# MSN outage reports and status

Canonical page: https://iszdown.com/now/msn

Status: Website reachable in latest check

24-hour window (UTC): 2026-10-18T06:30:00.000Z to 2026-10-19T06:30:00.000Z

Recorded outage reports in this window: 0

Last successful estimated-activity check: No usable observation available

MSN is a web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, the same release date as Windows 95. The Microsoft Network was initially a subscription-based dial-up online service that later became an Internet service provider named MSN Dial-up. At the same time, the company launched a new web portal named Microsoft Internet Start and set it as the first default home page of Internet Explorer, its web browser. In 1998, Microsoft renamed and moved this web portal to the domain name www.msn.com, where it has remained. In addition to its original MSN Dial-up service, Microsoft has used the 'MSN' brand name for a wide variety of products and services over the years, notably Hotmail, Messenger, and its web search engine, which is now Bing, and several other rebranded and discontinued services.

## How to interpret this page

Estimated down reports are based on US Google Trends problem-intent searches. Values are relative activity from 0 to 100, not counts of submitted reports. The HTML chart averages samples into ten-minute intervals. Partial samples are excluded and missing samples are not invented.

Recorded outage reports and estimated activity are separate signals. Neither confirms that every user is affected. Missing or stale data does not establish that a service is working.

Methodology: https://iszdown.com/methodology

## Citation

Cite [MSN on Iszdown](https://iszdown.com/now/msn), include your access time and the observation time above, and qualify estimated activity as an estimate. Recheck before describing current status. Iszdown is independent of the monitored provider.

## Estimated activity samples

No usable Google Trends samples are available for this service in this window.

## Evidence and recovery

Website reachable in latest check. The public website responded; signed-in features and APIs were not tested.

No recent recovery can be established from available evidence.

## Website measurements

Successful sampled checks (24h): 100% (3/3). Restricted checks: 0. Median response: 44 ms. P95 response: 150 ms.

These are sampled public website checks from one US server, not continuous uptime or authenticated app/API tests. Missing data stays unknown.


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