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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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Surely the subscribers will simply get yet a larger spam-box...
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wtf do you need 2gb for? recieving files but that'd take forever to download a 1 gb file from hotmail lol. man that's scary. 2gb only means lots, and lots, and lots of SPAM. and more spam and MORE SPAM.
Well, I hope somebody tells M$ that GMail is not only about storage. The interface is so clean and fast that it's hard to consider any other options, let alone the search capabilities, which I have found really useful. On a sidenote, some friends and I were discussing on how useful it would be to have that search power in our existing Yahoo! Group (which we created back when it was eGroups). We have a lot of content (other than forwarded jokes) worth mining into as the years have passed.
This is a war, yes. but I maintain my claim: the winner will not be who stores the most junk, but he who provides the best tools to manage it.
I'm sorry, but I've got to politely disagree with you here. Gmail (as it stands) is nothing more than an exercise in mild javascript goodness. You can't even say that it's a load-test, due to the closed beta.
The spam filtering is okay - not awesome. I've had one or two legitimate list emails (as in I asked for them, regardless of how commercial they are) noted incorrectly as spam. I shouldn't have to have the list emails in my address book. 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. Nothing to be particularly excited about over a lot of other webmail systems currently available (fastmail, oddpost, hotmail).
(Yes, I do have Gmail, and I do understand it is a beta. Just stating current facts as I see them. Gmail may very well kick everyone else's asses once it is complete.)
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"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..." Sorry. It's not vague at all.At least on the french page. From http://messenger.msn.fr/Download/default.aspx: " Vous devez disposer d'un compte Microsoft .NET Passport pour utiliser MSN Messenger. Si vous avez une adresse de messagerie @hotmail.com ou @msn.com, vous avez déjà un compte Passport..
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Translation= "you need a microsoft .NET Passport account to use MSN Messenger".
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But I can understand the confusion since they seem linked together, in the sign-up process it is very vague..."
Sorry. It's not vague at all.At least on the french page. From http://messenger.msn.fr/Download/default.aspx:
" Vous devez disposer d'un compte Microsoft .NET Passport pour utiliser MSN Messenger. Si vous avez une adresse de messagerie @hotmail.com ou @msn.com, vous avez déjà un compte Passport..
"
Translation= "you need a microsoft .NET Passport account to use MSN Messenger".
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Some may disagree, but at least in the near future, as far as e-mail is concerned - 1 GB will more than suit 97% of the webmail users out there.
Just like you'll never need more than 640k of RAM?
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Some may disagree, but at least in the near future, as far as e-mail is concerned - 1 GB will more than suit 97% of the webmail users out there.
640k ought to be enough for everyone