16 Facts About MSN Explorer

MSN Explorer 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 Explorer was created by the Advanced Technology Group at Microsoft, headed by Nathan Myhrvold.

MSN Explorer was originally conceived as a subscription-based dial-up online service and proprietary content provider like America Online or CompuServe.

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

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MSN Explorer 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 Explorer.

MSN Explorer returned to the drawing board for its next MSN release.

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

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

MSN Explorer 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 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 Explorer software remained available for download for some time.

MSN Explorer 11 is the current version, which was released in April 2014 and offers compatibility with Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 11, adds tabbed browsing, and brings back a 'remember me' feature.

Subsequent releases of MSN Explorer 11 included updated email functionality to maintain compatibility with Outlook.

MSN Explorer for Mac OS X was a dial-up client interface to Microsoft's pay-for-access online services for Mac users.

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