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Hotmail On Your Desktop

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mail-everywhere dept.

thomas2you writes "Microsoft has just started its beta testing on a new program, made to have Microsoft's hotmail on your own desktop according to an article on CNET. It's going to be free software, you're going to be able to manage multiple accounts and they are attempting to include the ability to also just control all pop3 and smtp accounts you have, including Google's gmail as well as Windows Live Mail, the successor to Hotmail. From the article, 'The move is a shift for the Hotmail business, which in the past, has charged users who wanted to read their mail using desktop software, rather than a Web browser. Microsoft charged $20 and up for its paid service.'"

5 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I stopped using hotmail by Stachybotris · · Score: 3, Informative

    What is this discontinued plugin of which you speak? I can still check Hotmail via Outlook, and I'm using Office 2003.

  2. gotmail does it by rollx · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotmail

    You can use it with any mail client. Without any favor from Microsoft

  3. Arrrgh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    it's = it is
    its = possessive

    you're = you are
    your = possessive

  4. Windows Live Favorites Feature by CyberSlugGump · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to the table (from clicking the image in the article), Windows Live Services will include "Windows Live Favorites" which is listed as having no competitors. Isn't del.icio.us a competitor?

  5. Re:Better Solution by Jim_Maryland · · Score: 3, Informative

    I too use Outlook Express to access Hotmail (actually that's all I use Outlook Express for). I don't know if you remember, but at one point, they stopped allowing that access via Outlook Express unless you paid for a Hotmail account. Free accounts, since that cut-off, were only permitted to access using a web browser.

    I've stopped using this account for the most part. The only reason I periodically check it now is that I've had it long enough that some long lost contacts from high school or college may still have that as the only way to locate me for a class reunion or possibly some former co-workers who may be of use for career networking.