While Omar Shahine has been kind enough to talk to us (twice) about POP3 support in Hotmail, it’s not really what he works on.  Omar has been busy down in Mountain View, California, working on Hotmail, and the People features in Windows Live Wave 3.  In the second part of our chat with him, he gives us a quick overview of the new features in Wave 3 dealing with people.  Omar explains that contacts updates are now automatically “dynamic” (before Wave 3 it required an opt in), so that when you update information in your profile the people you give permission to access that info will be kept up to date.

In the next few weeks we should be seeing some new stuff in Hotmail: POP3 access of course; web messenger, and even a few surprises.  Keep an eye out, and of course keep checking back with us here at LiveSide!