Q&A: Why doesn't Entourage work with Hotmail anymore?

I got a question via email about using Entourage to access your Hotmail:

Using Entourage on an iMac. Suddenly Hotmail account doesn't want to work anymore. Saw your post regarding POP3 coming soon. Will that fix this problem?

Earlier this year, Hotmail made POP access free to all users. This is part of their effort to remove WebDAV support. WebDAV is the method that Entourage currently uses to connect to Hotmail.

If you currently use Entourage to connect to your Hotmail, and you find that it's suddenly not working any more, you'll need to set up a new account in Entourage to access it. The Entourage MVPs have a great post about how to set up Hotmail in Entourage as a POP account, and there's instructions in the Entourage online help to set up a Hotmail account.