Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage Boost

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday June 23, 2004 @10:39PM from the more-more-more dept.

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.'"

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MSN Hotmail: behind the competition by n0dez · 2004-06-23 23:56 · Score: 1, Troll

Facts about MSN Hotmail

1. They will only give you more space if two (or more) competitors give you at least 50 times more MB. (Y!Mail: 100MB, MSN Hotmail: 2MB)

2. If someone tries to send you an email from a non-Hotmail, 99% of his or her email messages are bounced back with reason "action failed".

3. From time to time, they will put JavaScript code in MSN's Website so non-IE browsers (such as Opera) can't access MSN.com. They will do it in a way that it appears that Opera (or other browsers) suck.