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MSN company history timeline

1996

Microsoft's original news website, https://msnbc.com (now NBCNews.com), which launched in 1996, was also tied closely to the Internet Start portal.

1998

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.

1999

MSN Search (now Bing), a dedicated search engine, launched in 1999.

2005

MSN Search is a service offered as part of the Microsoft network of web services, although it only developed its own search index at the start of 2005.

2006

They have also developed their own pay-per-click advertising service, rather than continue to share revenues with Overture (which is owned by Yahoo) and following initial testing, this launched in Spring 2006 with a range of new management functions not seen elsewhere.

2009

MSN released a preview of an updated home page and logo on November 3, 2009.

2010

MSN rolled out the newer logo, together with a redesign of the overall website, on December 25, 2009. It was originally expected to be widely available to over 100 million United States customers by early 2010.

2011

She succeeded former French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn and assumed responsibility on July 5, 2011.

2012

In 2012, MSN announced on its blog that it would be unveiling 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.

2014

With the 2014 relaunch, MSN now supports responsive design and eliminates the need for a separate mobile website.

2019

She held the office till 2019, before becoming the president of the European Central Bank.

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