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Microsoft Start: News & more

Microsoft Corporation
Trusted

5M

Downloads

116.5 MB

Size

7.0+

Android Version
22.2.400225602 (February 28, 2022) This is the latest version
4.4 (225077 Reviews)
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Description of Microsoft Start: News & more

Stay organized and productive with all your daily activities such as News, Rewards and more. Personalize your news feed and stay connected with the latest entertainment, sports, tech and science, lifestyles—even health and fitness trends.
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.

😊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.

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here reviews and ratings come from google play users.

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Steve Healey
Out of nowhere it stopped offering anything for receipts being scanned. No vague explanation even to say if its on pause or stopped. Just quit, while still promoting the feature. 😡 Now the app is repeatedly requiring me to vetify my account. EVERY time I click on something. My actions are not really any different than they were before, still use the same devices, and even changed my password when this problem first started & signed into the same devices with new password. NEEDS FIXED
Agent Tomcat
Absolute rubbish. It's slow, glitchy, and unreliable. Shortly after I started using this app, my Rewards account was permanently suspended because Microsoft registered the activity from this app as being a search automator. The Deals receipt scanner barely works properly most of the time, but I'm constantly having to restart the app to get it to function. The news presented is biased beyond belief, and I can't get rid of the junk. Don't bother with this unless you only plan to use Deals.
Roger Dong
Very bad experience, but it's consistent with the new Windows 10/11 news widget. News shown on the front page is determined by my physical location, although I have a VPN turned on and manually changed my language and location preference. It just won't work, my personal feed page is always empty, and my home page is always Chinese news. Microsoft, stop assuming you know me better than myself do, please. Just because I live in China doesn't mean I only read news in Chinese.
A Google user
It's the usual grinder of trending articles, with a nice interface and very little clutter. It feels like AMP but reads like an RSS reader (which is the only brilliant feature of this app). Microsoft account sync is convenient, and there aren't a lot of tedious settings to manage. The MSN-style clickbait ads are awful as always, and the feed isn't very customizable. Don't expect super-personalized news here. The ability to add more categories and sources would make this a nearly-perfect news app
Alex Littman
Frustrating app that has gone through many changes lately. You have categories for a reason, yet 1/2 the content in a category doesn't belong. Take for example "NFL", a large portion of the stories are college, a shooting near a high school, and high school. Some articles are not articles and instead links to some random podcast. Other articles track how often you view the sources content and then cuts you off. I'm finding myself using this app less and less because of those three reasons.
Jade Greene
While I've used this app for years as it was tailored to my interests, the most recent update ruins a majoe aspect of it for me. I previously had a widget for the app on my screen. Having headlines of various stories allowed me to see the news at a glance. It reminded me of how I used to look at the widgets on my lumia. The newest update removes the widget functionality and replaces it with a search bar for some awful reason. If this isnt addressed soon I'm probably switch to a different app.
Nathan Lennon
Honestly, it's still one of the better news aggregate apps I've ever used, although it's honestly fallen quite a bit from when it was the MSN News app. It's not as responsive or as easy to navigate, and the name is, um... *terrible* and not at all descriptive. I know it has other features now, but I've never had any interest in exploring them.
Thomas Motley
Smooth and easy to read. No overly intrusive ads. EDIT: From 5 stars to 1. An endless stream of "updates" (downdates?) have turned this once great app into a pos that I just uninstalled. Unbelievable example of "fixing" something that isn't broken. I might still use it if I could force stories to open in my default browser (or even Edge), but I can't. Why a company with a good standalone browser would force users to open stories in an ugly and extremely limited in-app browser is beyond me.
Brian Miller
Before today, each story was contained in the app itself. Today, every story you click on opens in a new tab and the ability to leave comments seems missing. Ads now show up and videos automatically play. I didn't even update the app until after these changes, thinking maybe the new version would fix things (it didn't). I'm not sure what has changed, but if this is the way the app behaves now, it's useless to me and it might be time to check the store for a new news app.
Kevin Pittman
Clicking the notification story does not take you to the story, it opens the app to the main screen. No reason for notifications if the story referenced can not be found. The app itself is good but would like to pick and choose from the notification panel which stories I want to enter. It would be nice to be able to read the story with an interesting title in the notifications. Update. Dropping a star. Made adjustments to following, keeps putting two back into the view that I don't want.
Thomas Wintringham
MS wants this to be some kind of all in one app but I don't think anyone wants that. UI is also confusing at first and then you get used to it, but it didn't feel consistent. Clicking on a news article from the home feed won't create a tab but clicking on the news icon will create a new tab. As others have stated, I don't want games, deals, or savings sections. Just go somewhere else for the news for now.
Jon Hayes
Very frustrated. Old app would accurately give me the news feeds I wanted, simple format. This new version is like bloatware. Lots of unwanted stuff. Hit an ad by mistake while scrolling, you end up in places you cannot get back from. Have to close the app and restart. I don't have time for this nonsense.
Paul Fox
My go-to news app, along with the NBC News app. Don't understand all the problems that people have been writing about recently. I've not experienced any of these issues. Yes like many websites, many of the ads are clickbait. So don't click on anything that says sponsored. I think this is a great app, and I've not seen all the story repetition or old story issues the people write about. I'm using the Android version and I think it works great.
A Google user
I like the idea of news from multiple news agencies, especially in our current political environment, you can't trust one article. News now is filled with opinions and a couple of chosen facts. I was hoping the variety of feeds would be one place to be more informed. However, I'v noticed microsoft is selective of which articles they are picking from the various news agencies. I don't want an app that tries to influence opinion one way or another, I want all stories and I'll form my own opinion
Lynn J
Bad layout. Very unorganized because it has both vertical and horizontal scroll. Bad layout. Users can't even read article headlines because the programmers overlaid the polling over the headlines. Too disorganized and frustrating for me to use. Worst design ever! While reading an article and approaching the end, the app flips to the next article so the reader never gets to read the last few paragraphs.
A Google user
Update 3/30/31 Have reinstalled, as the current graphics and layout work well for me, and I trust the content more than on other sites. Have learned to avoid any "Sponsored" segment, as it's just an annoying avalanche of ads. No content is worth that!!! This was my go-to news source since I got my first smartphone, but I recently uninstalled it. My eyes just don't enjoy reading small white print on a stark black background. What were they thinking??
A Google user
Pretty easy to set up and use. The articles have mostly been clear and easy to read. The app seems to get the content from the sites and shows it nearly on the app. It's free, there's a share function, good amount of topics, and dark mode. Biggest issue though, is the sponsored articles. The thumbnail and app layout makes the article look exactly like the rest of the actual news stuff. But the sponsored articles just open your default browser and sends you to a click bait article.
Michael Dwyer
This used to be an app that offered unfettered access to a wide range of good news sources. It had surprisingly good filtering options that would let you say, "I never want to see news from Fox again!" It's been slowly sliding evil, though. The advertising load has been creeping higher and higher. The latest Win 11 redesign has changed its name to Start for some reason...? This makes it's icon and title make NO sense at all on my home screen. It may be time to find another news app.

Latest Version

22.2.400225602

February 28, 2022
116.5 MB Size
Android 7.0+
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.
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Other versions

21.7.391012602

October 18, 2021
51.3 MB Size
Android 7.0+
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.
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21.2.390529606

June 03, 2021
44.3 MB Size
Android Varies with device
Enjoy the same trusted and personalized news from Microsoft—but now with a new look and added features. You can hide news sources you don't want to see, plus get quick access to weather, search, and more.
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Microsoft Start: News & more - APK Information

APK Version: 22.2.400225602
Package: com.microsoft.amp.apps.bingnews
Android compatability: 7.0+
Developer: Microsoft Corporation
Privacy Policy: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=248686
Name: Microsoft Start: News & more
Size: 116.5 MB
Downloads: 5M
Version: 22.2.400225602
Release Date: February 28, 2022
Package ID: com.microsoft.amp.apps.bingnews
Developer: Microsoft Corporation