Hotmail, the consumer email from Microsoft, according to Cnet should open on Monday in support of Exchange ActiveSync, the proprietary protocol used by the editor to ensure data synchronization between a given terminal and a hosted service remotely.
Specifically, it should be, since it has a smartphone or a compatible mail client, automatically synchronize contacts between the local address book and one that is associated with a Windows Live account.
This announcement also paves the way for a push, this feature increasingly demanded that makes the arrival of a new message is posted automatically, without requiring the client to go himself periodically verify the box reception.
With Hotmail, Microsoft has not always been at the forefront of uses. The POP3 protocol, although one of the most common, and for a time has been proposed as an option to pay using the service! The IMAP is still waiting for him. The publisher, however, caught up in a part of its service lags behind competitors such as Google's Gmail already supports the Exchange functionality for several months.
