Originally Posted By: tfabris
Yup, just a sense of academic curiosity, wondering aloud why it's so tough to to make a web-based mail service launch from a mailto link.

Essentially I was trying to point up a limitation in Windows, especially with more and more people going web-based with their mail. Perhaps that's an imaginary limitation, maybe it's really easy to do and I just don't know the method.


Not that I have a hotmail account, nor a windows box that I want to try on, but anyhow...

Windows XP allows you to set Hotmail as the e-mail button at the top of the start menu by going into the taskbar properties. Does that also change the mailto links somehow? And is this being done in a standard way, or (the likely answer) a MS proprietary and undocumented way?