I think they figured that you had to have a Hotmail account to register Window 8 so you didn’t need anything else, “not the sharpest tools in the shed” are they. 
Maybe. That does not solve the lack of support for mailto:
I have looked for a way to set mailto: for hotmail, and found a way at
You can pull directly the hotmail mail compose page with this type of line :
http://www.hotmail.msn.com/secure/start?action=compose&to=email@domain.com&subject=My%20Subject%20Line&body=Email%20Body
You could use that to showURL such a line from the mailto: in your program.
Of course, when something goes wrong, stupid esoTalk edit won’t work. Grr.
Idiotic editor messed up the link I posted. Here is the exact URL. You can paste it into a browser address bar and it will open directly in Hotmail mail compose page :
http://www.hotmail.msn.com/secure/start?action=compose&to=email@domain.com&subject=My%20Subject%20Line&body=Email%20BodyThis is one continuous line wrapped after the question mark.