The news app of Microsoft it changes its name again. If in 2018 it changed from MSN News to Microsoft News, three years later we have another new name change: Microsoft Start.
This name change is due to Microsoft has completely redesigned the web version of its news portal, now offering the experience they already offered on mobile devices from the browser, and to make this change more widely known, its news service has a new name and a new logo.
This is Microsoft Start for Android
Microsoft Start wants to be our starting point today, with an app that wants show us the content that interests us the most and in a simple way. We are up against the rival of Google Discover.
If you’ve used Microsoft News on your mobile before, when updating the only two changes you’ll see will be that now the app is called Microsoft Start and his new icon
Your app will show us what’s new, with news, articles and the last minutes of topics that interest us. In the main view all the recommendations, which we can read using your tabbed browsing as if it were a browser, with private mode included in case we want the research data not to be saved on our device.
Microsoft Start allows us to configure our interests, say what news or media we like or dislike to improve recommendations, or save the news to read it later. It also allows us to explore all the novelties across the different categories.
Besides, Microsoft stars It also includes a news search engine and its own Google Lens to search for images, products or texts, with the options to copy or translate recognized texts with the camera of our mobiles, or from the gallery.
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