hotmail to offer 250 mb!!

[vinaysa1]

hotmail to offer 250 mb free starting from july.

 

[CWebb04]

thanks for the info.

http://www.brandrepublic.com/digitalbulletin/news_story.cfm?articleID=214725&Origin=DB25062004

Summer: Virus cleaning of incoming email
Fall: 250MB of storage for
your Inbox
Fall: Send/receive up to 10MB of attachments

 

[vinaysa1]

linky..
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/jun04/06-24HotmailUpgrade2004PR.asp

 

[jdiddy]

Thank you Google for starting this MB race between all the free email services.

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: jdiddy
Thank you Google for starting this MB race between all the free email services.

YES

 

[IPLaw]

I did not seemthem release what the attachment limit will be - does anyone know?

 

[DaCurryman]

Originally posted by: toant103

Originally posted by: jdiddy
Thank you Google for starting this MB race between all the free email services.

YES

So true...

 

[BladeWalker]

The only problem is that hotmail sucks at spamguard as compared to Yahoo.

 

[SgtZulu]

HOORAY NOW WE CAN GET 250MB OF SPAM!!!!

 

[Raj]

does hotmail have mail forwarding?

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Wow! Now they have a quarter the space of gmail, way more flashy/invasive ads, AND lack Gmail's awesome features + clean interface!

At least things are getting better for those sticking with Hotmail thanks to Gmail. They benefit indirectly, heh.

 

[wckd]

i also hate the fact that if you only use hotmail as a junk account and dont check it for a while they delete the account..

 

[wkabel23]

Originally posted by: jdiddy
Thank you Google for starting this MB race between all the free email services.

:thumbsup:

 

[yougotdeals]

Originally posted by: SgtZulu
HOORAY NOW WE CAN GET 250MB OF SPAM!!!!

Yup. Makes procrastinators like me happy. I can wait longer to clean out my spam before it gets full.

 

[sumtig]

the fact is, you can use outlook/outlook express to check hotmail, that makes a huge difference compare to gmail/yahoo, more than the difference of 250mb to 1gb.
and if you are a msn messenger user, nothing is better than a instant notice when u got new email.

 

[Drizzy]

Too late hotmail. Gmail has too many nice features to make me keep using my hotmail account. its good for signing up to the spam lists though.

 

[guitarizt]

well I'm happy to have more space =)

 

[lnvisible1]

Originally posted by: sumtig
the fact is, you can use outlook/outlook express to check hotmail, that makes a huge difference compare to gmail/yahoo, more than the difference of 250mb to 1gb.
and if you are a msn messenger user, nothing is better than a instant notice when u got new email.

very true. hotmail is still very convenient with the pop mail. when you have multiple email accounts (school, work, regular), you don't want to have to log in to three different sites. i'm using gmail for storage.

 

[c627627]

Hotmail erases your mail if you don't log in for 30 days.

This is a huge deal -- there being a chance for you to loose all your stuff.

Yahoo never does this, is more user friendly, has less spam (I got dirty spam after activating a hotmail account, never using it or giving it out or posting it anywhere and opting out of all possible HotMail options thereby proving that Microsoft itself had something to do with all the spam I got!!), anyway, so why have so many people been chosing Hot Mail over Yahoo all this time??

 

[sumtig]

Originally posted by: lnvisible1
very true. hotmail is still very convenient with the pop mail. when you have multiple email accounts (school, work, regular), you don't want to have to log in to three different sites. i'm using gmail for storage.

true-er hotmail is geat to serve as a destination place for email forwarding. i forward my multiple personal email accounts to hotmail, so i never have to reveal my hotmail addr to internet, and never had spam probelm with hotmail. now with 250mb, it i also good for short-term archiving.
people using browsers to check emails dont know what they missed.

 

[modedepe]

It's about time hotmail got with the program. I've often had people send me attachments that are around 2mb, so if you have anything in your inbox you can't recieve them. Also yahoo always gave a warning that you are over the limit but will still accept new messages, whereas hotmail will just bounce your emails.

Originally posted by: c627627
I got dirty spam after activating a hotmail account, never using it or giving it out or posting it anywhere and opting out of all possible HotMail options thereby proving that Microsoft itself had something to do with all the spam I got!!

I've never had that problem, so maybe somebody had the account previously? Since hotmail deletes accounts after 30 days..

 

[ncage]

yes 10mb will be the attachment limit

 

[phatj]

It's nice for me cuz I paid $9.95 for hotmails old "premium" service a couple months back (10mb space). Now, I am getting a free upgrade to 2 GB of email storage and 20MB attachments for no extra cost!!!!

 

[fazman]

Google (1 GB) free:
http://gmail.google.com/

MSN (250 MB) free:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/jun04/06-24HotmailUpgrade2004PR.asp

Yahoo (100 MB) free:
http://mail.yahoo.com/

EarthLink (10MB) But you get 8 accounts, which is almost close to 100 MB hehehe...

GO EarthLink!!!!!! :shocked:

 

[ShawnReeves]

SBC Yahoo also jumped in the game. My account is now 2GB