Microsoft to discontinue DAV email protocol September 1st

Microsoft to discontinue DAV email protocol September 1st

In a blog post on Windows Live Wire, Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue the DAV protocol for accessing Hotmail on September 1, 2009.  DAV (or WebDAV) is an older protocol, not suited ... Read more »
POP3 Technology Has Now Rolled Out To Hotmail Customers Worldwide

POP3 Technology Has Now Rolled Out To Hotmail Customers Worldwide

Hotmail POP3 access on the way? No, it’s here! POP3 technology has now rolled out to Hotmail customers WORLDWIDE! What is POP3? It is a protocol that allows retrieval of your emails in almost ... Read more »
Hotmail POP3 access now available for US, Brazil, 9 others

Hotmail POP3 access now available for US, Brazil, 9 others

Legacy mail protocol POP3, which has gained some favor because it allows access to Hotmail accounts from Gmail and/or the iPhone, has now been rolled out to Brazil and US users, according to Ars ... Read more »
Hotmail update starts rolling out for all users, POP3 coming to the US

Hotmail update starts rolling out for all users, POP3 coming to the US

Today the Hotmail team has finally announced the start of the roll out process for all users worldwide to the latest Wave 3 update of Hotmail and People. The Hotmail team has been hard ... Read more »
Hotmail POP3 access on the way: Omar Shahine explains

Hotmail POP3 access on the way: Omar Shahine explains

We spent the day today (Jan 13) on campus, talking to some of the people who have helped to bring you Wave 3.  In quite a coincidence, one of them was Omar Shahine, who ... Read more »
POP3 Access for Hotmail here/coming soon?

POP3 Access for Hotmail here/coming soon?

A Dutch website, www.iphoneclub.nl, is reporting that at least some users are able to access Hotmail on their iPhones using POP3, which has been promised for Hotmail for free but up until now has ... Read more »
POP3 on Hotmail Explained: we talk to Omar Shahine

POP3 on Hotmail Explained: we talk to Omar Shahine

POP3, a protocol for getting email from a server to a client, has been around a long time, but it hasn’t been generally available for Hotmail users. With the advent of so many different ... Read more »