Hotmail ups space to 25MB.

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Too little too late methinks.

OMG, you guys are pathetic. Gmail isn't even finished, Yahoo very recently made their accounts 100mb, and I haven't heard of any other major players say anything. Nothing's too late yet, and 25mb is a modest improvement I'd say. Of course nothing's like 1gb :rolleyes: Which no one will ever use...

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Hotmail, Yahoo Step Up The Mailbox Rivalry

By Leslie Walker

The Washington Post

Sunday, June 20, 2004; Page F07

The Web mailbox wars escalated last week when Yahoo expanded its free e-mail accounts from 4 megabytes to 100 MB, and Microsoft confirmed that it, too, will raise storage limits soon on its free Hotmail accounts.

Both are reacting to Google's plan to offer 1 gigabyte of free storage with its new Gmail service, which is still in trial form with a limited number of users.

"What we are trying to do is take storage off the table as an issue," said Brad Garlinghouse, a Yahoo vice president.

Just a few months ago, Yahoo charged $60 a year for 100 MB of storage. Starting last Tuesday, that much storage comes free with every account (and the maximum size of any one attached file is now 10 MB instead of 3 MB). The company also consolidated its various extra-cost mail services into one $20-per-year plan, with no graphical ads and with a hefty 2 GB of mail storage.

That's twice what Google is planning. Yahoo said its paid version contains more features than Gmail, including tighter spam filtering and the ability to download messages with standard e-mail programs.

Yahoo also streamlined its mail service's interface and search features.

Microsoft, meanwhile, has quietly been expanding the storage it offers to at least some users of its free Hotmail service to 25 megabytes, up from the 2 that were available before. Users of these expanded accounts can buy still more room with two new "extra storage" plans: a $40-per-year service that includes 50 MB, and a $60-per-year option that allows 100 MB.

But other users continue to get only 2 MB of storage, and an "All About Hotmail" page at the site shows the old amount as well. A new account opened on Friday afternoon also was limited to 2 MB.

Microsoft spokeswoman Kathleen Callaghan said she had not heard of any free accounts getting more storage.

But she did confirm that the company has plans in the works to beef up Hotmail: "Part of that will ensure that storage won't be an issue," she said. And a Microsoft vice president, Yusuf Mehdi, said last week that users will see a ton of innovation from Hotmail and Microsoft's other communication services over the next year.

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OMG, you guys are pathetic. Gmail isn't even finished, Yahoo very recently made their accounts 100mb, and I haven't heard of any other major players say anything. Nothing's too late yet, and 25mb is a modest improvement I'd say. Of course nothing's like 1gb :rolleyes: Which no one will ever use...

yes they will, this means email for life with out having to delete ANY of your mails, just archive em..

I have had many times when ive deleted some old mails but later realisedsome contained info i needed!

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Not for me. I had to enable that option that moves everything to the spam folder that's not on your contact list. In like 4 mins, I get 10 emails asking if I want to enlarge my pen0r or some nigerian smuggler.

Yeh, I had the same problem, I did not use my account for two months (so it got deactivated) and then I reactivated it. I don't get almost any spam now... and whatever I get is safely taken care of by the hotmail spam filters. :)

Yeah, I think deactivation worked for me! :shifty:

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OMG, you guys are pathetic. Gmail isn't even finished, Yahoo very recently made their accounts 100mb, and I haven't heard of any other major players say anything. Nothing's too late yet, and 25mb is a modest improvement I'd say. Of course nothing's like 1gb :rolleyes: Which no one will ever use...

true

Most people dont even seem to realize that 100MB and such are overkill (they often use the attachment argument, wanna send big files? use IM programs or ftp....)

Ain't even gonna mention 1GB storage offered by gmail.

Plus how can one of the leading mails providers (hotmail) be late, you talk like if gmail is public and yahoo raised their limits to 100MB like 2 months ago...

pls :rolleyes:

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The fact that GMail offers 1 gb of space is great, but not a reason to use it.

I have used my hotmail account since 1998 and there is no way I am gonna switch. Now they up it to 25 mb, which is more then enough for me anyways. So thanks to GMail and Yahoo for that.

I hate changing my email address and notifying everyone. I'll just keep using Hotmail.

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