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Cool new features of Hotmail rolling out soon
Bink.nu — It’s that time again! The Hotmail team has been hard at work since our last release in the fall, and we’ve got a bunch of new features coming out… and we’re rolling them out now! Your Hotmail account has seen a number of awesome changes in the past few months - we’ve introduced a great new look ...

POP3 Access to Hotmail and Features
Bink.nu — ... times, and more. We’re trying this out in the US and the UK to get feedback for now, but more places are on the way. A little more social . Open your Hotmail to the Today page to see what's new with the people you know, like the latest stuff they’ve posted on blogs, Twitter or Flikr. A new way to get Hotmail on your phone. POP3 technology is available to Hotmail users in a bunch of countries for free now, so it’s easy to add Hotmail to the e-mail program on your phone. Check out this blog to find out more. More style. Choose from more themes and edit your email signature ...

Free Hotmail POP3 Access Now Available in U.S. Too
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — Thanks to Tech Night Owl Live host Gene Steinberg for alerting me to the fact that Hotmail (officially known as Windows Live Hotmail) is now offering POP3 access for free. That may seem oh-so-twentieth-century, but for the gazillions of Hotmail subscribers, it's a welcome way to read messages sent to Hotmail in a desktop email client like Apple Mail, Microsoft Entourage, Mailsmith, PowerMail, or Eudora. More interestingly, POP3 access to Hotmail lets you combine multiple Webmail accounts, since you could have Gmail pick up email from Hotmail via POP, for instance, or let you access Hotmail via your iPhone or Blackberry in the native mail client. Until ...

Hotmail Enables POP3 for U.S. Users [Windows Live]
Lifehacker — ... users has been activated in the U.S. Say hello to getting Hotmail into Gmail, non-Microsoft-made mail clients, and many other places. Microsoft has been rolling out POP3 importing access to a number of countries since mid-January, including Canada, the U.K., most of western Europe, and elsewhere. The details you need to plug into your mail client or other webmail account, though, should be the same. Here's the list, as posted by the Windows Live team : POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995) POP SSL required? Yes User name: Your ...

Hotmail POP3 access now available for US, Brazil, 9 others
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... and numerous other reports.  This would bring the number of countries with free Hotmail POP3 support to 11, adding to the list provided by the Windows Live blog in January.  Here’s the setup info: ...

Hotmail Finally Enables POP3 Worldwide [Windows Live]
Lifehacker — ... , but POP3 access is finally available to everybody. Setting it up is fairly simple in most email applications just create a new account using the following details from the Windows Live team : POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995) POP SSL required? Yes User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@ ...