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.'"

Comments

Capitalism hard at work...

[EmagGeek]

A shining example... nice... now I will be able to save 250MB worth of SPAM in my hotmail account :)

I wonder.....

[R1ch4rd]

Didn't GOOGLE take this April's Fool Joke too far ?

We should thank them for getting everyone to push the standard on web mail storage.

This would be the BEST April's Fool I know of.

Re:Too little too late

[Arker]

I agree, the system being unavailable at times is to be expected in a beta problem, and their system fails gracefully here - this is a good thing.

I haven't had my gmail account long enough to have much experience with it yet, but group by discussion seems great so far. I hope it handles threading correctly - by using the header information, not just the title of the message. If so, it's brought back a feature I remember from early email programs that the more modern ones all seem to mess up horribly.

Javascript everything is very sad, on the other hand. I'm really hoping that they'll have a usable WAP version soon, and a proper html one. Better yet would be IMAP access, of course, but I can see why they won't want to do that. An XUL interface would be great too. I'd be willing to bet that if they opened up some sort of accessible interface to their system others would quickly use it to code such things.

The only real complaints I have with it so far are the TOS (I almost backed out at that point, it's really horrible, and even though I don't believe click-throughs have any legitimate enforceability it really made me mad reading this thing... I only clicked on because I figured the worst they could realistically do is delete my account, and that most of it is clearly illegal and unenforceable... and I really wanted to see it, and do think google is a decent bunch of folks that will probably come around on this issue later) and the no-deletion thing. I don't care if it's a gigabyte, eventually I will fill that, what then? Particularly when the spam starts hitting, no-deletion just isn't going to work out forever.