MSN/Hotmail 2GB This Fall

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I know that the Hotmail/MSN 2GB offer isn't new, but the time frame of when it is to happen was unclear. Well, I just received an email saying that it comes this Fall!

Your MSN? Premium account is being upgraded>

As an MSN Premium subscriber you will be able to use your account more than ever in the coming months, as your account storage limit is being expanded to a massive 2GB!

Coming this Fall, you'll be able to store even more, including photos, music and favorite e-mails. You'll also be able to attach larger documents (up to 20MB) to outgoing e-mails and take advantage of bigger storage space to upload photos and music in your MSN groups to share with friends and family.

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Yours is 2GB but PAID for.

Gmail is 1GB but FREE.

Yep this is true, but I pay $10/month for Anti-Virus, Firewall, MSN Alerts(I looooooove it), Favorites that follow my account(as a matter of fact all my settings follow my account!), and a bunch of other features all located in one place. This $10 charge also includes the 2GB email storage coming this fall. Considering that I use MSN at home and at work(a benefit of being a network admin), it's all worth the money for me. :)

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the big question is, how much storage do you need for email? are you ever, even if you make an effort, going to fill the space?

i have gmail and my ISP mail for free, which amounts to 1gb + HDD space or so.

I don't think it matters at all. Take what they give you. Heck, 5 megapixel and 8 megapixel cams are out. Each shot may be 4-8 meg JPG, depending. Send a "roll" of 100 pics on a 512 meg CF card and you are at 1 gig. :)

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I think the biggest benefit is the fact that you can send/receive larger attachments. I myself would have a difficult time sorting all of that. BUT, with a search engine like Google's the task may not be so difficult.

I think that MS has it right with going to 20 meg attachments. But honestly, I'd rather have 50 or 100 meg attachments for 1 gig or 2 gig, if they won't go to 500 meg (:o). The larger attachment size, the more convenient it is for users who want to send big bundles of files, such as digital photos at high megapixels.

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But how big can one attachment size be?

The attachment size is per email, I believe. So if you have a 20 meg attachment limit per email, and you have four 5 megapixel images that are 4 meg each, that would be 16 meg. I don't know if you lose space because it has to convert them to mime or not. But lets just say 16 meg is a safe attachment estimate for 4 digital photos. You have a "roll" of 100 shots. You can send them in 100 emails with a small attachment or 25 emails with the larger attachment size. 25 is more manageable. :)

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i should have been more specific at the time that i posted the original thread but no one really had the information. but most accounts should be upgraded by fall. msn should be switching over accounts as we speak but they are a bit slow in doing so....

and sherpard, msn/microsoft is greedy they think you should pay even in msn explorer (msn 6 & 7) even though you used to be able to use it at no charge and even make a @msn.com email address without paying anything

anyone have a job they would be interested in hooking me up with?

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I got that e-mail too! One thing I am excited about is that it mentioned "shared contacts". This is great! I have the whole church directory in my address book, and there are people always wanting to get a copy of it. What I have done in the past is to use Outlook Express to download my contacts into Windows Address Book, and then sign in as the the person wants the info, and then use the import wizard to import my contacts from OE into their MSN Address Book.

This is a great trick, but the problem was that sometimes I saw that not all the info made it over, such as birthdays. Also, since people's phone numbers and addresses change a lot, the person who just got a copy of my address book is outdated within weeks. Shared Contacts would solve this! They would always be able to view my Address Book and it would always be updated. :yes:

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TSK TSK TSK..look what you did google. If it wasn't for gmail emails would probably be going down..hehe ;)

Don't you mean "look at what google did to us"? Although your other point is correct. All email is going up. Google revolutionized email.

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