Hello to anyone viewing my post, but i am currently developing a MSN Revival and YES IT SUPPORTS MSN EXPLORER AND THE 2002 MSN REPLICA CAN ALSO PULL CURRENT NEWS DATA! I’m not that sure if i can actually make this succeed tho. One reason is because i don’t have a server! Sure i have a NUC but i use it for other web related stuff. IDK if i can use a public hosting service but i’ll check. I may need help from other people when i release my revival because i am not really smart at PCs and because of that, currently only MSN Explorer 7 and maybe 6 works. Sadly the E-Mail features got me confused too. I just know that they try to authenticate the user with Hotmail. Maybe someone else can figure that out. If i have even more time i can fix People and Chat, EShop, Zone.com(or ‘‘Games’’ in MSN Explorer) and maybe even get the sidebar stuff and the ads to work. IDK if i can pull this off but it would be awesome if i would.
Any chance of a video demo/screen recording showing off what you have working? 
Pulling off that won’t be easy, it’s harder than you think, however, if you are persistent and have enough info about how to make it work, then maybe you will have a chance, but it’s still low.