Going with setting program access and defaults. Looking at both XP & Vista
and I don't see any way to set your default e-mail program to hotmail. Most
none microsoft programs have to be installed to set them as a default, so I
don't see how you can get hotmail there at all, which by the way seems to be
lacking, still...
Going with using Windows Mail to access hotmail/MSn account similar to
outlook express, this feature is not available. I don't see it becoming
avaiable as hotmail/MSn is going to end up being Windows Live Mail
In either case setting your default e-mail to a webbased site with links set
to compose, inbox, etc would be a useful addition to the program access &
defaults.
In the meantime, since your doing the beta thing, why not try out Windows
Live Mail at the same time?