Microsoft, as promised, started rolling out ActiveSync support for Hotmail on August thirty.Hotmail;s assistance for Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) is offered to all current Hotmail users globally currently, a spokesperson mentioned. (To put it differently, this isn;t a gradual rollout, like the delivery with the new Wave four Hotmail is.)The new push synchronization assistance is supported on Windows Cellular 6.x,
Windows 7 Product Key, Windows Phone seven, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Nokia E_Series,
Office 2010 Activation, S-Series and N-Series phones. But it will not perform right off the bat with Android devices.According to Microsoft, the “Hotmail team will add Android to list of supported products in the coming months after testing is completed.” Access from Android 2.1 is not currently supported due to known client issues on Android 2.1,
Genuine Office 2010, Microsoft officials stated. Yet, “(t)here are customers successfully syncing from Hotmail via the default application or the Touchdown application on Android 2.2,” the Sofites added.(Update: Microsoft might possibly be saying it is not yet “officially” supporting Android with Hotmail ActiveSync,
Microsoft Office 2007 Key, but my ZDNet UK colleague Mary Branscombe and others say they;ve gotten EAS to function to varying degrees on various Android phones.)Microsoft has provided steps for enabling Hotmail ActiveSync on these various units.Hotmail ActiveSync enables users to get their mail,
Office Home And Business 2010, calendar and contacts pushed automatically to their phones using the Exchange ActiveSync protocol. Changes made on phones will be reflected about the Web and vice-versa. For customers already using e-mail clients on their PCs that at this time sync with Hotmail — like Outlook with all the Outlook Connector or Windows Live Mail — Hotmail sync also will be supported.LiveSide.net noted back in June 2010 that Microsoft was testing ActiveSync for Hotmail, and that a number of people had it working. In mid-August — shortly after Microsoft announced it had completed rolling out the new Hotmail Wave four release to all of its Hotmail end users — LiveSide reported that some people were able to access ActiveSync for Hotmail, but some were not