MSN China
Chinese Internet portal
MSN China was a joint venture of the global software corporation Microsoft, part of its MSN service, located in the People's Republic of China. Unlike most other international versions of the MSN portal, which have used the same layout as the United States since 2014, MSN China utilized a unique design and had a separate editorial division.
In 2010 MSN China announced a partnership with Sina to integrate each other's services as a reaction towards one of mainland China's largest internet companies, Tencent.
In 2016 Microsoft announced that they would discontinue the MSN China website on June 7 in favor of Windows 10 services and would redirect their portal to a number of Chinese websites and their search engine, Bing. In 2018 the website was relaunced.
MSN Juku
In November 2009, MSN China launched an Internet application called MSN Juku in beta. Commentators described it as a "Twitter-style" microblogging service, although MSN China rejects that description. From the beginning, observers noted similarity between the MSN Juku user interface and that of established microblogging service Plurk, which was blocked in China in April 2009.
On December 14, 2009, the official Plurk blog posted an accusation that MSN China plagiarized about 80% of Plurk's original code, as well as elements of their CSS and unique user interface features. Microsoft stated in a press release that it looked into the accusations.
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