If like me, you have used the automatic configuration of Hotmail on your Android/iPhone, and have come to hate Hotmail for it, then there is (finally) a proper solution for your Hotmail woes.
When I setup my email accounts on my Android, I followed the “add account” steps, which seemed to pickup the settings for Hotmail automatically. But what you get, is a sucky integration that doesn’t sync changes or read emails.
The breakthrough comes from configuring Hotmail with ActiveSync, as an Exchange account instead. When you do this, you get beautiful email integration and problem free.
Question is, in all the (almost) weekly updates from Hotmail and Microsoft’s Live team, how come they never mentioned it? why did I have to stumble across it while reading an article about iPads?
As usual, Microsoft doesn’t even mention that it works on Android, but I tried it and it does. Note to Microsoft:
When I setup my email accounts on my Android, I followed the “add account” steps, which seemed to pickup the settings for Hotmail automatically. But what you get, is a sucky integration that doesn’t sync changes or read emails.
The breakthrough comes from configuring Hotmail with ActiveSync, as an Exchange account instead. When you do this, you get beautiful email integration and problem free.
Question is, in all the (almost) weekly updates from Hotmail and Microsoft’s Live team, how come they never mentioned it? why did I have to stumble across it while reading an article about iPads?
As usual, Microsoft doesn’t even mention that it works on Android, but I tried it and it does. Note to Microsoft:
Just cause a user has a phone from a competing platform, doesn’t mean they don’t use Microsoft services
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