The eventual fate of Hotmail - would it be advisable for me to stick or switch?

I've moved up to another machine with Vista Premium and I'm baffled to find that I can't set up Windows Mail to get my Hotmail. I've utilized Hotmail for a considerable length of time (and I would prefer truly not to change to another record) and extremely loved having the capacity to deal with my distinctive email accounts by means of a solitary program, Outlook Express. Is it extremely pretty much Microsoft lashing publicizing space or are there benefits that I'm not yet mindful of that mean I should stick it out? Gavin Rand 

Microsoft has a long haul procedure, and expectations the future has a place with WLMd (Windows Live Mail Desktop). Quickly, the principal phase of mainstream email utilized work area projects, for example, Eudora and Outlook, while the second stage brought electronic administrations, for example, Hotmail. The third stage could be half and half projects that have both an on the web and a work area (or telephone) segment. That way you get both the speed and energy of an independent program, including disconnected working, with the comfort of an electronic framework.

For Microsoft's situation, the online part is Windows Live Hotmail, which is like Google's Gmail. The work area part is WLMd, which has been accessible in an open beta variant since last July. The Windows Mail program, which has supplanted Outlook Express in Vista, is a subset of WLMd. In the end I expect most Windows clients will have WLMd introduced.

Like most Microsoft Windows programs these days, WLMd is being produced with open input. You can get up to speed by perusing the More Than Mail blog keep running by the program director, Tanja Fournier. It's well done.

Be that as it may, my present proposal for those eager and ready to change is to utilize Gmail with Thunderbird, the buddy program to Firefox. Google doesn't charge for POP3 get to (eg by means of Outlook Express) and gives you a chance to utilize your own area name.