M9 is Live February 07

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February 07
M9 is Live!
Over the past two weeks, I've had the pleasure of watching another PM
on my team work with the Customer Support team and Operations to gauge
customer satisfaction and look for any signs of problems on M9.
Watching them do their thing leads me to just one conclusion: they
rock! After two weeks of 24/7 monitoring, I'm happy to announce on
their behalf that M9 is stable and is cruising along just fine.

Now that it's out there, let me highlight what I feel is the biggest
improvement in this milestone: Windows Live Mail is faster. I've heard
echoes of this on blogs and comments all over the place, so I'm glad
you guys are feeling the speed too.

Aside from that speed boost, I also encourage you to check out the
Classic experience, which allows you to:

Read, find, and sort your email and contacts faster than ever
Choose contacts quickly when composing a message by using the Contact
Picker (this shows up on the right side of the compose page, letting
you add recipients to your message with a single click)
Tweak Windows Live Mail to use your favorite color
Find information about your contacts quicker using alphabetized
contacts filtering
Write professional-looking emails with the rich-text editor
Reply, forward, and delete messages easier with a toolbar that appears
below each message (don't worry, we still kept the top toolbar =])
The Full experience also has some new features, three of which I want
to mention here:

Sort and search your messages easier with additional options
Make your emails stand out with message importance indicators
Interact with Windows Live Mail better with an improved context menu
(which appears when you right-click on a message in the message list,
for example)
Both the Classic and Full experiences also have:

Support for importing and exporting your contacts
Updates to the Today Page
Detail-oriented improvements on the user interface
Thanks to all of you who have forwarded feedback and comments. Please
keep it up! As usual, keep your eyes on this blog for the latest!

Benjamin Poon
Windows Live Mail Program Manager

P.S. For those who are using the Windows Live Mail full experience,
but prefer to use the fast and simple Classic experience, here's how
to switch:

Click the "Options" dropdown on the upper right of your screen
Choose the "More Options..." menu item
Click the "Click here to use the classic version, which is good for
slow connections." link