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Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage Boost
BobPaul writes "Following behind Yahoo Mail's recent upgrade to 100MB of free storage, and trailing behind GMail's 1GB (last mentioned here), ZDNet reports that Hotmail will soon boost email storage as well. 'The upgrade will increase Hotmail's free e-mail storage limits from 2 megabytes to 250MB and its paid e-mail service, which costs $19.95 a year, from 10MB to 2 gigabytes. The changes will begin in early July.' Another interesting tidbit from the article: 'Ask Jeeves also plans to grant its e-mail subscribers more storage room... According to an e-mail sent to iWon users, Ask Jeeves plans to give each of the sites' e-mail subscribers 125MB of free storage.'"
...they will come But what the feck am I gonna do with 250MB of spam ??
Step 1 - on April 1st, give away 1G mail boxes to all - start with a small Beta group
Step 2 - invest in Hard drives, and wait until MS and others implement size increases
Step 3 - declare it was a joke all along
Step 4 - ???
Step 5 - IPO !!!
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power, just because some watery tart threw a sword at you
I have close to 40 gigs of email storage, if I want to fill up my /home partition.
Pretty Sweet. I have a gmail account but there's no way I'm filling it up. I've only been able to get 4 megs of mail in the past 3 months. I doubt I'll ever reach the 250 meg limit from Hotmail. Good Job MS responding to competition. :)
250 MB email? I love competition. Not to mention that's one big storage dump on the net. Now let's see how the RIAA can find me transferring MP3's over e-mail
Just think, 250Mb of spam to deal with when you come back from holiday.
Cress, cress, lovely lovely cress
If Google all of a sudden now says: "Meh, we tried it out with the testing phase, and we've decided not to start a email service at this time".
Now that Yahoo and Hotmail and everyone else has done the "look, we're offering 1Gig storage too!"
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
Not to mention its less evil! When you use google, only part of your soul is consumed. Better than the alternative I say.
I bet this is a new and uncomfortable experience for Microsoft, eh?
Who doesn't like free music?
You should have just posted that in whatever your first language was, I'm sure more people could have understood it.
:) )
TRANSLATION:
Hmm. True. Imagine if Google hadn't launched GMail, you would still have only 2mb on hotmail, like you've had for the last 8 years! On the other hand most of the email I receive is SPAM or junk mail forwards (Almost 2mb worth), now I have 200mgs to look forward too, (wait until I get 2gbs! Haha
In Mojave space port, you can go into space. In corporate MS Hotmail, space comes to you...
Dear Customer
We are storry to inform you that becuase our Xstor RAID isn't scalable enough and its RAID cannot be rebuilt online, we are currently unable to provide any extra space to our faithful customers.
Please wait until the new and more powerful version of Xstor RAID is released and check back again!
Sincerely,
Apple Customer Service
New Delhi
Hotmail spam protection is actually very good
I spent ages trying to think of sig, but never did
Now imagine if Google drops the project!
\m/
Google turns the tables to imitate its rivals. Changes motto to "Be Evil."
Is the bee's knees similar to the cat's ass?
If your not sure, sent an invite to gmail and I will do a thorough analysis for you!
since when does any of that info have to be truthful? With all the signups I do, I've probably singlehandedly increased the number of 97-year-old Albanian midgets making $200K by 300% in the last 6 months.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
Backup your Hotmail account
Argh, now all my crappy accounts have tons of space, but I still can't try out gmail. :( It's a conspiracy, as I've never gotten an Orkut invite either. :|
Google's GMail Business Plan:
1.Offer 1GB email storage capacity to a few thousand users in a beta program
2.Wait for competitor's to match your offer and lose millions by offering 100x more storage capacity as before for free
3.Cancel beta test and never launch service
4.PROFIT!!!
I invite you all to Hotmail but can anyone invite me to Gmail? :-)