MSN Groups was shut down on February 21, 2009, as part of a migration of online applications and services to the Windows Live brand.

Some of the largest groups in the site, often rising to the number 1 spot, included Debate, Critical Thinking and Philosophy, RaVaged, The Meaning of Life, ChristianTeen777, and Community Feedback for Dummies.

The "make your own group" feature came along in summer of 1999, when MSN did away with the real newsgroups IRC chat rooms.

Message boards, chat rooms, one customizable home page and photo albums were added.

Users had the option of migrating their data to the social website Multiply, MSN's partner for online groups.

[6] In 2012, those who migrated their groups to Multiply were informed that the site was switching focus to e-commerce and would no longer host personal websites.