![]() MSN's Top Channels: News, Sports, Entertainment, Money, Autos, Living, msnNOW and Healthy living - optimized for touch We've reimagined MSN for your Windows Phone. Glance at the new MSN Live Tile to see top stories, before launching the app. Swipe through our top channels and when you're done reading an article, swipe to view the next article. Built for touch, you can navigate the new MSN with just your thumb. It would mix in well with its Surface line, especially the Surface Duo 2 smartphone, and nudges and winks could be resurrected as notifications and message effects, working across a bunch of devices and platforms.MSN for Windows Phone was rebuilt from the ground up to bring you a clean, simple and fast way to stay in the know. Yet this could just be the start of this new app. Having an app that takes the privacy of Apple, the design of Telegram, and the nostalgia of what Messenger was in 2002, could be a great draw for many. Its CEO, Satya Nadella, has always been a big proponent of having Windows as a service, and the same can apply here to MSN Messenger. As some emails have said from Craig Federighi, Senior Vice President (SVP) of software engineering at Apple, it would be one less reason for some users to switch from Android and Windows.īut this could be an opportunity for Windows. But for a new MSN Messenger in Windows 12 that’s pre-installed, just like Apple’s Messages app, there could be.Īpple has been digging its heels in about not allowing iMessage on Android and Windows, and for good reason. That’s a problem for those who want to use a new laptop or tablet to communicate right away - that ease and speed of use for messaging simply isn’t there in Windows. Try doing this in Windows 11, and you’ll have to try and log into Skype, or WhatsApp for desktop - but these both require you to download the apps first. When you first boot into an Apple device, whether that’s a Mac or an iPhone, you’re able to send a message to someone in less than five minutes. Nowadays, messaging apps are all around us, and while social media platforms seem to be either chronically mismanaged or drawing only boredom from existing users, it could be the perfect time when MSN Messenger is rebooted and relaunched as the main messaging app on Windows. But this only hastened its decline, and combined with MySpace, Facebook, and Bebo coming to the fore, it was discontinued in 2013. ![]() It was a rare time when Microsoft was ahead of the curve, and it would quickly bring in updates that came with more emojis, Nudges that would send screen-shaking popups to your conversational partners, and the ability to ‘Appear Offline’, so you could stay online but be invisible to others - as well as webcam support, a rarity in those days.īut of course, Microsoft 'did a Microsoft', and started rebranding the app with a different name in 2006 with ‘Windows Live Messenger’, alongside a new look. It was slowly changing from being something individuals used in a darkened room, to kids asking parents if they could use the family computer to talk to their friends. As this was before social media was even a thing (well, MySpace was trying), MSN Messenger was a big factor in changing perceptions of exactly what a PC was. ![]()
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