At the end of last week during a conference call following the release given its quarterly results, Google has revealed the total number of users for its Gmail service. To believe, the site The Next Web, it now covers 350 million Internet users. Gmail saves and a very strong growth since in October, the official figure was 260 million users. Internationally Gmail Yahoo! Mail would have exceeded that in October from a base of 310 million users.
Microsoft, which attempts to improve the image of Hotmail in recent years by implementing several new features, also has 350 million accounts. Google and Microsoft seem to be very close in this endless race. It is not known, however, if these figures include the Google Apps accounts or only addresses traditional in the form of @gmail.com. For its part clearly distinguishes Microsoft Hotmail and Outlook Web Access. Furthermore, it is the total number of accounts created on each server but not necessarily the number of active users.
One imagines that the integration of Skype within Hotmail or opening of the Google Voice abroad may be able to change that. Google has a large user base thanks to the success of Android while Microsoft expanding its mobile applications and announced yesterday that they were used by 15 million users on iOS (via Exchange) and Android. Finally the popularity of Windows Phone should also be decisive for the Hotmail team.
