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Hotmail Means to Double Gmail Storage
deputydink writes "Osviews reports that Microsoft's free email service, Hotmail, is throwing down to Google by increasing the free storage to 2GB! I wonder how choked the Hotmail Plus subscribers will be."
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My near 9 year old account was upgraded about a week ago. I went from 85% full (with ruthless pruning) to 1% full. Also the amount of spam I recieve has dropped dramatically recently. I bought Mailwasher pro 6 months ago, but hardly use it anymore, as there isnt anything to delete. When G-mail was anounced, I was ready to jump ship, but very reluctantly, as I had my hotmail address for so long. Now that I've got 250Mb for free, with 10Mb attachments, I no longer feel the urge at all anymore. Competition.... Its great, isnt it. Surur
Information is the location of things. Computation is moving things around.
Along with the 100MB of storage, it includes hosting, several commercial applications, and several discounts on software and subscription. .mac also lets you access your bookmarks from any computer with internet access.
Oh Dear Lord! Mac has done it again. Now you can access your bookmarks from any computer! Only a Mac zealot would think this was even worth saying. I mean, it isn't news that I can export my bookmarks from Mozilla, Firefox, insert_browser_here, upload them to any ftp space or, brace yourself, email them to myself.
Then I, too, can "ACCESS MY BOOKMARKS FROM ANYWHERE!" (cue trumpets) Guess what OS I'm using. Wait. It doesn't matter!
Well, we probably all just imitated Mac, right?