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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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They haven't even upped the normal 2 meg ones yet...
:)
Not that I'm really bothered by it, it's just always fun to see huge claims.
Webinterface, POP3/SMTP, server-side filtering and forwarding included.
Ahh the wonders of competition.
But Hotmail still lacks all the great features of Gmail such as labels, conversations, and keyboard shortcuts. Hotmail won't be nearly as good as Gmail is.
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considering the integration Outlook Express, Entourage et al have with Hotmail, for many people Hotmail *isn't* just "web"-mail.
that said, I'm still waiting for the storage upgrade they promised, up from 2MB to whatever. I was going to retire my hotmail account and go elsewhere, but I decided to wait when they announced. It's starting to sound like what they've been known to do in the past - announce vapourware in order to delay migration/movement to elsewhere.
This applies only to the Hotmail Plus service, which is not free.
They are increasing their limit for the free subscribers, but to 250MB. Hotmail plus or whatever, which is like $10 a year, gets the 2GB bump.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
RTFA... misleading /. headings strike again...
Reading the deeper linked article from the top linked article, which is: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17949/ It does not specifically mention the "free" snotmail account gets 2GB.
Reading M$N's page about it, http://www.imagine-msn.com/hotmail/en-us/ it looks like the M$N Plus accounts will get 2GB, which means the ones you pay $19.95/mo for. This is NOT the free snotmail account getting 2GB. These will get 250MB. Not GB, MB.
Jeez the /. editors need to do a little more fact checking eh? But /. editors actually RTFA??? Naaaahhhhh.
Google is still ahead in the actual FREE email storage space war. 100MB for Yahoo, 250MB for M$N. ... so, anyone got gmail beta invites? ;)
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The article got it a bit wrong. The free service will be offering only 250mb whereas hotmail plus will give you 2 gig. The free service emails will be limited to 10mb and plus will be 20mb. Still quite far behind Gmail it seems... http://www.imagine-msn.com/hotmail/en-us/
Hotmail is possibly the worst of the major email providers right now. Which other email provider occasionally gives you the message "service unavailable, try again later"? I started moving away from hotmail after the time I desperately needed to get to an email and it would continuously give me this message. My other peeve with Hotmail is that the junk mail folder counts towards the measly 2MB, so most of the time my mailbox is overflowing. Even if they give 2GB of space (when they do give it), I'm still moving away from them. Yahoo and GMail are definitely better alternatives.
But Microsoft have of course completely missed the point - it sure is nice to have a lot of storage space, but where GMail really wins is in ease of use and speediness of the site...
I wouldn't worry about it. I've got gmail, (bgracewood@gmail.com) and to tell the absolute truth, it really is not all that exciting.
The spam filtering is okay. I've had one or two legitimate list emails noted as false positives. Nothing new here.
Forum reply notifications get lumped under one big conversation because Google thinks they are part of a conversation. Err, bzzzzt wrong! Plus the funky javascript preview thing cuts off the most important part of those emails (the link to the forum thread).
The contacts system is an abomination. You can enter a name and an email and some notes. No room for address, phone or anything.
Sure it's a beta, but IMHO it's like a 0.4 rather than a 0.9 version.
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it was freebsd actually
I just logged into my Hotmail account directly (I rarely do this any more, thanks to this), and found that my mail limit was upped from a paltry 1MB to a whopping 2MB!
Seems like there is a kind of "reverse FUD" thing going on here...
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
GMX, a German ISP and free e-mail service, is offering 1GB for free. Bump that to 5GB for 3 EUR/month or 10GB for 5 EUR/month.
However the fun doesn't end here, as they also offer automatic POP/IMAP e-mail retrieval, custom filters for automatic redirection, SMS/MMS alerts, up to 15 aliases...
Oh, and did I mention you can use your capacity as an iDisk-like network disk and share your files with other GMX members? I think they even have a Windows plug-in to mount your storage account as a network drive in the Explorer.
Alas, AFAIK it's in German only. I for one, welcome our new German overlords...
2. Dynamic DNS service on your IP address from your ISP.
3. Procmail & fetchmail grabbing mail from the ISP mail server.
4. Strong firewall rules & SSH-only access with public & private keys.
5. Carry around your private key with Putty on a USB memory stick and / or a floppy disk.
I have 160GB of storage and can get to my email form just about any PC in the world. Plus I haven't got to worry about "yet another email account".
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The older people will remember MS promising the sky to stop people from adopting OS/2 and the younger can look to Longhorn. Not even close to release yet and it is already being stripped and things MS promised to be in XP but really where in Longhorn are now definitly going to be in "who cares". WinFS anyone? How long has MS been promising a better filesystem?
This little announcement grabbed MS a few headlines. None of the media will be coming back to MS in a few weeks and ask them why they haven't delivered. Journalists ain't even smart enough to question goverments on breaking campaign promises. Far easier to copy paste the next press release.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Just checked my pam ridden hotmail account that I've had since before M$ bought it and they're actually offering 250MB to freeloaders. The 2GB is for paying customers.
:P
Yay! 250MB of SPAM to delete every day!
Yahoo! Mail has been offering 2GB to their Premium subscribers for the last couple of months.
I'm using MSN messenger just fine without a hotmail address. I think you're confusing Passport and Hotmail. Passport can use any e-mail and is not restricted to hotmail addresses only.
But I can understand the confusion since they seem linked together, in the sign-up process it is very vague...
3. yes there is, I imported all my Outlook address book into Gmail. Look again, it's a new feature (within the last two months).
4. their interface works perfectly under firefox. It is not IE only.
This is a beta service. Except improvements.
May be dated, obsolete, your milage may vary, you have been warned.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
- The spam filtering is okay. I've had one or two legitimate list emails noted as false positives. Nothing new here.
- the funky javascript preview thing cuts off the most important part of those emails
Google has been tweaking both those features in the past few weeks. I recently noticed a number of mailing lists had been dropped into Spam, even though I had filters set to label them. That isn't happening anymore. And I believe the view message pane has begun showing more of the message w/o having to launch a popup.Annoyances: Bad contacts and filters sorting. No notifications of messages in Spam, filter-labeled messages in Spam are hidden from inbox.
What's nice is that the number of filters is unlimited, versus hotmail's 10, the ability to search your old messages with google's engine, and less obtrusive, even interesting ads.
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