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'''Ann Miller''' was born on [[April 12]], [[1923]] (some sources still indicate [[1919]]) and died on [[January 22]], [[2004]]. She was an American dancer, singer and actress, who was christened '''Johnnie Lucille Collier''' in [[Chireno, Texas]] (some sources cite [[Houston, Texas]]).

[[Microsoft]]'s '''Outlook Express''' is a stripped-down version of [[Microsoft]]'s [[Outlook]] program, which provides [[email client]] functionality but none of the larger application's features. It is supplied free with [[Internet Explorer]], which may or may not be freely available when future versions are released.

She was considered a child dance prodigy. She was given a contract with [[RKO]] allegedly at the tender age of thirteen (she had told them she was eighteen). She became famous for her roles in films such as [[Kiss Me, Kate]], [[Easter Parade]] and [[On the Town]]. Miller was famed for her speed in [[tap dancing]]; she claimed to be able to tap 500 times per minute.

Microsoft claims possible end to a freely downloadable browser is due to the fact that "further enhancements to security" will require Internet Explorer to be run only on a newly secured platform, Longhorn.

Her father (from whom she would become estranged due to his infidelities to her mother) insisted on the name Johnnie because he had wanted a boy, but she was often called Annie. She took up dancing to help exercise her legs to help her [[rickets]]. Her film career effectively ended in [[1956]], but she remained active in the theatre. In [[1979]] she astounded audiences in the [[Broadway]] show [[Sugar Babies]]. In 1983 she won the [[Sarah Siddons Award]] for her work in [[Chicago]] theatre. In 2001 she took her last role as "Coco" in auteur director [[David Lynch]]'s movie [[Mulholland Drive (film)]].

An installer icon for Internet Explorer 3.0 eventually made its way through Windows history to the [[Windows 95]] desktop. It included Internet Explorer Mail and News, a precursor to Outlook Express. Internet Mail and News was just plain text, and had none of the security holes Outlook is known for. It did support [[HTML]] as an [[attachment]], but would not display it as message content.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Ann Miller has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6914 Hollywood Blvd.

When Microsoft announced Outlook Express, they announced that they had created a mail client better than [[Eudora]]. It supported HTML composition, something only [[Eudora Pro]] supported. However, Eudora also supported (in both pro and light versions) limited HTML support (it definitely supported [[hyperlink]]ing-- it is debatable whether it supported [[W3C]] standards for rich text), but it did support it. It did not support the displaying of remote images, nor tables, nor [[JavaScript]]. JavaScript and remote images were the cause of many of its security and privacy issues. Outlook Express is as insecure as Internet Explorer, because they allowed the distinction to blur between a trusted application, a beneign e-mail, and a remote webpage. Their vision for web applications caused them to integrate the browser into the mail client, with full scripting support.

She died at the age of 80 (or 84) from cancer that had spread to her lungs and was interred in the [[Holy Cross Cemetery]] in [[Culver City, California]].

In the "Welcome e-mail" for both Outlook and Outlook Express, Microsoft acknowledged that with new HTML e-mail, security was a risk. And they described their plan for foiling the security risk. Outlook and Internet Explorer both featured security zones-- a feature still not found in any of the competition. The zones were Intranet, Internet, Trusted, and Restricted. Internet was for any site not in a zone. Trusted sites could do things without asking user's permission, and was clearly designed for administrators who wanted to allow updating without any confusion. [[AOL]] used it to add http://free.aol.com to ensure that users who wanted to download their online service client software didn't have to grant them permission via an [[ActiveX]] certificate [[dialog box]] whose well-warranted warning might scare away potential customers. That required an Internet Explorer modification. The problem: the security zones were supposed to be user controlled.

But that was a relatively benign breach due to Microsoft's implemention of the plan. Another flaw was the fact that the "Restricted" security zone wasn't restrictive enough. A script could automatically open an attachment. And all of the sudden opening an e-mail (or previewing an e-mail, the preview pane was copied from Eudora Pro, but it was a relatively recent phonomenon in mail clients), could cause code to run without your express knowledge or consent. Viruses exploited this. See [[Outlook]] and [[Trustworthy Computing]] for more information on how Microsoft has responded.

== Filmography ==

While Outlook Express is regarded by some as a [[de-facto standard]] because of its filtering capabilities (which some regarded as being more powerful than Eudora Light's email filters was at the time) and HTML composition (which, however, has been the [[vector (computing)|vector]] of worms and viruses).

* ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'' (1934)

* ''[[The Good Fairy]]'' (1935)

* ''[[The Devil on Horseback]]'' (1936)

* ''[[New Faces of 1937]]'' (1937)

* ''[[The Life of the Party]]'' (1937)

* ''[[Stage Door]]'' (1937)

* ''[[Radio City Revels]]'' (1938)

* ''[[Having Wonderful Time]]'' (1938)

* ''[[You Can't Take It with You]]'' (1938)

* ''[[Room Service]]'' (1938)

* ''[[Tarnished Angel]]'' (1938)

* ''[[Too Many Girls]]'' (1940)

* ''[[Hit Parade of 1941]]'' (1940)

* ''[[Melody Ranch]]'' (1940)

* ''[[Time Out for Rhythm]]'' (1941)

* ''[[Meet the Stars: Stars Past and Present]]'' (1941) (short subject)

* ''[[Screen Snapshots: Series 21, No. 1]]'' (1941) (short subject)

* ''[[Go West, Young Lady]]'' (1941)

* ''[[True to the Army]]'' (1942)

* ''[[Priorities on Parade]]'' (1942)

* ''[[Reveille with Beverly]]'' (1943)

* ''[[What's Buzzin', Cousin?]]'' (1943)

* ''[[Hey, Rookie]]'' (1944)

* ''[[Jam Session]]'' (1944)

* ''[[Carolina Blues]]'' (1944)

* ''[[Eadie Was a Lady]]'' (1945)

* ''[[Eve Knew Her Apples]]'' (1945)

* ''[[The Thrill of Brazil]]'' (1946)

* ''[[Easter Parade]]'' (1948)

* ''[[The Kissing Bandit]]'' (1948)

* ''[[Mighty Manhattan, New York's Wonder City]]'' (1949) (short subject)

* ''[[On the Town]]'' (1949)

* ''[[Watch the Birdie]]'' (1950)

* ''[[Texas Carnival]]'' (1951)

* ''[[Two Tickets to Broadway]]'' (1951)

* ''[[Lovely to Look At]]'' (1952)

* ''[[Small Town Girl]]'' (1953)

* ''[[Calamity Jane]]'' (1953) (bit part)

* ''[[Kiss Me, Kate]]'' (1953)

* ''[[Deep in My Heart]]'' (1954)

* ''[[Hit the Deck]]'' (1955)

* ''[[The Opposite Sex]]'' (1956)

* ''[[The Great American Pastime]]'' (1956)

* ''[[Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood]]'' (1976)

* ''[[A Century of Cinema]]'' (1994) (documentary)

* ''[[That's Entertainment! III]]'' (1994)

* ''[[Mulholland Dr.]]'' (2001)

== External links ==

Outlook Express' Draft folder feature is viewed Microsoft's own creation. The draft folder has been implemented by numerous other mail clients, except interestingly [[Eudora]] which has maintained its legacy popular In and Out metaphor -- its Out box handling queued and sent messages.

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* [http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3422589.stm BBC obituary]

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