“Well, you didn’t see this coming, did you? Hotmail, which due to some feat of magic remains the world’s most popular webmail client, has exploded on Apple’s mobile products since the introduction of the latest firmware edition, iOS 5,” Alex Wilhelm reports for TNW.
“According to Microsoft, some 2 million Hotmail accounts have been linked to an iOS device since the 5th version was released, and some 100,000 are doing so daily,” Wilhelm reports. “Changes in iOS 5 made it much simpler to link a Hotmail account to an iOS gadget, and the response has been large thus far.”
Wilhelm opines, “But there is something vaugley dirty, you must feel, about Hotmail on an iPad. It’s a bit like bringing a 1999 Honda Accord to an open track day. It’s a bit out of place.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Don’t pollute your iOS device(s).
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Dan K.” and “krquet” for the heads up.]
People still use Hotmail accounts?
I didn’t think so… I can’t remember the last time I’ve emailed anyone with a @hotmail or @live email address…
Wow.
I always forget I have a hotmail/live email… Have to with a xbox360 gamer tag.
Never used it.
I know that my sister has hotmail, and so does my brother in law… My sister always has problems with her crapdroid and hotmail.
Their daughter followed my advice and got a Verizon iPhone 4 this summer. And loves it.
Outside of them, I don’t email any hotmail accounts.
I bet she’s cursing you now for not asking her to wait for Siri.
I’m in marketing/sales and am in contact with many businesses and individuals.
Many unaware micro-business owners use hotmail accounts as their primary business address – or gmail, yahoo or aol — even many who have their own domains and websites.
Many individuals also use the big 4 – even hotmail.
I use hotmail when I need to provide an email address in order to download something. I don’t use it for regular email, its just, rather aptly, a repository for cr@p…
Your screen name is Ballmer’s Sack but you censored “crap”? Wha?
Hotmail is still big internationally, especially in EMEA regions
I can’t decide which is worse, Hotmail or Gmail?
Both are Bad, except Gmail is Badder! mean…worst
…worser
… more worser.
Moosen!
In boxen.
Brilliant!!!!
I agree with MacMental. But I must admit the recent iOS versions of Bing have been pretty decent, even functioning better, in my opinion, that the apps GAGGLE (err Google) has put out.
I have a Gmail Yahoo Hotmail AOL and a .me account (iCloud). I’ve went from yahoo to hotmail to gmail to AOL to .me and it remains as my main account.
I keep a Hotmail address for Windows-related junk and a Yahoo address for spammy garbage. My GMail address is for subscriptions and reliably non-spammy commercial stuff and my iCloud address is for actual personal mail. Yahoo is absolutely the worst of all of them with ads popping up and flashing all over the place.
By the way, at the end of the article, the author says, “Microsoft says it is just getting started in iOS.” Apart from Bing, I don’t think they currently have any other product specifically for iOS. That makes me wonder if they’re finally going to attempt MS Office for iOS. I do perfectly fine without it, even when I receive Office files, I am able to open them with iWork.
They have acouple of Apps actually for iOS.
You should really check out Photosynth. It’s pretty amazing with a fast – iPhone 4 or above phone.
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/photosynth/id430065256?mt=8
This isn’t causing people to adopt Hotmail. This is just allowing those who an account to access it easier.
I wonder how iCloud is doing I’m having a hard time with it it’s horrible in my opinion and I can’t get anyone at apple who can answer this. I hate message boards and waiting for email responses I want to speak to some one a human about my mobileme frequently asked questions don’t solve crap. I can’t get findlay friends to work it keeps saying cannot connect to server then verify issues want your iTunes user name supposed to be come a iCloud account? What happens if your iTunes user name was the same as your mobile me are their technacly to email accounts with the same name?
Ever thought about using punctuation to break up your interminable sentences, like I did just then? People might actually be able to make sense of what you’re rambling on about.
I use Hotmail to subscribe to gay porn which Steve Ballmer particularly likes reading. It’s like a mental challenge for him.
Any leftovers go to Eric Schmidt. And when he’s done he passes it on to Larry Page who makes Andy Rubin read it.
That’s the reason why Android porn sits below WP7 porn. The gayest porn of all belongs to RIMjob.
Does your life completely revolve around genitals? Did you know that there is more to life than posting about that kind of fixation?
Well, when your named after one… 😉
This makes perfect sense. The new iPhone is attracting many first-time buyers, as are the $99 iPhone 4 and free iPhone 3gs; and many of those first-time buyers are Windoze dullards who are still using outdated email services like Hotmail and AOL.
Don’t call them Windows dullards, they’ll be Mac users soon enough.
IMAP is IMAP, as long as it doesn’t all have to go through Canada.
It is IMAP, isn’t it?
You gotta go through Canada to drive to Alaska.
Can we give Sarah Palin to Canada?
On second thought, they’d be smart enough not to accept.
Gee, we went this long with a political manure storm?
Teenage and 20something girls love to have their e-mail say “Hotmail.” That’s what keeps that mail address popular.
Hotmail isn’t the greatest but it’s more reliable than my .Mac/MobileMe mail. In Hotmail I don’t have to worry about email replies not going to my sent folder because I changed text on the subject line.
Probably all those Windows Mobile and PC users jumping ship. The number that is showing up as a massive increase are the rat head count and in turn will be that many fewer PC users.
Bad news in sugar coating.
Most secure way to use hotmail is on IOS devices. But that’s not the real issue with hotmail. I’ve had to setup rules on mail.app to send all mails from hotmail diretcly to the junk folder. The built in junk filter wasn’t enough to silence the crap from there. Assuming other people also manage to filter out hotmail junk, there’s a high probability that, if I were to use a hotmail account, other people would get my messages in their junk folder. Still a good way to give a bogus email address to potential spammer sites though.
So, iphone users be warned, hotmail will drain your battery downloading crap emails that you don’t want to read. Not giving that warning to android users cause, to them, that source of battery drain is a drop in the ocean.
I’ve managed to get a lot of my clients off Hotmail and onto ‘real’ email, but I always tell them if you really must use webmail, go to gmx.com. It’s way better than (s)hotmail, because it’s not Microsoft.
I have a gmx.com account, it’s one of the main ones I use.
A word of advice with gmx though, spammers like to use it. So the email servers that just flat out block anything from @gmx.com…. Is huge.
Comcast I always had to send a message to unblock my account probably ever other month, Craigslist refuses to unblock. there’s many more but I have to go to work at some point 🙁
I agree gmx is great, but they have a bad reputation among email servers, go look in gmx support, they have a FAQ on how to deal with your address being blocked..
Up here in the Great White North, Bell Canada’s client email system (sympatico ,.bell) is in fact hotmail.