How-To Configure an iPhone or iPad with Microsoft Live Mail, Calendar & Contacts

Microsoft’s Hotmail works with the email apps for Windows Phone and its predecessor Windows Mobile. However, its lack of support for IMAP4 or even POP3 has made it difficult to integrate with non-Microsoft mobile platforms. Ironically, it did not even use Microsoft’s own Exchange ActiveSync which Google has used with great success for its web-based mail, calendar and contacts services.

However, Microsoft recently updated its web services to use its own Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). This means that platforms that support EAS can now work with Microsoft’s web services.

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