Only if you have a paid account that you can use OE or Outlook to get the mail with. From there just grab the settings from OE or Outlook from within Thunderbird and it should work.
I have a 'Valued' hotmail account, which means i can access my email using outlook/outlookExpress for free, however I run linux! Because hotmail uses some non standard protocol other email clients like thunderbird wont work - although as the link suggests there are people who are checking their hotmail accounts with thunderbird, so it is doable. - if you spot a way to do so with thunderbird under Linux let me know
Um, I just installed Thunderbird and I also want to use my hotmail account through Thunderbird. Could someone explain in a little bit more detail how I would go about setting this up. I would really appreciate it. When you say you just "chucked the pop3 adress for hotmail in there" I don't know what you mean.