Microsoft Axes MSN for Mac OS X

Ouch!

Published on March 13, 2005 By Frogboy In WinCustomize News

Microsoft announced yesterday that they are planning to kill access to the MSN Service via MSN for Mac OS X software from May 31st onwards.

In a statement to customers and press, Microsoft is advising customers to "access MSN services and features with their preferred browser and by setting up a My MSN page as a portal to their favorite online destinations." Customers will still be able to use the MSN Messenger service but will be unable to use MSN Explorer for Mac OS X. It's not clear what prompted this action but it's widely thought that the MSN Service isn't that popular on the Mac platform.

For months users have been protesting against MSN for their lack of support for MSN software on Mac OS X. This latest move will likely be a knock to MSN software and support for the Mac and may lead to further announcements.

(hat tip to Neowin.net).

Comments

harrison1701

on Mar 14, 2005

Does anyone use MSN explorer anyway? It's always the first thing I uninstall, after installing windows.
Lucky Macs

Thomas Thomassen

on Mar 14, 2005

MSN explorer came preinstalled with your windows installation?

kona0197

on Mar 14, 2005

All XP installations come with MSN explorer from my experience.

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