Hello popowich,
Thank you for replying to my post.
I'm sorry about the time it took me to reply. I tried to conctact people in my country of residence that could tell me with a certain degree of confidence if there are any legal restrictioins for https connections. They told me there are...
I followed instructions to see if https is configurable but the alternative "Use HTTPS automatically" is not displayed in my account where a hotmail support specialist told me. For some reason it is located in a different place in my account.
I continued looking for the alternative and...