No more Outlook, Outlook Express access to free Hotmail
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Citing concerns about spammers abusing the service, Microsoft on Monday will announce that it is dropping a feature from its Hotmail service that currently allows non-paying customers to access their email from Outlook and Outlook Express. The feature is based on a technology called WebDAV (Distributed Authoring and Versioning), an extension to the HTTP protocol on which the Web is based.
Free Hotmail users who have already enabled Outlook or Outlook Express access to Hotmail won't be shut off immediately. Instead, Microsoft will phase them out over several months, and give them plenty of warning that the change is coming.