Hotmail Mobile Usage Spikes Thanks To Apple iOS 5

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."

Re:RIP please?

[skovnymfe]

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

If you are wondering why

[will_die]

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

Re:If you are wondering why

[jonbryce]

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.

Re:Hotmail, is that still around?

[ad0gg]

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

Re:RIP please?

[BenoitRen]

It still does dumb user agent sniffing and throws tons of bad JavaScript at you. Its AJAXy interface breaks tabbed browsing.

As for the service itself, e-mail messages that aren't sent using Hotmail take a long time to arrive.

Quite good my ass.

Re:RIP please?

[the_fat_kid]

no, I'm waiting for Service Pack 2 to solve the synergy virtulisation problems I have when I use the hands free Clippy widget.