MSN Premium, the premier all-in-one Web service offering from
MSN, is optimized to take advantage of a high-speed Internet
connection and enhance the online experience and efficiency for
broadband users. Offered as an access-independent subscription
service, MSN Premium is designed to meet the needs customers care
about most, bringing advanced communication tools, persistent online
protection and digital lifestyle management software together in one
place to help them be more efficient online and get the most out of
the Internet.
Features
MSN Advanced Communications
Built with extensive attention to customer feedback, MSN Premium
provides advanced functionality that delivers a powerful and
flexible communications experience to help customers more easily
manage their lives and stay connected to the people and information
they care about most. Features include the following:
Multiple accounts with extensive
storage. MSN Premium helps customers get their whole
family online by delivering 11 accounts for each subscription
(one primary account and 10 additional accounts). The primary
e-mail inbox includes a generous 25 MB of storage and support
for attachment sizes up to 10 MB. The secondary accounts, which
include 10 MB of storage and support for 3MB attachments, can be
used to manage multiperson households and help customers get
their whole family online or establish multiple e-mail
identities for the primary subscriber.
MSN Mail inbox, calendar and
address book. MSN Premium delivers more advanced
functionality with personal information management tools,
enabling customers to access and create folders for offline
e-mail storage and to more efficiently manage and organize their
appointments and contacts. Customers can also get e-mail,
calendar and address book access virtually anywhere there is an
Internet connection through http://www.hotmail.com/. With an
exciting new shared calendar feature, MSN Premium customers can
easily share their calendar with other subscribers or broadly
publish their calendar information to the Internet. In addition,
customers can view others' calendars alongside their own, or
even compare their calendars with MSN Groups calendars.
MSN Designer E-Mail and Photo
E-Mail. MSN Premium customers can easily share their
digital pictures with friends and family through MSN Mail, MSN
Messenger and MSN Groups (subscription includes 30 MB of MSN
Groups storage). Subscribers can use Designer E-Mail to create
content-rich e-mail messages and photo albums that can include
photos, stationery and titles, but which are sent using
efficient compression techniques to minimize their size, helping
ensure they don't clog up their friends' and family's e-mail
inboxes. With the additional benefit of Photo E-Mail, customers
can automatically have their original high-resolution images
associated with their compressed photos and uploaded to 500 MB
of temporary storage on the Web. Friends and family can view the
photos in all their richness through a slide show or download
the high-resolution images for printing.
Multiple e-mail account management
with MSN Mail. With MSN Mail, customers can easily
manage multiple MSN and MSN Hotmail® accounts in the MSN Mail
interface without having to log into or out of each individual
account. Customers using the advanced MSN Mail inbox also can
easily incorporate and manage their POP3 accounts in MSN Mail,
with virtually no limit to the number of POP3 accounts that can
be added in MSN. In addition, features such as designer e-mail
and photo e-mail apply to all e-mail accounts managed in MSN
Mail.
Microsoft Office Outlook Connector
for MSN. The new Outlook® Connector for MSN allows
consumers to use Outlook XP or Outlook 2003 to manage their
e-mail, calendars, address books and other information stored in
an MSN or MSN Hotmail account. Consumers can save time by
seamlessly managing their personal and professional information
in one place, with a variety of views, and can easily drag and
drop information between the e-mail, calendar and contact
services.
MSN Photo Swap via MSN Messenger.
MSN Premium customers can share their favorite digital photos
with others in real time while they chat about the photos using
the innovative MSN Messenger service. The photos are optimized
for sharing over the Internet.
Persistent Protection
MSN Premium provides powerful and flexible tools to help protect
customers, their families and their PCs from viruses, online
criminals, junk e-mail and pop-ups. Security features include the
following:
Virus Guard1 powered by
McAfee Security. For no additional charge, MSN
Premium customers receive Virus Guard powered by McAfee
Security, which automatically detects and cleans viruses from
e-mail, instant message files and downloads, and includes
automatic updates so customers' protection is always up to date.
Virus Guard also includes anti-spyware and cleaning technology.
Firewall1 powered by McAfee
Security. As part of their subscription, MSN Premium
customers receive firewall protection, which helps safeguard
them from hackers and unwanted computer attacks.
Automatic e-mail scanning and
cleaning. When MSN subscribers access their e-mail
using the MSN software or a Web browser, McAfee technology
automatically scans each message for known viruses while the
messages are still on the incoming e-mail server. If a virus is
detected, the message and attachment are cleansed automatically
before they reach the customer's inbox or machine.
Multilevel junk e-mail protection.
MSN delivers multilevel junk e-mail protection, including
Microsoft SmartScreen Technology that helps ensure e-mail
remains a useful communications tool. MSN puts customers in
control of deciding the level of filtering applied to their
account. MSN Premium customers can not only classify e-mail as
junk, they can choose to have all junk e-mail seamlessly and
unobtrusively reported to MSN or report it individually by
simply right-clicking on the junk e-mail message, and then
clicking on the Report This Junk E-Mail to MSN option in the
context menu.
Pop-up Guard. With the
new Pop-up Guard, customers decide which pop-ups they see and
which ones they don't. This feature uses smart technology to
intelligently determine whether a pop-up being generated from a
Web site should be presented or blocked.
MSN Parental Controls.
Parental Controls were designed to deliver choice and help
protect families by giving parents the tools they need to manage
their children's Internet use and help protect them from
inappropriate content and communications. Consumers can use
Parental Controls to select from three age-specific settings to
help block inappropriate Web sites, or go further to block
inappropriate Web sites by customizing site category blocking or
blocking all sites except those designated on an allowed list.
Parents can also receive a weekly e-mail report that details
their child's recent online activity, including the total time
spent online, Web sites visited or tried to visit, e-mail
addresses and MSN Messenger IDs of people with whom they
corresponded, and files downloaded. Parents can manage their
children's activity through the Pending Requests option or via
the online activity report, or interactively manage their kids'
online experience through features such as AskNow and Instant
Block.
Digital Life Management
MSN Premium delivers features that offer a customizable
experience and maximum value to people as they manage their digital
lives. Whether it's enriching the enjoyment of sharing photos with
friends, helping a child research a school report, paying bills or
personalizing their online experience, MSN Premium has solutions to
help customers make more out of their time online. Features include
the following:
Customizing customer experience.
MSN Premium software includes a dashboard, which provides a
customized and personal view of a selection of features chosen
by the customer - from a photo show of their favorite photos to
easy access to incoming e-mail, online contacts, their calendar
and customized alerts, to a traffic map of their area
highlighting current incidents. MSN Premium software also
includes the ability to easily resize the toolbar and quickly
add or remove icons, allowing customers to tailor their
environment and be as productive as possible while online. MSN
also now has a new, free My MSN, available to MSN Premium
customers through MSN.com. My MSN has a new look, improved
customization, the ability to create multiple My MSN pages and a
greater choice of content, including broadband-specific content.
My MSN can be customized easily by dragging and dropping content
modules to provide easy access to consumers' favorite content
and communication services.
MSN Encarta Premium. The
new MSN Encarta® Premium complements the innovative and
compelling features of the No. 1 best-selling encyclopedia
brand,2 Encarta Reference Library 2004, offering
customers the flexibility of accessing learning tools and
premium content through the Internet. This comprehensive online
resource delivers a variety of tools and premium content to help
people young and old discover their world:
Encarta provides a one-stop resource for reference
content, including a comprehensive online encyclopedia, the
Encarta Interactive World Atlas; the Encarta World English
Dictionary and Thesaurus and translation dictionary; a
multimedia center; searchable magazine collections;
Literature Guides; and insights into great works of
literature.
For children, Encarta provides a powerful set of tools
across the service and in the Homework Center, with a wide
array of topics such as math, history, English and foreign
languages, to help families overcome daily academic
frustrations.
MSN Photos Plus. This
new collection of software solutions makes it fun and easy for
people to view, organize, store, edit, create and share their
photos with friends and family:
Picture It!® Library 9 helps customers easily locate,
organize and view digital photos stored on their computer.
Picture It! Express 9 is an easy-to-use editing tool
that gives people the ability to fix red eyes and adjust the
contrast in photos. Advanced editing capabilities make it a
snap to add frames, mats and fancy edges.
Photo Story Lite gives a fabulous finish to photos by
enabling customers to take photos from their collection and
add voice notes and music to create rich multimedia slide
shows that can be shared easily in e-mail with friends or
posted on MSN Groups sites.
MSN Money Plus. Online
tools for virtually effortless financial management tools
include the following:
A Dynamic Home Page gives customers continuously updated
information on daily economic events.
An Online Bill Payer makes it easy to receive and pay
bills online any time.
Connections to different financial institutions provide
updated market analysis.
Personalized spending analysis and budget trackers help
customers understand where their money is being spent and
how to best manage it.
System Requirements
Windows®-compatible computer with 500 MHz or faster
processor (800 MHz recommended)
Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2,
Windows Millennium (Windows Me) Edition or Windows 98
128 MB or more of RAM (256 MB of RAM recommended); up to 320
MB of hard disk space during installation; after installation,
up to 180 MB
CD-ROM drive (if installing from CD)
Super VGA (800x600) or higher-resolution monitor with 256
colors
256-color VGA or higher resolution graphics card (SVGA or
higher resolution graphics card recommended)
Microsoft Mouse recommended (other compatible pointing
devices are acceptable)
16-bit sound card and speakers recommended
28.8Kbps or faster modem or other Internet connection
(broadband service requires available USB or Ethernet port on
the main computer, not on a hub or serial connection through
other devices)
1 Separate download required.
2 NPDTechworldSM, March 1993-March
2003. Based on total U.S sales.
3 Promotional offers only available to
new subscribers, in the 50 United States, the District of Columbia
and Puerto Rico. After the trial period (if any), the then-current
price for your MSN plan will be automatically charged to your credit
card until you cancel your account or select an alternative plan.
You must agree to the MSN Subscription Agreement to access the
service. A major credit card is required. MSN is available only for
personal noncommercial use. Internet access service not provided;
you must have existing Internet access service. No refunds on
prepaid plans, unless cancelled within 30 days. MSN 9 Details: For
users of Windows 98 or later operating systems only. Prices subject
to change. Additional terms may apply.
MSN Premium costs $9.95 a month or $99.95 per
year3 for U.S. subscribers and delivers ongoing updates
and benefits. MSN partners, including Verizon Communications and
Qwest Communications International Inc., will make the service
available to their broadband customers at no additional cost.
Microsoft, MSN, Hotmail, Outlook, Encarta, Picture It! and
Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft
Corp. in the United States and/or other countries.
The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may
be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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