Hotmail DAV protocol retired; affects Outlook, OE, Entourage

As expected, Microsoft has retired its Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) protocol for grabbing e-mails from Windows Live Hotmail. DAV is being pushed aside in favor of DeltaSync, which works more efficiently with large inboxes (Hotmail offers a storage space scheme that increases the space available as the need arises). E-mails will still be accessible [...]