Msn 2.0
By Lian Maksin

Published by: Children Trundle. The Microsoft Network, or MSN, is a collection of services provided by the Microsoft Company. This range of Internet services started on August 24, 1995 as an online service and Internet service provider, at the same time when the Windows 95 operating system was released. In time more and more products have been added to the group just as the Windows OS got improved progressively. The brand name was used by Microsoft to put on the market a number of popular web-based services in the 1990s, such as Hotmail and Messenger. Then, Microsoft started the reorganization of the project in 2006, this time under the new name Windows Live. In spite of the alterations, MSN.com, MSN's Internet portal, maintained its popularity. Actually it is the 6th most visited domain name on the Internet.
As an Internet service provider, the was designed as a dial-up online content provider.
It used to supply proprietary content via an artificial folder-like interface built in the Windows 95 interface linked to the Windows Explorer file management.
The most common of capabilities provided by the first form of the included email service, chat rooms, newsgroups, weather info, product support and discussion. Although originally the open access to the World Wide Web was not included in its service, in time Internet access became part of the service provided by Microsoft

through its web browser, Internet Explorer. The browser option could downloaded from the service and was part of the Windows 95 package.
Just one year after its release, due to growing importance of and demand for the Internet, Microsoft saw themselves forced to come up with another version called 2.0, after renaming its existing service as Classic.
Besides Internet access, this updated version brought web-based multimedia content known as Program Viewer. In the United States and Canada, has been maintained as a dial up Internet provider, yet it is not as significant as AOL. The service is now accompanied by an e-mail account at MSN.com and security software - firewall, and anti-virus programs.
After the changes in 2006, many services were renamed under the new brand name Windows Live. Among these services that suffered changes, Hotmail (now Windows Live Hotmail), Messenger, Search, (now Live Search), Virtual Earth (now Live Search Maps), Spaces, Alerts and Groups were included. Once Windows Live was released, new services were announced: Windows Live Favorites and Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner. At the same time, switched to online news and entertainment as well as in the form of a common interest content provider via the Internet portal, MSN.com. The software and the services that support belong in fact to Windows Live.
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