Editing MSN (section)

=== Microsoft Internet Start ===
[[File:MSN.com screenshot August 24, 1995.jpg|thumb|MSN.com on its initial launch day, August 24, 1995]]
[[File:Msncom-1996.png|thumb|MSN.com in October 1996, with the logo used from 1995 to 1998]]

From 1995 to 1998, the MSN.com domain was used by Microsoft primarily to promote MSN as an online service and Internet service provider. At the time, MSN.com also offered a custom start page and an Internet tutorial, but Microsoft's major [[web portal]] was known as "Microsoft Internet Start", and was located at [https://web.archive.org/web/19980127131339/http://home.microsoft.com/ home.microsoft.com].

Internet Start served as the default [[home page]] for Internet Explorer and offered basic information such as news, weather, sports, stocks, entertainment reports, links to other websites on the Internet, articles by Microsoft staff members, and software updates for Windows. Microsoft's [https://msnbc.com original news website] (now [[NBCNews.com]]) which launched in 1996, was also tied closely to the Internet Start portal.