MSN is coming to iOS and Android – Personal Computer Magazine

MSN comes in app form for iPhone, iPads and Android devices. Microsoft renames its Bing-consumer apps and gives the portal site has a new design.

The review of MSN.com adds interactive content for topics such as travel, food and health. This information sections are next to the famous pillars of the portal sites including news, sports, celebrities and cars. In addition, given the redesign, which goes live in beta today, options to use as MSN.com.

Skype embedded

These include the popular social media Facebook and Twitter, but also acquired by Microsoft Skype. The latter is the Web client already integrated with Microsoft’s online services such as cloud storage OneDrive and related SaaS (software as a service) Office Online. The revised portal site should be fully rolled out in late September reports tech news site Recode .

It takes a little longer before Microsoft are current consumer apps ready has for iOS and Android. This designed for touch apps already exist for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 and still qualify for the Bing brand. They are renamed MSN apps and get into shape optimized for mobile platforms from Apple and Google, respectively. This should be done in the coming months, manages to reveal. Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley

and MSN Messenger

The old brand MSN (MicroSoft Network) still enjoys worldwide fame. This partly due to the ever popular and been deleted chat client MSN Messenger (later renamed Windows Live Messenger). Its role was taken over by Skype. Microsoft boasts 437 million visitors to the MSN portal site, which is the default home page in Internet Explorer browser.

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