MSDN used to be on the web and more updated than the CD-ROMS they mailed out for subscribers.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/

It is the help program of Visual Studio and other apps.

Managers would check http://msn.microsoft.com/ which had their stocks in it.

I only used the web for work, nothing else. I didn't use my company email for newsgroups and website signups I used my Hotmail account instead that kept the spam there.