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Hotmail Storage Jumps to 250MB

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kamalkhan

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The domino effect Google started in April by announcing plans for a free e-mail service with 1GB of inbox storage continues, with Microsoft promising on Wednesday to boost Hotmail inbox capacity to 250MB from the current 2MB.

The storage increase for Hotmail will be rolled out starting in July in the U.S. and other countries, says Lisa Gurry, director of Microsoft's MSN Internet division.

"The landscape has changed regarding users' need for extra e-mail storage and we don't want storage to be an issue for any Hotmail user," she says.

Gurry declines to reveal the geographical rollout schedule, but says Microsoft plans to eventually extend the bigger inboxes to all 170 million Hotmail subscribers. Asked if Microsoft is responding to Google's 1GB e-mail service, which is still in a test phase, Gurry declined to discuss Gmail specifically, saying only that Hotmail is responding to customer feedback.

Yahoo last week announced it is boosting the inbox size for its free Web-based e-mail service from 4MB to 100MB.

Another enhancement to the Hotmail service is the capability to send attachments up to 10MB in size.

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Kamal Khan
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I'm sitting back and waiting for the first big email disaster to happen. People won't feel the need to backup their email anymore, but the risk of data loss, hacking or security breaches remains the same.
 
this is the fastest internet evolution ever. The biggest names (Yahoo, Google, MSN) all take massive leaps forward about email
 
CareBear said:
I'm sitting back and waiting for the first big email disaster to happen. People won't feel the need to backup their email anymore, but the risk of data loss, hacking or security breaches remains the same.
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I don't think that there will any disaster, ever or almost.
I heard a few weeks back, on TV (The ScreenSavers show), that the big companies want to make you to pay for each email you send.
They figure that by making everybody pay (you and me) they will eliminate spam and junk mail. Did any of you heard about this too? or was it just a rumor?
Cause if it is true, this space increase is just the first step to payed email sending.
 
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uhh.. so what if big companies want to make you pay? you can still make your own smtp servers. i wouldn't beleive it at all.

besides...how many people really use email nowadays as their primary medium of communication?
 
I'd be willing to pay a penny or so per message. Even like a penny per 10 messages would be good, cause then you'd have a money trail and be able to catch spammers quicker.
 
Just now i was bragging to a friend of mine about Yahoo Mail giving out 100MB mailbox and Hotmail sucks because of their 2MB mailbox , damn.
 
kamalkhan said:
Asked if Microsoft is responding to Google's 1GB e-mail service, which is still in a test phase, Gurry declined to discuss Gmail specifically, saying only that Hotmail is responding to customer feedback.
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User feedback, my ---.

But whatever...I use Hotmail, so this is good for me. :biggrin2:
 
What will you store in 250MB space ? Text Emails are couple of KBs, and believe me NOBODY keeps 250.000. and more emails :D
Giving away 250MB or 1GB is not a problem for companies. They can only impress because their HDDs will never be filled with GBs of emails.
 
Share ? Share legal stuff.. You save to a HDD and delete the email. SO easy.
Also there are messengers and p2p networks for sharing :)
 
Seldimis said:
Share ? Share legal stuff.. You save to a HDD and delete the email. SO easy.
Also there are messengers and p2p networks for sharing :)
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Offcouse legal :biggrin2: b/c legal stuff can also reach to 10MB ... well messenger makes problem for big transfer like 10MB and P2P means invite to spyware ,,,,

Kamal
 
Haha nice... hooray for Google. I don't know if I'll get a Gmail account or not, but I doubt I'll even use the hundreds of megabytes that my free e-mail accounts are popping up with. 2 MB was painfully small, but even 10 MB would be fine, let alone 250. I logged into my Yahoo one today to find out I now had 100 MB of space... I may be using it a whole lot more now, haha.
 
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