Microsoft Start is a

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and

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that features news headlines and articles that

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editors have chosen. The app includes sections for top stories, regional events, international events,

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, money, technology, entertainment, opinion, sports, and crime, along with other miscellaneous stories. The app is available for Android and

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devices only; other users must use its web version. Microsoft Start is the successor to Microsoft News and

, which are also available for Windows. With the release of

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, however, Microsoft directly integrated news into Windows taskbar.

Predecessor

Microsoft News (formerly MSN News and Bing News) is the predecessor of Microsoft Start. It has been included with

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, Windows 8.1, and

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. It is still available on the

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. It allows users to set their own favorite topics and sources, receive notifications of breaking news though alerts, filter preferred news sources, and alter font sizes to make articles easier to read. Originally, News included an

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feed, but that capability was removed; Microsoft currently only allows users to subscribe to specified news sources. News uses the live tile feature introduced in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. If a user clicks on the News Start menu tile when a particular story is shown, the user will see a link to that story at the top of the app when it launches.

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* News aggregators

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