Microsoft has announced that more than two million iOS users Hotmail have configured on their tablet or smartphone, especially iPhone 4 and 4S. This number would be in addition to every day with about a hundred thousand increase.
That made the company from Redmond announced on his weblog. Microsoft indicates that the number of 2 million iOS linked accounts is achieved after the release of version 5 of its mobile operating system. In iOS 5 it is easier to make Hotmail work on the iPhone or iPad; this need not longer using Exchange ActiveSync. Users of an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad can in the mail settings Windows Live Hotmail option, then only a user name and password are required to use Microsoft’s e-mail service working.
From the statistics it appears that Hotmail is mainly used in combination with an iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S. In other Apple devices that are compatible with iOS 5 is the e-mail service is less popular.
Hotmail is also available for other mobile operating systems. Microsoft supports its own Windows Phone, but there is also an app for Android. In addition, the e-mail service for BlackBerry and Symbian are configured.