Michael
Thu May 15 11:08:20 PDT 2008
Free Hotmail accounts are still available.
Several years ago (I don't recall the exact date) Microsoft made a
change. If prior to that cut off date, you had accessed your free
Hotmail account via Outlook Express, you could continue to do so. If
you had not accessed the account with Outlook Express prior to that date
or you got a free Hotmail account after that date, then you only had web
access. For the non-grandfathered accounts you would have to pay for
Hotmail Plus if you wanted to access the account via a mail client such
as Outlook Express.
At some point (previously announced as June 30, 2008 but later postponed
to some future date not yet announced) the HTTP access in Outlook
Express (known as WEB DAV) will stop working for both free grandfathered
accounts as well as the paid Hotmail Plus accounts. The POP3 access for
Hotmail Plus accounts will continue to work with any mail client.
Hotmail is going to drop the Web DAV support on the server end in favor
of the newer Delta Sync. This is currently supported in the Window Live
Mail client and works with all Hotmail accounts, free or paid,
grandfathered or not.
--
Mike -
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"Alan" <somewhere@nospam.not> wrote in message
news:#JJe0rqtIHA.3604@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi winston,
>
> I've had a Hotmail account for probably over 10 years, and I've never
> had to -- and still don't -- pay anything.
>
> Were those of us, who did have Hotmail at the time Hotmail began
> charging, 'grandfathered' in to continue receiving it at no charge?
>
> Alan
>
> "...winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:41A10BD7-CCC7-4901-A1AE-49D1D3E69A41@microsoft.com...
>>A subscription to Hotmail(US, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico)
>>is currently $19.95 per year and has been that for quite some time.
>>If your plan is $14.99 per year, then others would be paying a premium
>>of $4.96 per year.
>>
>> If it is a Hotmail Plus account then Pop3 retrieval should also work.
>>
>> --
>> ...winston
>> ms-mvp mail
>>
>>
>> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:uXWYcEmtIHA.4376@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> This has nothing to do with Windows Update so I'm crossposting my
>>> reply to MSN Discussion & Internet Mail newsgroups (the latter is
>>> monitored by the Windows Live Hotmail team, or so they've told us).
>>>
>>> Is it a name@hotmail.com account or a name@msn.com account?
>>>
>>> If this looks familiar, you're saving $60 a year:
>>>
http://get.live.com/en-us/mailplus/features
>>>
>>> Windows Live Hotmail Support
>>> https://support.live.com/eform.aspx?productKey=wlmail&ct=eformts
>>>
>>> Windows Live Hotmail Plus Support
>>> https://support.live.com/signin.aspx?productKey=wlmailplus
>>> --
>>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
>>> AumHa VSOP & Admin
http://aumha.net
>>> DTS-L
http://dts-l.net/
>>>
>>> wally wrote:
>>>> Probably this seems "daft" but I have always paid for Windows
>>>> Hotmail etc.
>>>> etc. and to this day I do not know what this is for. 14.99 per
>>>> year.
>>>> All my friends do not pay for Hotmail. Where am I going wrong? What
>>>> am I
>>>> paying for? Sending info. to Microsoft does not help I have had
>>>> Hotmail and
>>>> MSN since 2001 and it does not make sense to me.
>>>
>>
>
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