Hiya! Welcome to the forums,
I do not think you can save your contacts from your hotmail address book to your comp. But what you can do ( only thing I suggest) is to compose a message, click on all the contacts you want to add to messenger and in the box with all the contacts you were going to send the mail to, highlite them all hit CTRL C and open wordpad/notepad and his ctrl v. And it should put the emails there. Then just copy and pastethe contacts 1 by 1 to your contact list. I hope this helps.
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