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
>  
> 
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