Microsoft Start: News & more

Microsoft Corporation

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About this app

Stay organized and productive with all your daily activities such as News, Messaging and more. Personalize your news feed and stay connected with the latest entertainment, sports, tech and science, lifestyles—even health and fitness trends.
Stay productive and connected with SMS handling and organization. Microsoft Start sorts your messages into categories to help you fight information overload.
Play games, browse wallpapers, find shopping deals, and earn Microsoft Rewards. Want to discover more with Microsoft Start? Install it now!
*Functions mentioned above not available in all markets, actual features and display contents may vary.

Key features
📰Connect with breaking world, national, and local news
Get custom daily updates on topics you follow.
Discover popular stories from hundreds of trusted sources.
Get easy access to more than 1,000 premium publishers.

💬 Efficient SMS messaging
Read, write, and send text messages directly from the app.
Organize your messages into helpful categories (Transactions, Promotions, Personal).
Use messages to share your favorite articles or nearby places and engage with others while using the app.

😊Stay up-to-date with fashion, fitness, and lifestyle trends.
Play thousands of mini-games with only one tap.
Find great deals, compare prices and get shopping deals.
Earning rewards by just searching, shopping, or playing with Microsoft Start.
Redeem your points for gift cards and more.

Ratings and reviews

Horrible, trying to copy features from other apps but they don't even work in their app. Lately they started "stealing" your money as you scan receipts but they never pay you but still use your data. Breaking their own TOS! Support does never reply with a helpful solution, just one copy paste message and then no more responses. It's always the same copy paste message. Seems to be a bot which uses different names. Don't use the scan receipt feature. You are getting scammed!

Once again, receipt scanning doesn't work. It's been fine for many months for me, then they "fix" something that isn't broken, & break it (it looks much different now, so they made a completely new UI that doesn't look like my phone camera anymore). What a horrible company. Microsoft is the only company i know that when they accidentally get something right they will do everything they can to destroy that something. Very inconsistent app, on it's best days.

If you're using this to get MS rewards points each day, don't bother. MS made some changes recently, it seems, and searches almost never register. If you want the full 100 points a day for doing mobile searches, prepare yourself to have to open the app 15 times over the course of the day and just hope that a search or two registers before they just suddenly stop. As far as news goes, it's fine. I'd rather use the default Google news or an app specifically for news.

What's new

Stay up to date with breaking news and stories tailored to your interests from thousands of premium sources. Plus, get quick access to daily tasks, such as searching the web, checking the weather, shopping for necessities, and more.