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Download: Security Update for Microsoft Windows XP: KB828035
Download: Security Update for Microsoft Windows 2000: KB828035
Download: Security Update for Microsoft Windows Server 2003: KB828035
View: Security Bulletin

General: Made improvements to overall performance and stability

Mail:

· Added support for multiple @msn.com and @hotmail.com accounts

· Found and fixed bugs that could prevent sending &/or receiving email

· Improvements on shutdown so that it happens as expected in all cases

· Added the “Report SPAM” feature

· Added a new “share photos” button in mail view in order to improve visibility of this feature

· Improvements to the import wizard

· Clean-up work on the Junk Mail Filter dialogs

· Several improvements to POP3 support

· Improvements in email toast content

Email Compose:

· Found and fixed bugs that could prevent MSN Photos by Mail from sending &/or receiving

· Made general improvements to Compose user interface

· Better accelerator key support in context menus when composing email

· Improvements in saving photo layout as draft

· Improved progress indicators when saving or sending large email messages

Dashboard:

· General UI fixes and improvements

· Photo slideshow improvements

· Improved MSN Money favorites font colors

· Eliminated duplicate alerts in the Alerts fly out

Calendar:

· Added more stickers for the calendar

· Appointments no longer overlap in the Month view

· Invites no longer get junked when junk filter is set to “strong”

· General improvements to custom note support for calendar sharing invites

Parental Controls

· Added more detailed error messaging when Parental Control Service not available error occurs

· Significantly improved the sign-in customer experience, providing better information when Internet connectivity is not available vs. parts of the service being unavailable frame

· Improved roaming of settings

· Several improvements to the Navigation bar button links Help

· Lots of improvements to Pane Help…too many to mention here

Address Book:

· Ability to expand a group in the To, Cc or Bcc field by clicking on it

· More consistent support of navigation via keyboard in address book

· Enhanced roaming support for address book user settings

· More consistent management of contacts between MSN Explorer and MSN Messenger

· Better management of conflict on Add Contact

· Cleaned up the address book User Interface

· Better communication of errors and how to resolve them

· Allowing use of only birth month and year when entering a birthday

· Support resizing columns in the Address Book on Win 9x