Great stuff, just what I wanted.
So will it be renamed with the Windows Live stuff? Windows Live Mail for Windows XP Media Center 2005 edition Update Roll Up 2.1?

:)

I take the good stuff comment back, I have been told it's Hotmail Plus users only. I am not sure that the Media Center integration warrants paying for the the service, it's a real shame it's not open to all, it could move me back to hotmail from gmail

Works fine for me, including on xbox extender... not a Hotmail Plus user, just plain free regular Hotmail...

Interesting, I bet it's to do with WEBDAV access.
I think new hotmail users can't use Outlook Express to read hotmail but long standing users can as can plus users. So as I can out OE I bet it works for me