15 Facts About MSN Dial-up

MSN Dial-up is an Internet service provider operated by Microsoft in the United States and formerly in several other countries.

For several years, MSN was the second largest dial-up ISP in the United States behind longtime leader AOL, but very few people in the U S still rely on dial-up.

Concept for MSN Dial-up was created by the Advanced Technology Group at Microsoft, headed by Nathan Myhrvold.

MSN Dial-up was included with Windows 95 installations and promoted through Windows and other Microsoft software released at the time.

MSN Dial-up Preview was filmed at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle and was formatted as a guided tour of a mock premiere event for the new MSN Dial-up.

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MSN Dial-up returned to the drawing board for its next MSN release.

In 1997, after abandoning the interactive multimedia format, the MSN Dial-up service was again refocused, this time as a more traditional Internet access service.

MSN Dial-up Explorer is similar to AOL Desktop, which has a built-in email client and provides access to content for AOL members.

MSN Dial-up Explorer provided a user interface for navigating one's @msn.

MSN Dial-up subscribers were upgraded to the standard version of Hotmail in 2008, but with additional storage capacity compared to free Hotmail users.

The user interface for MSN Dial-up Explorer matched the visual style of Windows XP and utilized relatively responsive animations that would not become commonplace in web browsers until HTML5 came along several years later.

The last free version of the MSN Dial-up software remained available for download for some time.

Subsequent releases of MSN Dial-up 11 included updated email functionality to maintain compatibility with Outlook.

Customers with high-speed broadband Internet access, 'MSN Dial-up Premium' is a subscription service provided by Microsoft that combines a number of different Internet services, along with firewall and anti-virus software provided by McAfee and Spy Sweeper, into a premium version of MSN Dial-up Explorer.

In 2007, Microsoft set up a research and development center for MSN Dial-up China, based in Shanghai's Zizhu Science Park, which hosts technical support for MSN Dial-up services.