Apple Mail Photo Attachments

I sent email to two Widows users and one Mac user that contained photos. Neither of the Windows users could see the photos but the Mac user did. I sent the photos 2 ways, the first by pasting into the main body of the message and the second as an attachment. Neither method worked for the Windows users. The photos were jpg and the names contained the jpg extension. (Actually, the first time, the pasted graphics were converted to tiff). Under Edit > Attachments, "Always Send Windows-Friendly Attachments" is checked.
I never had this problem with Entourage. Any suggestions?

Thanks, I'll give that a try. But, in the meantime, what is the explanation? The Mac recipient had no problem, only the Windows users.
Using Entourage, I would have to format the message as html in order to send pasted photos, but I never had a problem like this. Even the attachments did not work with Apple Mail.

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Process:               Mail [2457]
Path:                  /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Identifier:            com.apple.mail
Version:               8.0 (1990.1)
Build Info:            Mail-1990001000000000~3
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Mail [2457]
User ID:               501
Date/Time:             2014-11-04 12:10:03.027 -0500
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.10 (14A389)
Report Version:        11
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Time Awake Since Boot: 63000 seconds
Crashed Thread:        8 Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-qos
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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
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