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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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    1. Re:Hotmail, is that still around? by ad0gg · · Score: 4, Informative

      They are the largest web email provider out there followed by yahoo.

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  2. Re:RIP please? by skovnymfe · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's actually quite good these days. You should try giving it a second chance.

  3. If you are wondering why by will_die · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looking down a few links the reason for the increase is that iOS 5 added support for hotmail to the built in email program.

    1. Re:If you are wondering why by jonbryce · · Score: 5, Informative

      It already supported it. You set it up as an exchange account with the server m.hotmail.com. What is new is that you can now select hotmail as the option and it does it for you. Any existing exchange accounts configured to use the hotmail server now have the hotmail icon rather than the exchange one.

    2. Re:If you are wondering why by agentgonzo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That aside, there are still plenty of people who use iPhones who aren't that technologically literate. They won't know what server to connect to or what an exchange account is. All they know is that they have an iPhone and a Hotmail account. If there's an option in the mail app to configure an Exchange account, they won't bother. If there is one to configure a Hotmail account they'll go "Oooh, I can get my hotmail on my phone" and do it.

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

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

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  5. 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.

  6. Re:Doesn't explain why. by gmack · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Email addresses are hard to change. I know a lot of people who still have their email address from 10 years ago and don't want to touch it because that's the email address everyone has and tracking down everyone on the old address would be far too hard.

    I can understand the sentiment because I've had my email address for 14 years now and every once and awhile I get someone I haven't heard from in a few years get in contact with me using the address I gave them years ago.

  7. Re:Apple is losing it's hold by oudzeeman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    $150 million, not $5 billion. Microsoft bought 150 million dollars worth of non-voting shares as part of a patent licensing agreement, and also agreed to produce MS Office for OS X for at least 5 years (this was the important part, since many big software vendors had not yet committed to port their code to the new OS), and Internet explorer would be bundled as the default browser for 5 years (I think it was 5 years).

    Apple was a multi-billion dollar company with 1.2 billion in cash at the time. It was in trouble financially, but it probably could have survived without that $150 million.