Microsoft to kill Hotmail via Outlook Express on September 1
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversIf you're still using Outlook Express for checking your Windows Live Hotmail, listen up.
Microsoft will be cutting off your access in three months. On September 1, 2009, the support for Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), the protocol that Outlook Express and a handful of older clients currently use to access Hotmail, will be discontinued.
As Neowin reported in April of last year, Microsoft originally planned to cut off access for Outlook Express users on June 30, 2008. However the WebDAV protocol got a stay of execution after users complained that it was too soon. Microsoft's management agreed and gave users another year to make the migration. Microsoft has stated that these changes are necessary to support the larger and larger mailbox sizes that Hotmail supports. The say that that due to WebDAV's age, it can no longer keep up with the demands placed on it.
Outlook Express was last included with Windows XP. Windows Vista includes Windows Mail, but it does not feature the direct Hotmail connection features that were present in Outlook Express. Windows Vista users who wish to connect to their Hotmail accounts can use Windows Live Mail, which uses Microsoft's new favored protocol, DeltaSync. Users of Outlook Express who wish to continue using the client can reconfigure the client to connect using POP3, which was added to Hotmail in March 2009.
As part of Microsoft's new distribution strategy, Windows 7 does not include any mail client by default, but users can optionally install Windows Live Mail.
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Comments(6)
i remember trying to access my hotmail account from "microsoft mail" since vista came
out but you cant so whos still useing outlook anyway??
install outlook connector from microsoft to get hotmail access for office outlook!
even itunes allows you to put outlook contacts on your ipod.
it's the most
widely-used email client in the world.
hmmm : just use pop3 settings ! no need to use crap connector.
its only outlook express which is being killed not the full version contained in
microsoft office which continues to use outlook connector
can anyone help with a problem of missing hotmail emails in outlook since i downloaded
the (upgrade) connector? some of the folders are empty in outlook, though i see them when
looking at hotmail via a browser. their online "help" service is a disaster and driving
me up a wall...
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