anyone else having trouble with Outlook and Hotmail?

[ThePiston]

Are things getting werid for you using Outlook to get your Hotmail? Me and a friend both can't seem to log in using Outlook anymore.

 

[sswingle]

Microsoft took it away. You need to pay for that feature now. Outlook should say something to that effect in its error message, with a web page to go to with more info.

 

[ThePiston]

So you have to pay to get your Hotmail using Outlook now? Hmm, I'v ebeen waiting for a reason to use my comcast mail exclusively....

thanks

 

[JBT]

Uhh thats not true... I have recieved plenty of hotmail emails today... It still works, but yes it has been acting up lately for me.

 

[sswingle]

Well, maybe you are lucky, or they haven't done it to all accounts, or...i dunno
Heres a screenshot: http://sscustomcomputers.com/pics/outlook.GIF

 

[NightCrawler]

$400 for Office and we can't even get Hotmail via pop...so sad. Thank God for Gmail !!!!!

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
Well, maybe you are lucky, or they haven't done it to all accounts, or...i dunno
Heres a screenshot: http://sscustomcomputers.com/pics/outlook.GIF

Oh sorry, didn't mean to be a jerk, I just hadn't seen that before. I guess when they do that to me I will be saying good by to my hotmail accounts. Its funny how they will probably lose business by doing this.

 

[NightCrawler]

Checking multiple accounts via Outlook was very nice. Would suck to start having to go through the browser.

I'm sure someone will create a YahooPops type app.

 

[sswingle]

And now it works again. I left my accounts set up, and tonight I noticed they worked in Outlook just like normal. I wonder if MS received a lot of negative feedback about it and decided to switch it back to free.

On a related topic, I noticed on one account I have 200 mb of storage and on another I have 2. Whats up with that? The account I use the most is stuck with 2. OH well, slowly moving everything over to my POP mail account anyways.