Techzone

According to a report in ars technica, Microsoft has plans to offer POP3 access to all users of Windows Live Hotmail. As of September 2008, Windows Live Hotmail Plus — subscribers pay $19.95 a year — users have had the option of using POP3 (pop3.live.com on port 995) from any device with an e-mail application. This has certainly led to a lot of outcry from hardcore Hotmail users, who do not have access to this feature, more so because other e-mail services offer it.

But we must mention that it was not an official nod from the software giant. The report was published based on an answer to a question in windowslivehelp.com, where the answerer states that "there is a plan on releasing POP3 to free Hotmail account users. However, he went ahead to say that they do not have a "definite date on when this will happen."