Microsoft giving up on Chinese Web portal

Microsoft is shutting down a Web portal it operates in China.

The MSN website, which provides news and lifestyle content as well as a search function, will be turned off June 7.

A Microsoft spokesman did not respond to questions about the reason behind closing the Chinese MSN site.

In September, the company agreed to drop search engine Bing for users of its Edge browser in China. Microsoft agreed to use Chinese Internet giant Baidu as its default search engine.

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