Use Outlook to access Windows Live Hotmail
If there's one thing I've just about had enough of, it's Windows Live Hotmail but with Microsoft Outlook Connector there is a way around it.
If you want to avoid Windows Live Mail's bloated, unintuitive, RAM sapping, vomit inducing interface you can use Outlook to access it instead using Microsoft Outlook Connector. Microsoft Outlook Connector allows you to access any Windows Live Hotmail (and Office Live Mail) account from the far more civilized Microsoft Outlook.
With Microsoft Outlook Connector, you can use Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 to access and manage your e-mail messages and contacts for free which is great although rather annoyingly (and typically Microsoft), management of calendar, tasks and notes requires a subscription fee. If you do pay for this, you can synchronize multiple calendars between different Microsoft applications such as Microsoft Outlook and Windows Live Calendar through Microsoft Outlook Connector.
Microsoft Outlook Connector also means you benefit from Outlook's spam filter which you can apply to Windows Live Hotmail's incoming mail so no more mails from fake political exiles requesting you to send your account details so they can deposit a million dollars in your account (I get these constantly and am starting to think that being a political exile must be extremely lucrative).
If you're an Outlook user, you'll never go back to using Windows Live Hotmail's own interface after trying Microsoft Outlook Connector.
User reviews about Microsoft Outlook Connector
by Shekhar Mehra
Con to grab my GMail details and personal details.
Absolute CON. Doesn't work. Says you dont have MS Outlook 2002 or later installedwhereas I DO have MS Outlook 2010 as part of MS Office 2010
Cons:
It is a scam to grab personal info More
by Anonymous
Comments on emails.
The software is excellent. An additional funtion that i would like to see is to be able to add a comment on an email and be able to view these comments while selecting the emails. More