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

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

  2. 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.

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

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

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