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Using Windows Live: Mail

Kip Kniskern — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:22:00 GMT

Yesterday was Labor Day in the United States, the unofficial demarcation between summer and vacation time and fall. School is starting again all over, football season is just beginning, and traditionally Microsoft gets back from employees gone on summer vacation and begins a round of fall releases, too. We’re expecting at least some movement on the Wave 4 front, some news on the Windows Live Platform in time for PDC, and possibly some Bing news too.

In the meantime, it’s been a little slow in Windows Live world, so we thought we would take a bit of time to reflect on how we (and you) use Windows Live. Spurred on by a couple of recent blog posts, we’ve been thinking a bit about mail. After last week’s latest GMail outage, a *ahem* coincidental post appeared on the Windows Live Mail blog, a gentle reminder that unlike GMail, Windows Live has an offline mail solution:

Sometimes we’re not connected to the internet or unexpectedly the service we’re trying to connect to isn’t available – we find ourselves in need of accessing e-mail offline. Windows Live provides you options when things fall down because we understand that people depend on their e-mail for information. With Windows Live Mail or Outlook Connector for Outlook, you can access your Hotmail and other e-mail accounts offline and have a richer experience than possible on the web. So when the unexpected happens, you’ll still have access to your e-mail though the comfort of the mail programs on your PC.

Then in a short interview with Windows Live Director Ryan Gavin, Clint Boulton at Google Watch first notes that Windows Live Hotmail use is growing in the US:

comScore said Windows Live Hotmail ranks only behind Yahoo Mail in the United States. The site grew to 47.1 million monthly users, up 3 percent from the 45.8 million the research firm tracked in July 2008.

but after that uses the opportunity to extol the virtues of Gmail, listing features that he doesn’t find in Hotmail:

text messaging right from a PC to a person's cell phone
video chat
to-do lists
document integration
“and a number of other helpful Web services that Live Hotmail just doesn't offer today.”

Of course this works both ways. One of the main reasons I use Windows Live Mail as my main email client is the ease with which it manages multiple email accounts. I’ve found that the latest versions handle my 9 or so email accounts (mostly Hotmail, but also a couple of ISP POP3 accounts and a Gmail account) seamlessly, and that having associated accounts in Hotmail makes checking my main accounts easy to switch to from within Hotmail.

In contrast, Gmail doesn’t make it easy to handle multiple accounts, as Mashable noted last year. And as Ryan Gavin noted in the Google Watch article, Windows Live offers SkyDrive and photo sharing opportunities that Gmail doesn’t.

So what do you use to check your email? We’re trying out polls, and have posted one in the sidebar (link). Just log in (so we can keep this first poll somewhat accurate, we can switch to anonymous polls as we refine the way this works) and vote, and leave a comment (click on “view more”) about how you use email.

Details on the latest Windows Live Mail update

damaster — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:46:05 GMT

The Windows Live Mail team has posted on their blog today about what was updated and fixed in the latest release (build number 14.0.8089.0726) that came along with the new Windows Live Movie Maker. Here’s a few of the main bugs that were addressed in this update:

Windows Live Mail can now properly import Outlook Express mail account settings that were transferred from a Windows XP to a new Vista or Windows 7 system using the Windows Easy Transfer wizard.

Some users had problems launching Windows Live Mail and we have addressed this. In some cases, after you closed Windows Live Mail, the application would appear to close, but the wlmail.exe process would continue to run in the background. That process would prevent Mail from launching in the future.

On Vista and Windows 7, Windows Live Mail wouldn’t connect properly to POP email servers using SSL. In particular, this affected some users of Yahoo! Mail.

If you have had sign-in issues with Windows Live Mail previously, try this new update to see if your problems are addressed.

It is good to see that the Windows Live Mail team has been proactive and publishing the details about this update. We’ll have to wait and see whether the other teams will be posting about their latest changes. Kudos to the Windows Live Mail team!

You can grab the latest Windows Live Essentials at http://download.live.com

Windows Live Essentials strikes back – completing the Windows 7 experience

damaster — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:03:00 GMT

Remember Windows Live Essentials, the service that went through its early beta stages back in 2006 and never made it out of beta, that’s meant to “offer integrated and bundled e-mail, instant messaging, photo-sharing, blog publishing, security services and other Windows Live entities into a seamless whole”? Today Brandon LeBlanc at the Windows Experience Blog talked about how Windows 7 + Windows Live will “complete the Windows Experience” together – once again through the suite named “Windows Live Essentials”. The reasoning behind this, as explained by Brandon, is that:

Microsoft has learned that many end-user experiences need to be updated more frequently. Instead of waiting for the next Windows release, we began delivering updated versions of the Windows Live applications to improve those end-user experiences. While this was a great way to improve the Windows experience for users, many of these updates in Windows Live Wave 2 seemed duplicative of applications already in Windows.

To address this, Microsoft will now only ship these applications (which include Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Writer and now Windows Live Movie Maker) as part of the Windows Live Essentials suite.

Although branded with a new (or should I say “old”) name, “Windows Live Essentials” in simply the installer that we’ve been seeing since wave 2 that installs the entire suite (or selected applications) of Windows Live products, with the Wave 3 installer available at http://download.live.com. What’s interesting about Brandon’s post is that it showed us a few screenshots of the internal builds of Wave 3 applications, or the “Windows Live Essentials” suite, currently being tested inside Microsoft:

We notice there’s minor updates to all these applications, such as:

• Integration with Windows Live Photos in the Messenger conversation window
• Personal Status Message comes back in the Messenger conversation window
• Removal of the “said:” part in the Messenger conversation history
• A nice shade of blue in the background for Mail
• A new “Edit” submenu in Movie Maker
• Removal of more icons from the programs, especially in Messenger and Mail, to align with "Windows 7” design principles

The one major change that caught our eyes is the new icons for Messenger, Mail, Calendar, Photo Gallery and Movie Maker. It seems like Microsoft icon designers are obsessed with the “yellow ribbon” around their icons. Here’s a close up view of the new icons and also a close-up shot of a photo taken from the Windows 7 keynote at PDC2008:

Do these icon change and the “yellow ribbon” signify anything? Are they in any way related to the “yellow ribbon” around the Internet Explorer icon? Perhaps we’ll have to find out later. Stay tuned with us as we keep you updated on the latest Windows Live news.

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3: What’s New

Chris — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:41:00 GMT

Thanks to some great work by tophtucker and then BV2312, we managed to catch the new Windows Live Hotmail promotion site as soon as it popped up today. What we love about this site is that it has gone public with some of the changes for Windows Live Hotmail that are coming up in the Wave 3 beta. Here's the summary:

Speed: The coming soon page says that for broadband users, the new Hotmail will be up to 70% faster on sign in (50% for non-broadband users). That's a pretty big claim, and one which should provide for some interesting testing once the beta is open to the public.

Ever-increasing storage: Microsoft have carefully avoided using the phrase "unlimited storage", as Yahoo has done, but in a sense this is what is being offered. The figures we last heard for this were the the existing 5GB free accounts would be getting growth of 250MB per month, but this is pre-beta and could have changed and so our usual disclaimer applies. Obviously the PR definitely looks better leaving the figures out, but a free inbox of 8GB by the end of year 1 gives us a warm feeling. (For comparison, Gmail is currently on 7GB and still growing.)

New UI: Along with the new Wave 3 UI, in particular the new header and themes available shown below, the new promotion site suggests that the classic and full versions of Hotmail will be combined together. This potentially means that full functionality could be available across all browsers. Also worth mentioning here are improvements around deadling with spam.

In terms of Hotmail integrating with other Windows Live services, there's also some details on that:

WebIM built-in: This feature doesn't really need much explaining and should be a popular addition. From what we've heard it'll support most of the basic needs such as presence, notifications and chat via the WebMessenger dogfood. Yes its been a while since we've spoken about that!

Integrated Calendar: No surprise if you're on the new Windows Live Calendar beta to hear there will be integration between the two services.

Easier to send group emails: Thanks to the new Windows Live Groups service (go ABCH!) it'll be easier to email all those contacts in one go

And of course there is stuff not on the PR site that we've heard about, including the long-rumoured POP support for other mail clients and using Skydrive for storing photos sent via Photo Mail.

Unfortunately if you're now excited about giving the new Hotmail a try, we haven't seen any links to sign up for a public beta. As soon as we do though, we'll let you know. Keep those tips coming, either in the comments or via email.

Windows Live Help confirms Wave 3 features in Mail, Photo Gallery and Toolbar

damaster — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:18:00 GMT

Our friend Picturepan2 at LiveSino has again done some more investigative reporting in Windows Live Help revealing and confirming Wave 3 features in Mail, Photo Gallery and Toolbar. Here's a summary of what's discovered:

Windows Live Photo Gallery

Add people tags (Textual data attached to a photo to refine its definition and meaning by identifying the person or persons in the photo. You can sort your photos according to what people tags they have, making it easier to find photos of your friends and family.) to your photos to make sorting and finding photos of your friends and family easier. You can create people tags and add them to your photos at any time.
Windows Live Mail

Calendars: You can create calendars and events whether you're signed in to Windows Live Mail or not. However, if you do sign in, any calendars that you’ve created in Windows Live Calendar Beta are automatically imported into Windows Live Mail, and changes that you make in either Windows Live Mail or Windows Live Calendar Beta are reflected in the other. Also, your calendars are available from any computer on which you sign in to Windows Live Mail. If you don't sign in, you can access your calendars only from the computer on which you created them. For more information, see About calendars.

You can also update when events occur and schedule events to occur regularly over a period of days, weeks, months, or years. If you sign in to Windows Live Mail with your Windows Live ID, Windows Live Mail can send you reminders (A scheduled message that Windows Live Mail sends to you to remind you that an event in your calendar is about to occur) before each event starts to help ensure that you never miss an event.

It even reveals the little Calendar icon that's going to appear in Windows Live Mail:
Windows Live Toolbar

Windows Live Calendar Beta is a free online calendar program that you can use to keep track of personal appointments, family get-togethers, group schedules, birthdays, holidays, and other events. When you're signed in with your Windows Live ID, you can always see a summary of your calendar on Windows Live Toolbar Beta, and the Calendar Beta website is just a click away.

Looks like Microsoft is revealing more and more about what's coming up in Windows Live Wave 3. Stay tuned as we continue updating you on what's coming.

More information on Windows Live Wave 3

damaster — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:29:00 GMT

Mary Jo Foley recently reported on her blog that Windows Live Wave 3 have completed the M1 (Milestone 1) stage. Our friend Picturepan2 over at LiveSino was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to interview a manager for Windows Live chatting about the progress of Windows Live Wave 3. Although there were many interesting details that he wasn't allowed to disclose, here's a quick summary of what's currently going on in Microsoft with Windows Live:

New Unified Header - as we've reported previously, all online Windows Live services upon release will have the brand new header that allows users to change the background and colour themes of their pages. This is aimed to reduce the branding confusion that we've had with Windows Live previously.

Windows Live Hotmail - this has recently completed its M2 (Milestone 2) stage. The new version concentrates on extra integration with other Windows Live services such as SkyDrive and Home, as well as a new service People (will this replace Contacts? or perhaps has something to do with the C2 project at Microsoft Research?)
Windows Live Messenger - M1 build is now complete, and is currently in development for the M2 stage. Messenger 9 will feature a new look as well as additional new features (that we're not allowed to disclose yet )
Windows Live Mail - some minor improvements and interface changes in the M1 build. With the recent release of Outlook Connector 12.1 with Windows Live Calendar support, the new Windows Live Mail will also feature Calendar syncing.
Windows Live Photo Gallery - the main new feature in the current M1 build is facial recognition. Photo Gallery will automatically recognise people's faces in your photos, and users will be able to add tags to each person (similar to how Facebook photos works by tagging each person). However, these added people tags will only be viewable in Photo Gallery.

Currently these are the only set of features we are allowed to disclose. There are no mentions of the new Windows Live Movie Maker application nor any details on the new Windows Live People and Windows Live Groups services. But stay tuned as we'll keep you updated with the latest news in the development of Windows Live Wave 3.

Microsoft Launches Consumer Subscription Offering That Combines Microsoft Office And Windows Live OneCare: Microsoft Equipt, Initially Known As Albany

Sunshine — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Remember Albany Beta? Well, it has been renamed to Equipt and is released today!

REDMOND, Wash. — July 2, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Microsoft Equipt, an all-in-one security and productivity software subscription service for consumers. In one easy installation, the service delivers award-winning anti-malware protection technology and features to simplify PC management and help improve performance, the productivity tools people use to organize their lives, and online services that help make it easy to keep in touch with friends and family.

Initially code-named “Albany,” Microsoft Equipt offers consumers Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, giving them the latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote for their personal and school projects; Windows Live OneCare, the all-in-one security and PC management service; Windows Live tools, such as Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Photo Gallery so they can connect and share with people they care about most; and Office Live Workspace, a new service from Microsoft that makes it easy to save documents to a dedicated online Workspace and share them with friends and classmates. Anytime a new version of Office or Windows Live OneCare is released, Microsoft Equipt customers will get the version upgrades as part of their subscriptions.

Microsoft Equipt will be sold in nearly 700 Circuit City Stores in the US starting mid-July. Retail price is estimated at $69.99 for a one-year renewable subscription and can be installed on up to three home PCs.

From the factsheet:

Included Products and Services:

Windows Live OneCare
All-in-one security and performance includes antivirus, antispyware, firewall, file and photo backup, performance tune-ups, and home network management to help keep your PC running at its peak.

Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
· Word 2007. Create great-looking documents with ease.
· Excel 2007. Intuitive spreadsheet tools let you create budgets and more.
· PowerPoint 2007. Design stunning presentations for family, school or volunteer activities.
· OneNote 2007. Organize different kinds of information — text, images, audio and video, Web clippings, and more — in one digital notebook.

Microsoft Office Live Workspace
This new service from Office makes it easy for you to save documents to a dedicated online Workspace and share these with friends and classmates.

Windows Live tools
· Windows Live Mail. Get all your e-mail in one place.
· Windows Live Messenger. Send instant messages to your friends or have a video chat.
· Windows Live Photo Gallery. Organize and share photos.
· And more. Including Windows Live Writer and Windows Live Toolbar.

Automatic updates and upgrades. Office Home and Student version upgrades plus automatic security updates and OneCare upgrades.

More information:
Q&A: PressPass Interview with Bryson Gordon
Factsheet Equipt
http://www.circuitcity.com

Albany Beta launches today, what is it?

Sunshine — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:21:00 GMT

Microsoft launches Albany Beta today, but what is it? The name reveals nothing. “Albany” is the codename for a new all-in-one subscription service of essential software and services for consumers. It consists of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Windows Live OneCare, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Photo Gallery, it also installs the Microsoft Office Live Workspace connector. With Albany consumers will get the latest versions of Microsoft Office Home and Student and Windows Live OneCare as they are released.

Each “Albany” subscription is good for three PCs and the final version of the product will be delivered before the end of this calendar year. Microsoft Office and Windows Live OneCare will still be sold as standalone package as well. Albany just gives customers more choice and addresses the needs of those customers who value having the latest and greatest version of Microsoft Office. Pricing is not yet known.

Q&A: Group Product Manager Bryson Gordon discusses “Albany”
Getting ready for Windows Live Wave 3

Microsoft Announces Changes for Accessing Hotmail with Outlook Express

Sunshine — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:05:15 GMT

Important news if you currently access your Windows Live Hotmail with Outlook Express, come June 30th. this will no longer be possible.

A change is coming for users that access Hotmail with Outlook Express. Outlook Express uses a protocol called DAV (Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol) to access a Windows Live™ Hotmail® e-mail account. DAV, like POP3 or IMAP, is the way that a mail client communicates with a web-based mail server.

As of June 30, 2008, Microsoft is disabling the DAV protocol and you will no longer be able to access your Hotmail Inbox via Outlook Express. As an alternative, we recommend that you download Windows Live Mail, a free desktop e-mail client that has the familiarity of Outlook Express and much more.

This next generation of free e-mail software will allow you to easily manage multiple e-mail accounts—including Windows Live Hotmail, plus other e-mail accounts that support POP3/IMAP. Better yet, Windows Live Mail integrates well with other Windows Live services, and downloads in minutes. After you provide your user name and password, you will automatically be linked to your Hotmail account, providing continued access to your email and contacts.

We encourage you to download Windows Live Mail at http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview.

DAV is being replaced with DeltaSync, which is more suitable for large inboxes, Outlook Express does not support this and will not be adjusted to do so. This change is needed since Windows Live Hotmail offers 5GB free storage (10GB for Plus).

For the full story and some frequently asked questions, read Windows Live Hotmail Technical Support Blog: Microsoft Announces Changes for Accessing Hotmail with Outlook Express

Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Mail

Sunshine — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:43:00 GMT

Last time we took a look at Search, let us take a look at Mail now.

Looking at the above, the rankings are:
1. Yahoo! - Yahoo! Mail
2. Microsoft - Windows Live Hotmail
3. Google - Gmail

In this area, what would a Microsoft/Yahoo! merger mean? Google is far behind (user base) wether there will be a merger or not. Can Google catch up? Let's compare some (main) features:

Web Mail	Windows Live Hotmail	Yahoo! Mail	Gmail
Storage	5/10 GB (Plus)	unlimited	6 GB+
Attachment size	10/20 MB (Plus)	10/20 MB (Plus)	20 MB for total message
Email Client Access*	Free Windows Live Mail Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Pay Hotmail Plus, MSN Premium	Free retrieval in some countries, SMTP requires Plus Pay Yahoo! Mail Plus	Free
More info	Homepage/wikipedia	Homepage/wikipedia	Homepage/wikipedia

*Not taking into account third party software retrieving mail from webmail services not supporting POP3 access.

What's going to happen with these two (free) webmail services? Will they co-exist, or will Yahoo! Mail disappear into Windows Live Hotmail? If the latter, current Yahoo! Mail users will not be pleased as their online storage will decrease from unlimited to 5 GB. Unless of course Microsoft is going to offer the same for Windows Live Hotmail. If Microsoft does not, do you think that would drive current Yahoo! Mail users to Gmail? And what if Microsoft is going to offer at least the storage space Gmail offers now?

Final Windows Live Wave 2 applications available for download

Chris — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:03:00 GMT

Looks like nothing can stay quiet for long - a new installer featuring the final Windows Live Wave 2 programs is available for download thanks to Microsoft's early preparations. While not much has changed in the applications themselves since the last beta releases, its just nice to be running the final versions.

You can grab the new Windows Live installer here: http://g.live.com/1rewlive/en/WLInstaller.exe

Messenger is now 8.5.1302.1018 and Mail is now at 12.0.1606 . If you have any problems installing/upgrading from the betas, the following support article should help.

(hat tip to mess.be)

Update: As pointed out by Dwergs, this now supports x64 systems.

Windows Live Mail: details about the new beta announced

Kip Kniskern — Mon, 07 May 2007 23:12:31 GMT

With the news coming from Microsoft that Windows Live Mail will be succeeding Outlook Express and Windows Mail in Vista, Tanja from the Windows Live Mail team was able to post some details about the upcoming beta. Coming "in just a few short weeks", where it will become available on http://get.live.com/betas , the new beta will be more than just a name change. According to the Windows Live Mail blog "(w)e’re bringing in features from OE, Windows Mail AND Windows Live Mail desktop" The blog entry goes on to note:

Windows Live Mail will include all the great features that were available to you in WLMd, plus:

· New and improved UI: Cleaner design, and now with Aero support!

· Setup and account migration improvements: Smoother experience overall - you will now have fewer steps in order to get started with the client.

· More parity with OE and Windows Mail: S/MIME and LDAP support are just two of the features that we’ve been working on for WLM which will bring us more parity with our other free Mail clients.

· Performance and stability: The new product will be faster and more robust than WLMd.

· No Ads: Yes, it’s true – there will be no graphical ads in the WLM beta build.

(Hot)mail coming to Live.com again soon?

Kip Kniskern — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:08:00 GMT

Live.com has offered, among many others, a gadget to put your Windows Live Mail on a Live.com page. Problem is that the gadget hasn't worked for quite some time, and now we have an explanation, and a reason for hope that it will again.

According to the Live.com blog:

"The gadget was pulled due to a security issue, which we initially believed could be fixed in a relatively quick fashion. We take security very seriously, and once we became aware of the issue, disabling this gadget was the best way to protect our users.
As our developers worked with the Hotmail developers to see how we could restore the gadget's functionality (while ensuring your data was secure), it became evident that the task was originally much larger than anyone anticipated. The gadget had to be rewritten to "talk" to Hotmail in an entirely new way, and the Hotmail team needed to add new functionality on their end as well. The time needed to design, implement, and test this new functionality is the reason that the gadget has been broken for so long."

While no definite date for the return of the gadget is forthcoming (bad luck, indeed!), the Live.com developers "have entered the home stretch", and, although you will have to upgrade to Windows Live Hotmail (the beta will work, apparently) from a Hotmail account to use the gadget, you should be able to soon.

Windows Live Mail Desktop Gets Update

ScottIsAFool — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:33:00 GMT

Tanja on the Live Mail Desktop team blog has announced that the February refresh of WLMD is now available via Windows Update. For XP users go to http://update.microsoft.com/ and for Vista users, click the Start button and just type Update. Doesn't look to be anything major, just bug fixes really. Tanja does say that any new updates for WLMD will come through Windows Update, so you'll easily know when there's a new build.

Oh, and for those who like to check, the new build number is 8.0.1226 (so only three builds newer than the December refresh).

Thanks to JoeM for the tip.

Update
The team blog post is available here.

MSN Premium releases 9.5 version, not dead yet

Matthew — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:40:00 GMT

Much to our surprise, MSN released version 9.5 of MSN Explorer/MSN Internet Access to subscribers as an update on Friday. The release appears to fix a number of issues surrounding upgrades to Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Live Messenger. The release also introduces Digital Image Suite as a new piece of software to the suite MSN Premium was originally advertised as a benefit.

At launch Microsoft said, "If purchased separately, the services combined in MSN Premium would cost more than $350 a year and require customers to independently manage and update them." With an MSN subscription, Microsoft also bundles a premium version of Encarta and MSN Money online, Microsoft Office Outlook Connector and PictureIt! Express 9. Now PictureIt! Express 9 has finally been upgraded to the Standard Edition of Digital Image Suite. MSN has updated the core, MSN Explorer, as well as Outlook Connector, but the original suite of software has remained the same until now. Unfortunately, with the update of 9.5, there is no update for Outlook Connector compatibility with Outlook 2007, but Vista has been reported to work fine with MSN Premium.

Some additional updated features include:

New Microsoft® Phishing Filter service helps block known phishing or fraudulent Web sites and allows you to report new sites or provide feedback to the Microsoft® Phishing Filter Web site about potential Phishing Web sites.
Search now enables users of Windows® Desktop Search to search your PC for images, music files, and documents fast. The new Search bar allows you to search the web Web or your PC right from the dashboard. Includes a list of recent searches on a quick pick list!

This is a big surprise since Microsoft has been so aggressive in segregating services from content between Windows Live and MSN, respectively. However, if version 10.0 comes along, we might see Windows Live Premium/Explorer instead. Microsoft obviously doesn't want to jump ship for fear that MSN Dial-up/Premium customers might switch to AOL [of course, we think someone would have to be intoxicated to do that]. We probably won't see Microsoft discontinue MSN Explorer until Windows Live Mail Desktop and other services launch in final versions, since MSN will need to transition customers to the new software. They've already set up a way to easily transition Dial-up customers with seperate software, MSN Connection Center.

Most customers have most likely received the update as it was scheduled for the third week of November, according to a Technical Support Representative from MSN. There is an auto-update feature in MSN Explorer, although the software can also be updated manually through Add/Remove Programs. The auto-update will only install MSN Explorer 9.5, other features like Digital Image Suite will have to be updated manually with a 245 MB download. Hopefully updated CDs will be going out soon, they can be ordered at cdorder.msn.com.

@Matthew