High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, now called Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector, is a free add-in for Microsoft Outlook that allows users to access Windows Live Hotmail or Office Live Mail accounts through Microsoft Outlook. With this add-in, one can access e-mail messages and contacts in any Hotmail account for free. In version 12, access to tasks and notes and online synchronization with MSN Calendar is only available to MSN subscribers of paid premium accounts. Version 12.1 was released in December 2008 as an optional upgrade. Version 12.1 uses Windows Live Calendar instead of the former MSN Calendar. This also meant that calendar features became free for all users.