the features that Office Live offer with the premium email would be the ability to forward to non msn based accounts (example: yahoo.com aol.com)
ad free emails (no ads at the bottom of emails that are being sent)
and the ability to keep a copy of the forwarded mail in the original inbox.
Unfortunately also since hotmail plus is not one of the office live products, we really don't know much about the product.
Unfortunately even us at office live have not been provided much detail, and a lot of the how-to's and help features have not been finished. We have not been provided an e.t.a on when this will be done. However, now that brian has brought this to my attention, i will make a point of bringing this information to the attention of the people that can do something about this
as always it's a pleasure brian
- Reid
Microsoft Office Live Customer Support Representative
p.s. we actually don't provide pop access with any of our accounts. all of it runs via http for the office live services.
HOWEVER. if hotmail email services offer pop settings, you can try to use those settings. as to whether or not it works, I wouldn't know for sure. in theory it should.