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Hotmail Mobile Usage Spikes Thanks To Apple iOS 5

Posted by samzenpus on from the strange-bedfellows dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft is proud to announce that mobile usage of its Hotmail service has exploded in the past few weeks, and guess who is to thank? Apple! More than 2 million Apple users linked their Hotmail accounts to their iPhones and iPads since the launch of iOS 5."

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  1. Hotmail, is that still around? by Compaqt · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought it had relocated to the Internet Archive, along with MySpace, Friendster, and GeoCities.

    Or is it waiting for Yahoo, and they'll go together?

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  2. Re:RIP please? by Ihmhi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't you mean Windows Bing Livemail Yahoo Hot 2010 Professional Edition?

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  3. 1 in 10 iPhone users use Hotmail by Outtascope · · Score: 4, Funny

    Things are now clear to me. I guess the other 9 are too busy looking for their geocities page to bother with email.