Msn/Hotmail Ups Storage Space


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Even dealing with large-scale print images(50inx50in), I don't really go over 10 megs...what could you POSSIBLY need? a 20mb attatchment limit for?

If you broke down images to single attachments, maybe nothing. But I assure you, if I throw a 5 megapixel image in Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop and save them in their native formats so layers, etc. are still in place, they easily get over 20 meg.

and ZXVF:

Well i guess there will be only three plans ....

1 Free

2 Plus

3 Premium

That is what is confusing then. What is the difference between Hotmail Plus and MSN Premium? Hotmail Plus is for non MSN users? MSN Premium is the same as Hotmail Plus but included in your MSN package?

Edited by Bearded Kirklander

More legit press on this:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._pcworld/116657

Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service

The domino effect Google started in April by announcing plans for a free e-mail service with 1GB of inbox storage continues, with Microsoft promising on Wednesday to boost Hotmail inbox capacity to 250MB from the current 2MB.

The storage increase for Hotmail will be rolled out starting in July in the U.S. and other countries, says Lisa Gurry, director of Microsoft's MSN Internet division.

"The landscape has changed regarding users' need for extra e-mail storage and we don't want storage to be an issue for any Hotmail user," she says.

Gurry declines to reveal the geographical rollout schedule, but says Microsoft plans to eventually extend the bigger inboxes to all 170 million Hotmail subscribers. Asked if Microsoft is responding to Google's 1GB e-mail service, which is still in a test phase, Gurry declined to discuss Gmail specifically, saying only that Hotmail is responding to customer feedback.

Yahoo last week announced it is boosting the inbox size for its free Web-based e-mail service from 4MB to 100MB.

Other New Features

Another enhancement to the Hotmail service is the capability to send attachments up to 10MB in size, up from a previous e-mail maximum size of 1MB including attachments. Microsoft is also now cleaning viruses in infected outgoing or incoming e-mail messages, Gurry says. Previously, Microsoft scanned all outgoing and incoming Hotmail e-mail messages, but didn't clean them, she says.

All Hotmail users worldwide will receive this feature in July, she adds. Microsoft is providing this antivirus service in partnership with Network Associates' McAfee unit. Microsoft also provides McAfee antivirus tools through its MSN service. As it has done in the past, Microsoft will continue providing antispam features in Hotmail, in partnership with Brightmail, she says.

Microsoft is also readying a new fee-based e-mail service called MSN Hotmail Plus, which will offer users 2GB of inbox storage and the capability to send 20MB attachments, for $19.95 yearly. Previously, Hotmail users could buy extra storage on top of the standard 2MB that the free service features at different price levels. Additional storage started at $19.95 per year for 10MB and a maximum attachment size of 3MB. The highest tier, at $59.95 yearly, offered 100MB of storage and a maximum attachment size of 20MB. Hotmail Plus users also get the benefit of not receiving graphical advertisements.

Yahoo has opted to provide a similar arrangement, by eliminating its tiered extra storage offers for its Web-based e-mail service. Instead, users can choose one fee-based plan of $19.99 yearly which provides 2GB of inbox storage.

Here is one from Reuters. Guess this should clear it all up. AP, Reuters, PC World, etc. all have the info up now.

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

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) plans to give paying customers for its Hotmail e-mail service 2 gigabytes of storage and boost the size limits on free accounts, matching similar moves earlier this month by rival Yahoo Inc., the company said on Wednesday.

Microsoft also said that it will roll out free e-mail and anti-virus protection to all the 170 million MSN Hotmail customers worldwide that will both scan and clean incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses and worms before they can enter a customer's inbox.

The changes will start early in July, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft said.

Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) earlier this month made good on a promise to boost the storage it provides to users of its e-mail service, raising the stakes in the e-mail war with Web search rival Google Inc. Google has announced plans for its Gmail service that gives users 1 gigabyte of free storage, far more than offered by Yahoo or Microsoft's e-mail services.

"The playing field has changed," said Blake Irving, vice president of communication services and member platform for MSN. "We're going to take storage off the table as an issue."

Microsoft will now boost storage to 250 megabytes for users of its free MSN Hotmail and also increased the size of attachments that can be sent with e-mails, to 10 megabytes from 1 megabyte previously. Users of the free MSN Hotmail before had 2 megabytes of storage capacity.

Microsoft also announced a premium Web service called MSN Hotmail Plus, for $19.95 per year, giving customers 2 gigabytes of online storage and the ability to send 20 megabyte attachments.

All current Hotmail extra storage subscribers worldwide will be upgraded to MSN Hotmail Plus when it launches globally later this summer, Microsoft said. MSN Premium subscribers will also receive those added storage benefits later this year.

Customers of Hotmail Plus also will not see graphical advertisements -- they will be replaced by text advertisements -- and their accounts will never expire, Irving said. Users of the free Hotmail e-mail service must log in at least once every 30 days or their accounts expire.

nice

thanks Gmail for making this change :D

i really hope hotmail does increase to 250 mb....before, i read news that it will increase only to 25, but now that i see that it might be 250, i'm really happy

i hope these letters are true, and that they start upgrading soon

:D

it would suck for Hotmail to increase that big... there is a lot of users using hotmail, and a lot of spam going through hotmail each day. so even if 1 million people have an account that use it regularly, thats still 250 million MB they need to have available which is something like 250TB? gmail is taking it slow and alotting users slowly..

Everyone who thinks this is fake they are mistaken i have seen it on 5 creditable website sources since 8.30pm (BST). MSN seems to be following Yahoo with increaseing there storage allocations to there users. I heard this a few hours ago hence its nearly 4am (BST). but i been out. the date of launch of the service is early July according to 2 of the sources apparently. Plus and Premium which is MSN 9. MSN 9 is internet software by MSN. Hotmail does have its own service called Hotmail Extra service this is likely to be 1 paid subscription for 2GBs but the price would very. if its the UK we be most likely overcharged as espiecally we do on several fronts. with the same service when the price converted to GBP Pounds. UK people pay more

Well because Radish unnecessarily closed the thread I posted, here is the link to ZDNet's article:

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

The original Cnet report, which is the same news service, was already posted.

Do some people just not bother to even READ the forum before they add their post to it? Not just you, but others who are not seeing that it has been listed in major news organizations already and that those have been posted here!

Come on people, pay attention, will ya? :)

The original Cnet report, which is the same news service, was already posted.

Do some people just not bother to even READ the forum before they add their post to it? Not just you, but others who are not seeing that it has been listed in major news organizations already and that those have been posted here!

Come on people, pay attention, will ya? :)

I really don't like to waste my life away by reading every post in a 7 page thread. I don't have the time to do it. Maybe some people are lifeless enough to do it, but not me.

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