Hi, Apple mail does supp ort exchange. I wonder if it is possible to get it to work,. If so I will work on switching to hotmail asap.
Matthew On Aug 23, 2012, at 11:22 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: > Hello List, > > I want to keep this brief since it’s been discussed a lot, but for anybody > who is sort of on the fence about which email protocol to use and maybe is > looking to decide whether to go with gmail or Hotmail, I wanted to mention > that Hotmail just got a pretty significant face lift and Microsoft has > introduced @outlook.com email addresses. I right away went and reserved > [email protected], I guess having a somewhat more unique name helped. > > Anyhow, it looks as if Microsoft is rebranding Hotmail as Outlook because > even if I sign in to Hotmail/Windows Live mail with my Hotmail address, it > then says at the top of the website Outlook – [email protected]. As for the > site itself, the interface is quite clean, you can even enable gmail or Yahoo > keyboard shortcuts and of course the Exchange Active Sync protocol is used > which works extremely smoothly for keeping email, contacts and calendars in > sync between iDevices and PC computers. I say PC computers because apparently > Mac computers do not support setting up a Hotmail/Windows Live Mail account > even though the mail client uses EAS, but I am not a Mac user hence I am not > too knowledgeable in that department. > > Skydrive integration will come soon and the Skydrive app is very accessible, > I can see and open a lot of my files on the computer with the Skydrive app on > my iPhone, I haven’t tried Word or Excel files, but definitely it works well > for text files, pictures etc. > > I understand that Skype integration is on the horizon as well and Outlook > 2013 which is coming later this year or early next year will have native > support for the new Outlook/Hotmail accounts and it is no longer necessary to > download the Outlook Connector Pack. This is getting a lot of very favourible > reviews and I have read quite a few where this new version of Hotmail/Outlook > was considered to be a better email service than gmail, of course you’ll find > gmail reviews which would say the same. In some circles Hotmail just had a > reputation which was undeserved or has been undeserved for some years because > Microsoft has made it into a top notch email service and offering > @outlook.com email addresses I think is very smart. Just don’t confuse it > with Outlook the email client, it has the name, but apart from that there is > no connection. I thought since syncing email between iPhones, iPads and > computers has come up so much lately that this might be of interest to a > number of people on the list. I personally have a gmail account, but rarely > use it because I am a big fan of Hotmail/Windows Live Mail/Outlook because > IMAP doesn’t do contacts and for me syncing contacts is very important. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
