Microsoft Start

Microsoft Start was a web portal that featured news headlines and articles that MSN editors chose. The app included sections for top stories, regional events, international events, politics, money, technology, entertainment, opinion, sports, and crime, along with other miscellaneous stories. The app was available for Android and iOS devices only; other users used its web version. Microsoft Start was the planned successor to Microsoft News and MSN, which are also available for Windows. With the release of Windows 11, however, Microsoft directly integrated news into Windows taskbar, and was later backported to Windows 10. Microsoft sends unsolicited "Start Daily" news bulletins to its Outlook mail customers unless they block or unsubscribe from the service. From November 2024, the Microsoft Start website and app were rebranded back to the MSN brand, ending Microsoft's attempts of rebranding MSN.