Developers can now integrate Hotmail across Android and iOS platforms

By Tyler Lee on 07/22/2011 04:32 PDT

If you’re still hanging on to your Hotmail accounts from back in the day, or perhaps you’re a Microsoft Live user, then you will be pleased to know that Microsoft is providing app developers the tools that will make integration with your smartphone possible.

When it comes to integration of services and features, platform developers tend to keep them in-house, for example Gmail for Android, and possibly Google+ as well in the future. One could make the argument that integration of certain widely used features and services might be able to reach out to a wider audience, which is probably the route that Microsoft decided to go when they released their developer platform.

What this does is that it will now allow app developers across iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 platforms to integrate the ability for users to access certain information such as photos and contacts from Hotmail, Messenger and SkyDive right from their devices.

Naturally the integration was more or less expected when it came to Windows Phone 7, but to now provide integration for Android and iOS, seems like Microsoft is trying to reach out to a wider audience. Any Hotmail users out there who might be thrilled by this news?

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Android Android is mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license.

iOS was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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