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What's new in Lotus iNotes 8.5.x

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IBM® Lotus® iNotes™ 8.5.x software delivers exciting new features that help users quickly access email, calendars, and collaboration tools within a zero-footprint, easy to use browser experience - even over slow connections - to a variety of Web browsers across multiple platforms.

What's new in Lotus iNotes 8.5.3 software

  • Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 includes entitlement to the IBM Connections files and profiles components, adding significant capabilities to help clients become a social business.
  • Added support for the latest web browsers including Mozilla Firefox 5, Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, Apple Safari 5 interoperability with browser native XSS protection, and Google Chrome 12.
  • Streamlined user experience through significant improvements in the auto-processing of meeting updates.
  • Current document maintains focus during sort and search operations.
  • Elect to not expand personal group when sending.
  • Delivers IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Ajax proxy integration which continues to provide integrated presence awareness to Lotus iNotes with better performance and richer features:
    • Rich chat
    • Updated contact list
    • Business card
  • Support for a mail delivery option to not expand personal groups when sending messages.
  • Improved sorting on email subject content that ignores the "Re:" and "Fw:" prefix, from reply & forward respectively, providing a more accurate sorting of your data.
  • Support for all calendar alarm preferences.
  • Improved usability through a larger default font size.
  • Policy updates that provide support for per-user customizations and policy-controlled Lotus Sametime 8.5.2 Ajax Proxy web client integration.

What's new in Lotus iNotes 8.5.2 software

  • Include IBM Lotus Sametime® meeting information on your meetings invitations. You can select the type of meeting used by your organization, and save it as the default online meeting.
  • Enjoy performance and message creation user interface improvements. Now, an asterisk appears in the messages tab to alert you to unsaved edits, and the subject gets updated in real time in the messages tab. Mail messages can now be marked as confidential.
  • New preferences are available to enable BiDi support, and Ultra-light mode now supports Bidi. The rich text editor can noew compose messages for both both right to left and left to right languages.
  • Use the latest browsers, devices and platforms with added support for:
    • Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and Safari 5.x on Macintosh OS
    • Microsoft Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6
    • Apple iPhone 4 and iPad, as well as Android OS version 2.1.x

What's new in Lotus iNotes 8.5.1 software

Below are highlighted features delivered across Lotus iNotes 8.5.1 software.

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  • Easily support your organization's client strategy through expanded browser support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and Apple's Safari 4 web browsers.
  • Stay on top of your email with immediate notification of new email, eliminating the need to manually refresh the inbox to check for new messages.
  • Maintain consistently across your email by defining a signature definition for use in email sent from the Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes clients. Or create a unique signature definition for use when sending email through Lotus iNotes software.
  • Quickly set up meeting invitations using preferred phone number and web conference information that can be easily inserted into meeting notification documents.
  • Accept and decline meeting invitations from the Ultralight mode for Apple iPhone.
  • Ease end user burden with the Notes ID Vault extended to Lotus iNotes users. Users can have their Note ID files managed for them in the ID Vault, removing the need to upload a new Notes ID file to their client every time a password is changed.

What's new in Lotus iNotes 8.5 software

Below are highlighted features delivered across Lotus iNotes 8.5 software.

Full mode

Access a full array of integrated collaboration tools within environments providing full broadband connections. New features in 8.5 help users:

  • Manage personal and team content, and helps reduce email glut through integration with optionally available IBM Lotus Quickr™ software. Save email attachments into shared or personal Lotus Quickr places, and send links to Lotus Quickr places in place of attachments.
  • Maintain greater control over your schedule as the line between work and life outside of work continues to blur by integrating Lotus iNotes calendars and professional calendars into a single view, offering a complete view of daily schedules.
  • Connect users with relevant, realtime information from a variety of sources-without having to store that information in a document or e–mail– via widgets created from a variety of available sources. Users can, for example, immediately find directions to a destination by clicking an address within a document.
  • Easily switch between applications with convenient icons located in the left-hand navigation panel.
  • Quickly access a day–at–a–glance view of calendars and help information through an easily accessible slideout sidebar.
  • Maintain productivity with message tabs that that include a status icon that indicate when a document is loading.
  • Enforce discipline and professionalism across organization communication through automatic spell checking performance when an email is sent.

Lite mode

Deliver a focused and rich feature experience for mail, contacts, and calendars in areas with slow connections or bandwidth constrained networks. New features in 8.5 include:

  • Easily manage the size of your inbox through available mail quota information.
  • Maintain control of your daily schedule by creating meetings, or accepting and declining meetings from other users.
  • Help optimize your schedule by including comments to users when accepting or declining meeting invitations.

Ultra–light mode

With one touch, view the Inbox, Contacts, and Day-at-a-glance calendar on supported mobile devices.

Administration

  • Maintain and control a standard and consistent experience for users through centralized Lotus Domino administrative policies that set or enforce mail settings for Lotus iNotes users.

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