Msn/Hotmail Ups Storage Space

[powerdafuture]

This ought to be pretty interesting tonight...:)

[FiZi]

Looks like a MSN Techsupport call center is about to get a security audit. You coulda atleast removed the word 'Mentor Call' from your subject line, I would have.

[tomwarren Veteran]

You'll all see ;)

Eat your words :p

[GNRambo]

I hope we are not being made fools of. That would suck. :(

On the HTTP access, it is wicked fast on my system. It checks every like 5 or 10 minutes and takes hardly any time at all to check my accounts. I have one account for forums and one for newsgroups. Both usually check very fast. Nearly as fast as my regular ISP. I'm not sure why it would be slow on some systems and not on others. Odd stuff. Sorry for your trouble.

you notice that but i said that 3 pages earlier and noone said anything :(

[antoxicion]

and why would u want hotmail over gmail... except the fact that some of u want to keep your hotmail adresses.

[FiZi]

Oh no, its true. Just the guy who leaked the Screenshot of the e-mail is clearly in one of the non-english MSN Techsupport Centers. I work in an english one and our Mentor Call looks waaaay different. Wonder how long till their call center gets an audit :rolleyes:

[Paulstorm]

*edited remarks - previous poster basically said something similar*

[Bearded Kirklander]

and why would u want hotmail over gmail... except the fact that some of u want to keep your hotmail adresses.

Cause Gmail is elitist! :D

[Bearded Kirklander]

you notice that but i said that 3 pages earlier and noone said anything :(

Sorry man. I have no idea. These forums are haunted or something. :omg:

[zxvf]

Well we will know about the truth soon.. but

Firstly would like to thank Google [Gmail]... without which we wouldnt have seen any changes in mail boxes... also few other providers apart from big guns have changed there size of mail boxes.

Well this is the list of what i know..

Spymac 1GB

Yahoo 100MB

Rediff 1GB

.......

.......

Others will follow..

[tomwarren Veteran]

http://news.com.com/Hotmail+to+offer+250MB...ml?tag=nefd.top

Guess they're "fake" too. heh :rolleyes:

[Ajapi]

is reddif fast or is it like spymac?

[ryguy2008]

Do you work for MSN or something?

Ryan

[trigger_my_passion]

is reddif fast or is it like spymac?

Even a sloth (the slowest moving land animal) is faster than spymac. Yeah, rediff is fast.

[zxvf]

rediff is known as lighting mail by the providers... but its really fast compared to Hotmail and Yahoo.... spymac is slower that snail mail :p

[Bearded Kirklander]

http://news.com.com/Hotmail+to+offer+250MB...ml?tag=nefd.top

Guess they're "fake" too. heh :rolleyes:

I wish it had more details in the story.

Are there only going to be 2 plans to replace all of the current plans for Hotmail?

How come the ROLLEYES smile does not have its eyes rolling up like most other places do? The one here looks kinda goofy compared to others. Can that be fixed?

[Bearded Kirklander]

rediff is known as lighting mail by the providers... but its really fast compared to Hotmail and Yahoo.... spymac is slower that snail mail :p

Yeah. Spymac mail is absolute crap. Doesn't even work most of the time and their web page is really slow, even with some recent changes.

[zxvf]

I suggest u try rediff ... it has amazing speed.. you will forget about spymac in seconds :p

[Bearded Kirklander]

I suggest u try rediff ... it has amazing speed.. you will forget about spymac in seconds :p

But Spymac does give you 100 meg of free web space that you can manage with FTP. That is cool. Does anyone else do that?

[zxvf]

Well i was just speaking about Email here .... not about web space...

[b3ta]

I wonder when msnhotmail users in Australia will get this free upgrade. :ermm:

I still have just 2MB. :/

[Bearded Kirklander]

This is the current setup with hotmail accounts:

So are all 4 of these categories being merged into a single one at $19.95 a year?

[Bearded Kirklander]

Here is something from AP:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...crosoft_hotmail

By ALLISON LINN, AP Business Writer

SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail will become the latest Web-based e-mail service to increase the amount of storage space available for its free accounts, following similar moves by rivals.

Beginning later this summer, the company plans to increase the amount of storage for its free Hotmail account inboxes to 250 megabytes, up from two megabytes. Users also will be able to send larger attachments, up to 10 megabytes.

The Hotmail changes announced Wednesday follow Google Inc.'s plans for its Gmail service, with 1,000 megabytes of free storage. The leading competitor in the Web e-mail field, Yahoo! Inc (Nasdaq:YHOO - news)., recently upgraded its free mail accounts to 100 megabytes of storage.

Blake Irving, a corporate vice president with Microsoft's MSN online division, said the company hadn't heard that customers were eager to bulk up storage on Hotmail accounts. But, he said, amid the attention surrounding e-mail storage, the company didn't want competitors to have an edge with larger storage capacities.

"Our users haven't cared about storage and we just wanted to take it off the table," he said.

Irving says users are much more worried about issues like spam and security. Beginning next month, the Redmond, Wash., software giant also plans to bolster the antivirus protection for its free e-mail accounts.

Previously, Hotmail would scan incoming e-mails for viruses and give users the option to delete infected files. Now, Irving said, the service will offer to clean up the attachment, removing the virus but still allowing viewing of the e-mail.

The company used to offer this service only as part of its paid e-mail offerings.

Microsoft also has previously asked Hotmail users to pay between $19.95 and $59.95 a year to get between 10 and 100 megabytes of storage. Now that those levels of storage will be free, Microsoft says it will charge $19.95 a year for users who want two gigabytes of online storage.

Microsoft's Hotmail service attracted nearly 34.1 million unique users in May, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, trailing Yahoo, which had 40.4 million unique e-mail users.

So it does look like there will only be two levels of HOTMAIL service. The FREE of 250 meg/10 meg attachments, and the PAID for $19.95 a year at 2 gig with 20 meg attachments. Sounds competitive, to be sure. I had not expected them to collapse all of their offerings down to a single paid one, especially at $19.95, but I guess Yahoo forced their hand.

Cool, eh?

[b3ta]

Suddenly the $20 a year plan sounds really good, not that 2GB of storage - but the ability to POP! :cool:

[gazebee_]

They're allowing pop access? or is dat only 2 paid users