You can always set your outlook express home page to hotmails

add the following

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\[Identity]\Software\Microsoft\
Outlook Express\5.0]
Value Name: FrontPagePath
Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
Value Data: URL or Filename

Still sucks but why pay for extra space and no ad's - IMHO it's just more room for more spam