what may or may not be hard reality

Outlook access to Hotmail accounts only for paid members?? I mean, I've been moving slowly over to gmail anyway for some time now, but still! (At least this is what MSN's help told me. I guess it was just a coincidence that this occurred at the same time I got an 'some new features have not been intalled properly' when I was installing IE7 and I assumed that's why I wasn't getting my mail.)

Anyway, just to let you know that I'll be discontinuing my hotmail accounts shortly (as soon as I can figure out all the places I've used them and can change it to my gmail accounts).