MSN Hotmail & Windows Mail

[Peter]

What was Microsoft's logic behind the decision not to support one of their
own products in Windows Mail?

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
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[sim.seb]

What was Microsoft's logic behind the decision not to support one of their
own products in Windows Mail?

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

Money I guess.

 

[StephenB]

What was Microsoft's logic behind the decision not to support one of their
own products in Windows Mail?

I suspect that there was no logic. It is likely a bug at this point in the
development cycle. However, it is possible that there is logic involved that the
OE/Mail MVPs can reveal.
You can sign up for Windows Live Mail Desktop that has support for Hotmail/MSN
Mail at http://ideas.live.com

-steve

 

[Peter]

Thanks.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

 

[sim.seb]

I suspect that there was no logic. It is likely a bug at this point in the
development cycle. However, it is possible that there is logic involved
that the
OE/Mail MVPs can reveal.
You can sign up for Windows Live Mail Desktop that has support for
Hotmail/MSN
Mail at http://ideas.live.com

-steve

I think WLMD only supports MS Live Mail accounts (and on top of that only
Live Mail accounts signed up for the WLMD beta)

 

[Peter]

Ah well, back to the drawing board...I can always go to hotmail's site.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

 

[MICHAEL]

Ah well, back to the drawing board...

I can always go to hotmail's site.

Exactly! That way you get to see the advertisements,
if you are using OE or Windows Mail, that's less
eyeballs for Microsoft.

-Michael

 

[MICHAEL]

I suspect that there was no logic. It is likely a bug at this point in the
development cycle. However, it is possible that there is logic involved that the
OE/Mail MVPs can reveal.
You can sign up for Windows Live Mail Desktop that has support for Hotmail/MSN
Mail at http://ideas.live.com

A bug? I was under the impression there would be no more
OE or Windows Mail hotmail access.

-Michael

 

[mikeyhsd]

you can use HotPop to retrieve hotmail in WM.



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"Peter" <ex-brit AT rogers DOT com> wrote in message Ah well, back to the drawing board...I can always go to hotmail's site.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
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ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

 

[Peter]

It failed because I'd merely imported the account .iaf from Outlook express
in XP. This time I set it up manually as I have a workaround because all my
mail is filtered by Spamcop so I can pop it via their servers, this time it
works.

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 X 2 + Vista Beta
P4 HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 AGP Graphics

 

[StephenB]

I think WLMD only supports MS Live Mail accounts (and on top of that only
Live Mail accounts signed up for the WLMD beta)

No, MSN and Hotmail accounts not converted to Live accounts are supported in
WLMD Beta, albeit with all the bugs of WLMD Beta.
-steve

 

[StephenB]

A bug? I was under the impression there would be no more
OE or Windows Mail hotmail access.

-Michael

For paid accounts, yes, OE access will continue and hopefully Windows Mail, too.
WLMD Beta also provides access.
-steve

 

[sim.seb]

No, MSN and Hotmail accounts not converted to Live accounts are supported
in
WLMD Beta, albeit with all the bugs of WLMD Beta.
-steve

And they don't have to be Premium?

 

[Peter]

Plus grandfathered free accounts.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

 

[StephenB]

And they don't have to be Premium?

They have to be Premium or older accounts that have not been disabled yet.
-steve

 

[John Glossop]

Hi,
I've just loaded Vista and office 2007, and setting up Hotmail in the Office
outlook program is a snap, so they obviously aren't cutting off all ways of
getting to Hotmail.

John

 

[Randy Cragin]

I guess the next question is, will they change address from @hotmail.com to
@live.com?

Plus grandfathered free accounts.

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio

 

[StephenB]

I guess the next question is, will they change address from @hotmail.com to
@live.com?

As far as I know, there are no plans to do this. I believe you'll have the
option to get a new @live address and migrate your Hotmail account, but you
won't have to.
-steve

 

[Guest]

Hi John,

Are you downloading messages easily? I have not been able to download
messages, though creating the account was certainly a snap.

TIA,

Shaun