Microsoft Shuts off HTTPS in Hotmail for Over a Dozen Countries

Your Windows Live ID can’t use HTTPS automatically because this feature is not available for your account type.

Hotmail users in the affected countries can turn the always-use-HTTPS feature back on by changing the country in their profile to any of the countries in which this feature has not been disabled, such as the United States, Germany, France, Israel, or Turkey. Hotmail users who browse the web with Firefox may force the use of HTTPS by default—while using any Hotmail location setting—by installing the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox plug-in.

source : https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/03/microsoft-shuts-https-hotmail-over-dozen-countries