Hot mail takes on G mail !!! 2 gig storage!!

[myth]

I recived this in my inbox!

"Great news! Your MSN® Hotmail® Extra Storage account is about to be upgraded to MSN® Hotmail® Plus"

"We are now pleased to announce that your storage capacity will be increased to a massive 2GB with 20MB attachment size by the beginning of September"

Oh! and, "Enjoy a more streamlined Web e-mail experience with no graphical ads" (RIGHT! )

So... any fans of Gmail feel like going over to Hot mail? 2 Gigs! I must admit it seems to be an improvement!

[Shogun]

Thats for a paying account. If you didn't pay hotmail is about to reduce your space to 2mb again.

What a difference a few zeroes make.

Some new users of Microsoft's Hotmail on Wednesday got a pleasant surprise when they received 2 gigabytes of storage upon registering for the popular free email service. That's a thousand times more than the 2 megabytes that new users should be getting.

Microsoft confirmed on Thursday that some free emailers were given the wrong amount of storage and that 2MB is the correct amount, claiming the matter was caused by an "error". The software giant that day was busy upgrading its paid users to 2GB, which costs $19.95 (£10.85) a year, and some of those perks slipped into free accounts.

"When rolling out 2GB of storage, it inadvertently went over to free users as well," a Microsoft representative said.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/eco...9161419,00.htm

[myth]

Ohh...! I'm soooo glad I pay! That is one of 4 emails I got..

[Shogun]

Well considering you have to pay $19.95 for 2gb from hotmail and have to pay $0 for 2gb from gmail, I don't see any competition at all. Why pay for something when you can have it free?

[myth]

Well considering you have to pay $19.95 for 2gb from hotmail and have to pay $0 for 2gb from gmail, I don't see any competition at all. Why pay for something when you can have it free?

Well...

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All right I give up! I just like MSN!

[Shogun]

Well...

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All right I give up! I just like MSN!

Good man. Finally seeing the light

[BUFF]

What individual needs 2Gb of mail storage?

[r1zeek]

What individual needs 2Gb of mail storage?

Too right you are, I mean 1Gb is way too much for me really, I would use it as a temp storage type thing, if someone sent me a big attatchment type thing but how many e-mails is it gonna take to fill 2gb!

[[GSV]Trig]

1GB of mail is rediculus, I've got my .pst file here from work, its about a year old and is only 380mb...
Theres no need for it...

[Stoo]

yup, checked my mailbox size.. it's 260meg and I rarely delete anything..

[silent ben]

for 2gb from gmail

I think you can be proscuted for being an individual owning more than 1 gmail account. Its in the legal stuff when you sign up.

Gmail also saves all the attachments you send as well as the ones you recieve so if you send a few pdfs, jpgs or word docs a day you end up using the space up quite quickly.

Ben

[Shogun]

Whoops, sorry, forgot it was only 1gb. ops:

[killgORE]

ffs people. I have never got near filling my 2mg storage on the free hotmail account. all emails are disposable and having more than 20 stored makes me feel guilty.

Admittedly the top 5 are usually auto emails from Hexus. but even these are deletable.

Apologies fo any spelling mistakes this keyboardis busted and occasonally buttons don't work. it is 2 much effort to try and make sure things are sorted.

take it easy.