You knew it was gonna happen soon. :Tongue:

[url]http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5245523.html[/url]

[quote]Hotmail to offer 250MB of free storage

By Jim Hu CNET News.com June 23, 2004, 4:01 PM PT

Microsoft said Wednesday that it will boost storage limits in its Hotmail Web e-mail service, a move intended to counter similar steps taken by rivals Google and Yahoo.

The upgrade will increase Hotmail's free e-mail storage limits from 2 megabytes to 250MB and its paid e-mail service, which costs $19.95 a year, from 10MB to 2 gigabytes. The changes will begin in early July.

"With these new offers, storage will not be an issue for MSN Hotmail customers," Blake Irving, corporate vice president of communication services for MSN, said in a statement.

The storage follows similar announcements from Google and Yahoo. The storage boost started when Google announced in April that it plans to launch a new e-mail service called Gmail that will give people 1GB of storage for free. The service has attracted some controversy, because it will serve advertisements based on keywords found in the text of peoples' e-mail messages.

Indeed, Google's initial steps into storage increases countered the industry's trend to charge extra for more memory. Over the past few years, Yahoo and Hotmail have both taken steps to decrease memory in hopes of convincing free users to become paying subscribers.

Earlier this month, Yahoo launched its own upgrade to 100MB for free users and 2GB for its paid users. The company said the changes would make e-mail storage a "nonissue."

"We'll remain focused on what e-mailers want and need, and people can expect to see a number of new enhancements to Yahoo Mail in the coming months," Yahoo spokeswoman Mary Osako said in response to the Microsoft announcement.

Ask Jeeves also plans to grant its e-mail subscribers more storage room. Earlier this year, the search company acquired Internet Search Holdings, including My Way, The Excite Network and iWon.com, which all serve Web surfers with free e-mail. Ask Jeeves plans to give each of the sites' e-mail subscribers 125MB of free storage, up from an allottment of 3MB to 6MB previously.

Separately, Microsoft said it will offer free antivirus software to scan e-mails before they appear in a user's in-box. [/quote]

Awsome! I`m movin there ... since they offer a kind of pop3 access ... to use with Outlook! Cool! Great news!

Great!!! :RockOn: :Naughty: :mrgreen:

It's about time. Glad to see it happen just for the sake of moving larger attachments around. To be perfectly honest it's rare that I ever needed more than two megs to get by but I damn sure won't turn this down.

Thats great news:RockOn: :Naughty:

I guess this is in response to Yahoo increasing their size to 100 megs

[quote=Dj So Smooth 76]I guess this is in response to Yahoo increasing their size to 100 megs[/quote]

That, coupled with the imminent public launch of Gmail ([url]http://www.gmail.com[/url]).

soundz great, but there must be a hook !!!

Ok, now I'm waiting for yahoo to increase the storage up to 0,5 GB. :D Let the race continue!!! :twisted: This time, suprisingly, all the battle is to the convenience of the users!

Cool, guess was bound to happen given what yahoo have done and what gmail will bring :D

I've been told that Microsoft hired Google's gmail technicians :P

i wouldn't be surprised if that's true :MadNow:

Finally! I hate when I don't check my hotmail account for a couple days and find it is at the limit just from spam.

hotmail spam filter really sucks.

i got like 50 new spam everyday :(

They're both on the back foot and nowhere near as good as gmail.

The speed of gmail must be used to be believed.

The ad screening is such a non issue....fucking hotmail/yahoo making it out to be MUCH worse then it is. It's just like using google as a search engine; it displays text ads based on what you typed.....I find them quiet helpful actually (and have bought/found stuff using them).

The spam filter, where I get 200 e-mails a day on my PC( i forward a copy of my mail 2 gmail). It blocks 198/200 = a top rate. It's conversation style is also amazing.

Google all teh way.

--djway

[quote=arielus]hotmail spam filter really sucks.

i got like 50 new spam everyday :([/quote]

I have to second that. :x But I don't need neither 100 nor 250 mb storage space. I use Outlook so everything is stored local and I prefer this from having private stuff on Microsoft servers. :Bullshit:

This is great new... I?ve been struggling to manage this small 2MB space troughout these yars.

:RightOn: I've had hotmail for a whlie. I don't seem to have a problem with Spam though, I did when I first got it but I blocked most of the e-mails and I think those people finally took me off lists. I like hotmails and I'll like it even more now!!

I get so much spam into my hotmail account I can't use it, the only reason I still have it is cause its linked to my MSN Messenger account...

hotmail spam setings re shit, the spam gets to you inbox, but your`s friends mails go to trash!!

Log live to g-mail!

Im the same as Pam, i never get any junk in my hotmail account. But then im very choosy who i give it out to. Good news on the size increase tho :Bingo:

I've been using gmail for about 2 weeks and it's amazing. Definitly create an account if someone sends you an invite (you need an invite until the beta version gets replaced by the full version). You won't be disappointed.....

ps. I still have like 5 invites left, pm me if you're interested.

cool..PM sent.

But seriously, aside from moving some decent-sized attachments, do you really NEED that much storage?

Outlook Express folders right now are about 70MB on my hard drive...and that's been saving messages for about 6 months.

Back on the hotmail bandwagon. Yeah!

Wow 250 mb is some leap will consider using the service now as another form of mail!

H

I also have 5 invitations left for gmail

pm me with your first and last name, and the email address you want to receive de invitacion.

gmail rocks :RockOn:

very nice notice...now i need more space...i ve a invitation too...yeahhh