Hotmail to increase storage space

radiospan

This isn't confirmed yet, but it looks like Hotmail are finally set to follow Yahoo! Mail and Google's GMail and offer a massive increase in email storage space.

All users will get 250MB space (vs Yahoo's 100MB, GMail's 1GB) but the upgrades won't happen until "late summer to fall".

See here: http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=21605&category=main

Again, this isn't definate yet!

EDIT: BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3835495.stm

huge

sweet i was sick of my space going to its limit coz i get a lot of spam and some are 300kb pain in de ass

OfflerCrocGod

Attachments will only be 10MB in size max:(, I was hoping for maybe 30-35MB enough for a real media file of South Park....oh well it will be nice not running out of space:).

gobby

its gas that once g-mail was introduced that everyone else is jumping on the bandwagon saying "here lads... dont bother switching to the other side... we will give ye more space! no bother!"

so all along, hotmail and yahoo could have given more space but just didnt want to. what a load of funking funkers. :mad:

radiospan

Originally posted by gobby
its gas that once g-mail was introduced that everyone else is jumping on the bandwagon saying "here lads... dont bother switching to the other side... we will give ye more space! no bother!"

so all along, hotmail and yahoo could have given more space but just didnt want to. what a load of funking funkers. :mad:

If I remember correctly, Hotmail were actually reducing the amount of space they offered. I think it went from 6MB to 4MB, and then down to 2MB.

Well done to Google for bringing about change, though.

segadreamcast

Originally posted by plazzTT
If I remember correctly, Hotmail were actually reducing the amount of space they offered. I think it went from 6MB to 4MB, and then down to 2MB.

Well done to Google for bringing about change, though.

That's precisely the case. Now MSN and Yahoo, in an attempt to usurp Gmail's potential users, are offering more space than previously deemed viable. Unbelievable. I know which webmail I'll be using - I'd rather use a company interested in innovating and evolving the markets that they work in...

radiospan

Originally posted by NoelRock
That's precisely the case. Now MSN and Yahoo, in an attempt to usurp Gmail's potential users, are offering more space than previously deemed viable. Unbelievable. I know which webmail I'll be using - I'd rather use a company interested in innovating and evolving the markets that they work in...

Yeah me too. Besides, Gmail is just cooler!

But, for my needs, it makes little difference if it's 250MB or 1000MB. It's effectively unlimited, because I can't see myself using over 250MB for just emails.

BTW, if anyone would like to give me a Gmail invite, I'd really like it! (plazz2000 .: AT :. yahoo.co.uk)

weemcd

Would there be any way for me to forward my current emails to a gmail account when I get one? Im sick of hotmail and it would be handy if any emails to my hotmail could be forwarded to gmail.

bambam

http://www.e-eeasy.com/getmail.aspx

Forward hotmail messages to gmail (with an option to run on startup).

nava

News from the MSN website



http://www.msn.co.uk/HotmailUpgrade/Default.asp

radiospan

Has anyone here received an email to their Hotmail Inbox about the upgrades?

damnyanks

Hotmail and Yahoo offer a pay service. The decrease in size was to get people to try and pay for the service.

They had to up the space so not to lose so many users to gmail. Ahh well...