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

This app needs a lot of improvement. Every time there's an update the app stops working. It will not load half the images on the page. On both of my android devices it will not load anything else until you uninstall it and reinstall it. I like the reward points, but you need to work on fixing the app. Also if you're reading an article, the app will go off the page while you're reading and go back to the homepage.

First off, it takes to long to get this app up and running just to read a story just to close it. The main reason it gets a 1 star however is because MSN has made it almost impossible to read their stories without the app on phones. Most of the time, the expand story option is not available and open app or download app is the only way to read it. Finally tired and done with it. I just wanted to read some stories, half the time MSN didn't even write the article. I am deleting after this review.

Probably the single worst-performing app on my device. Face it, we're just here for the points, but even that feature barely works. Sometimes you don't get points, sometimes you gotta resubmit receipts multiple times, and sometimes the entire app just stops giving any indiciation it's working at all. The built-in browser is always trying to take over and is a slow, lumbering pile of garbage. And to top it all off, it's a battery hog. It's also identical to the Bing app, so why does it exist?

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.