[Email] POP3 settings for Microsoft Live Hotmail

After a long waiting time finally microsoft decide to give POP3 access to Microsoft Live Hotmail. Now you can directly configure your hotmail account with Microsoft Outlook or any other email client program. There were couple of methods before but non was standard or reliable or free. 

Here is the POP3 settings for Microsoft Live (Hotmail) 

 - POP3 Server: pop3.live.com (port 995)  

 - SMTP Server: smtp.live.com (port 25)   

Note: Please make sure to check the box that indicates that your outgoing server requires authentication (in most e-mail clients, this is not checked by default). 

 - Username: your full e-mail address 

 - Password: your Windows Live ID password

More details can be found in Send and Receive Windows Live Hotmail emails from a Mail Client

Windows live Introduce SkyDrive

Windows live introduce 5 GB SkyDrive that acts like a online hard drive. In the Windows Experionce Blog they mentioned it as 25GB. So it is basically between 5GB to 25 GB storage.

Couple of good features of SKyDrive is

* you can download photos directly to Windows Live Photo Gallery
* Download as a Zip file
* Move/Copy files between folders.
* Share files directly from the SkyDrive
* Public file share or share with your freinds.

So if you want to keep a reasanble online disk space SkyDrive might be a good option.