You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade to the latest version for the best MSN experience.

Anonymous
2014-09-30T17:27:39+00:00

Today I was absolutely surprised when trying to access MSN Money and could not, getting instead the message "You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade to the latest version for the best MSN experience."  There was no warning yesterday or overnight when I was happily using the MSN Money site with no problems, that all of the sudden today there would be a "new" MSN site that would not be functional for many operating systems and browsers.  The MSN pages are almost unusable, formatted as a long list and in a way that does not show or allow the former functionality. Can't access my stock portfolio yet, on which I rely.  My browser is Safari 5.1.10.  I visited the Apple Support site and there is not a newer version of Safari available for my operating system, which runs Mac OSX version 10.6.8.  So I have the most up to date browser possible for my operating system.  My Mac is a 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 with 8 GB or RAM, quite modern enough according to the MSN compatibility site, and, their compatibility site also says my version of OSX is compatible with MSN.  To try to get functionality, I uninstalled Silverlight and then re-installed it, following the installation instructions exactly at the Silverlight site.  Re-started my browser but still no improvement at MSN.com.  Can anyone offer help on this?  Any idea why MSN does this to regular customers?  Thank you.

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Anonymous
2014-10-05T21:20:17+00:00

I am running Vista and IE9, which, when I try to update, says that IE9 IS the most current browser for Vista.  At someone else's suggestion, I went to TOOLS, COMPATIBILITY VIEW SETTINGS, and removed MSN.COM from the compatibility view list.  My MSN.com homepage immediately changed from the unusable "list look" to what I assume is the new MSN.  Try it - it can't hurt at this point.

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2014-10-04T02:05:30+00:00

Today I was absolutely surprised when trying to access MSN Money and could not, getting instead the message "You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade to the latest version for the best MSN experience."  There was no warning yesterday or overnight when I was happily using the MSN Money site with no problems, that all of the sudden today there would be a "new" MSN site that would not be functional for many operating systems and browsers.  The MSN pages are almost unusable, formatted as a long list and in a way that does not show or allow the former functionality. Can't access my stock portfolio yet, on which I rely.  My browser is Safari 5.1.10.  I visited the Apple Support site and there is not a newer version of Safari available for my operating system, which runs Mac OSX version 10.6.8.  So I have the most up to date browser possible for my operating system.  My Mac is a 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 with 8 GB or RAM, quite modern enough according to the MSN compatibility site, and, their compatibility site also says my version of OSX is compatible with MSN.  To try to get functionality, I uninstalled Silverlight and then re-installed it, following the installation instructions exactly at the Silverlight site.  Re-started my browser but still no improvement at MSN.com.  Can anyone offer help on this?  Any idea why MSN does this to regular customers?  Thank you.

I had this problem with several machines at work and it was resolved by going to compatibility view settings andREMOVING msn.com from the list. Every machine that had this problem in IE9 also had msn.com listed in the compatability view settings.

 This actuall works to solve the problem.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-10-03T19:44:47+00:00

    Anyone running Vista can not upgrade to a later version past IE9. So you are basically saying that Microsoft is trying to force customers to upgrade to Windows 7 or 8.  Why not just post the fact and let people get on with finding another provider?

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-10-03T17:59:00+00:00

    Hi All,

    Error message,  related to running outdated browsers to overcome this issue we will need to update to a modern browser to resolve the issue/message.

    I would recommend you to refer to the following article about the Browser Requirements for new MSN.com http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2999871/en-us

    However you will be able to login regardless of receiving the outdated browser message.

    Hope the information is helpful.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-10-03T16:23:54+00:00

    I tried to update my msn brower but it made me change my user name from JayJay to JayJay6996. Is that alright? Am I now updated? I don't want to change my user name. I want it to remain the JayJay......

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