MSN made its debut with the release of Windows 95. MSN wasn't designed to give full internet access, so a year later Microsoft released the Internet Explorer web browser.
This logo was a 3-D ish and 2-D ish logo used from February, 2004 - September, 2006. Around the time when Windows Live Search was replacing MSN Search.
This is the longest-used and arguably most well-known MSN logo. Due to its wide use from 2000-2010 on many of Microsoft's products, it can still be found on certain webpages on some portals or within certain software, such as MSN Explorer. This logo is still even being used on the MSN member center website using the Windows XP interface. This logo can even still be found on Ninemsn!
2010-2014/2010-present (Secondary)
Brand New rated this logo the 2nd worst of 2010, after Bing, another Microsoft product. However, this logo is still being used for Ninemsn.
Halloween (31st October 2010)
Variant used for Windows 8 & Windows Phone users from 2012-2014.
MSN was launched on August 24th, 1995. It wasn't designed to give full internet access. In 1996, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 2.0 and MSN became a website starting off as a custom start page from 1995-1998.
There is not that much of a difference. In February, 2000, MSN got a new logo. But this layout is still the same from 1998. This layout was used from May, 1998 - November, 2001.
This layout is a little different from the one from November, 2001 - September, 2002. The difference is that the tabs that you see have a hallow glow. This layout was used from September, 2002 - February, 2004.
Notes: 1 Became independent before becoming a Sony Interactive Entertainment subsidiary in 2022 2 Were moved to work on other Microsoft Software departments 3 consolidated 4 Sold to Take-Two Interactive, later being defunct
Notes: 1 Became independent before becoming a Sony Interactive Entertainment subsidiary in 2022 2 Were moved to work on other Microsoft Software departments 3 consolidated 4 Sold to Take-Two Interactive, later being defunct
Notes: 1Nokia phone brand licensing was sold to Human Mobile Devices in 2016. The original Nokia company continues to exist. 2Developer Kit hardware was discontinued in 2023. Azure Kinect technologies continued to be licensed to its partners.