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Hotmail Means to Double Gmail Storage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the adding-pressure dept.

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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  1. WAR! by alaric_uk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Holy storage wars!

    1. Re:WAR! by iezhy · · Score: 5, Funny

      My God, 2 Gb of "increase your penis/tits", "buy viagra" and "super xxx site" spams? i wont bare it...

    2. Re:WAR! by Svennig · · Score: 5, Funny

      You wont bare it? Thank god for that!

    3. Re:WAR! by gnu-generation-one · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Increase your mailbox size by 100%!!!"

  2. I'm holding out... by mellonhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    Until they come out with a free service that includes the installation of a server with a terabyte of storage in my basement.

  3. Great! by BluRBD!E · · Score: 4, Funny

    No I can save ALL of my spam... instead of the daily gigabytes worth.

  4. Unlimited by neilmoore67 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some of the storage space figures being bandied around are so outlandish that it wouldn't surprise me if someone trumps them all by offering free unlimited storage space (perhaps they already have).

    They can always boot people from the service if they use too much space anyway. :-)

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  5. Easy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... upgrade your girlfriend.

  6. now it comes to the point - by teemu.s · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whos more evil? The Devil whos heading towards World OS Domination or the Devil who wants to provide you personalized ads by reading your mail ...

  7. No problem. by cablepokerface · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since you are posting on /. your girlfriend problem must be hypothetical.

  8. A note from Microsoft. by iamdrscience · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Hotmail Users,

    I.O.U. 1,998 Megabytes.

    Sincerely,
    William H. Gates

    1. Re:A note from Microsoft. by SEE · · Score: 5, Funny

      Cheapskate. You could at least have made the IOU for 2,046 megabytes . . .

  9. Re:...so? by R.Caley · · Score: 5, Funny
    no more searching for that e-mail someone sent you 6 months ago that you're sure you put in the "coding" folder-- or was it "scripting", or "ai", or "todo"?

    Gee guys, whatever happened to grep?

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  10. Thank you Google! by uberchicken · · Score: 4, Funny

    I love it. Google pilot a big-box email beta system, and we all get 2Gb Hotmail.

    Thank you, thank you, thank you, Google of Sherwood.