Microsoft to roll out new MSN Explorer
Microsoft Corp. will release an upgraded version of its MSN Explorer software
in the United States next week, an early incarnation of the company's expanding
Web initiative that includes a variety of new features and services.
MSN Explorer combines Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser with its e-mail
services, instant messaging and Internet shopping network. The software also
includes Microsoft's financial services Web site MoneyCentral and audio and
video services with Windows Media Player.
New additions, expected on Wednesday, will include a collapsible tool bar and
an automatic spell-check function for Hotmail users. Also, when the new software
is used in connection with its MSN Internet service, MSN Explorer will allow
users to write e-mail when not connected to the Internet and have access to
10M bytes of storage.
The Web-client software is intended to work closely with Microsoft's Internet
service, which the company said Wednesday now reaches 5 million users. The MSN
Explorer software has been picked up by 6 million, the company said.
Microsoft is continually beefing up its Web and portal business responding
to growing pressure from rival AOL Time Warner Inc., whose Internet service
and portal software is used by more than 28 million people worldwide. Microsoft
has made a number of announcements related to its .NET initiative, a Web-based
operating system under development, and Hailstorm, software under development
that will further connect users to its Web services.
The company also recently spun the MSN Explorer development team into a unit
that heads up the Microsoft Windows operating system, according to a report
about the reorganization of divisions that was published Tuesday in The Wall
Street Journal.
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