If you need Hotmail access, you can upgrade Windows Mail to
Windows Live Mail:
http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas
How is Yahoo now "restricted"? Outlook Express never had the
ability to access Yahoo webmail. Reportedly, there is a third party
add-on called YPOPs that may do what you want.
I don't see why MS should help out a webmail rival like Yahoo.
Yahoo should make free POP access available to everyone, such
as Gmail has now done. Yahoo is starting to go down the tubes,
and I saw in yesterday's paper that they are going to try some
new things to improve the situation.
Gary VanderMolen
"skysober" <skysober@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news

7EED86E-1EA3-400D-BAC5-80A873B10FE9@microsoft.com...
> since MS decided to restrict the use of hotmail and yahoo, most are now using
> Thunderbird. Yes, I whom have hated mozilla stuff forever and touted the
> advantages of MS programs, am also forced to leave Vista Mail unused until
> Microsoft FIXES their software to work correctly.