08.2005MSN, Associated Press Ink
Video Deal
The Associated Press is
preparing to roll out a video
news service early next year
and on Wednesday selected MSN
to stream the content and sell
advertising before each clip.
As part of the AP Online Video
Network, members will receive
a custom MSN player and up to
50 video clips per day...
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