Internet Explorer v9 will include includes a great many performance & compatibility enhancements over its predecessors. For IE8, it has been useful to limit its rendering engine to display as IE7′s: for this, the X-UA-Compatible header is used, <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" /> as documented at MSDN. To target different versions of IE with different engines, [...]
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Windows Live (Hotmail) POP3/SMTP settings for Mozilla Thunderbird (and others)
June 5th, 2011 
Dan Phillimore Having been plagued by error messages from the Hotmail/Webmail extension for Thunderbird, I finally decided to try and fix the problem. It turns out that the extension is no longer supported (see also here) – as Hotmail is now available for POP3/SMTP use, details (set up for Thunderbird) are: POP3 (incoming) settings: POP3 Server: pop3.live.com [...]
