Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage Boost 623
BobPaul writes "Following behind Yahoo Mail's recent upgrade to 100MB of free storage, and trailing behind GMail's 1GB (last mentioned here), ZDNet reports that Hotmail will soon boost email storage as well. 'The upgrade will increase Hotmail's free e-mail storage limits from 2 megabytes to 250MB and its paid e-mail service, which costs $19.95 a year, from 10MB to 2 gigabytes. The changes will begin in early July.' Another interesting tidbit from the article: 'Ask Jeeves also plans to grant its e-mail subscribers more storage room... According to an e-mail sent to iWon users, Ask Jeeves plans to give each of the sites' e-mail subscribers 125MB of free storage.'"
If you build it.... (Score:5, Funny)
Go Google Go!! (Score:5, Funny)
Step 2 - invest in Hard drives, and wait until MS and others implement size increases
Step 3 - declare it was a joke all along
Step 4 - ???
Step 5 - IPO !!!
All the storage I need. (Score:3, Funny)
Hotmail is sweet! (Score:1, Funny)
capitalism's finest (Score:4, Funny)
It will be put to good use (Score:2, Funny)
Wouldn't it be funny (Score:5, Funny)
Now that Yahoo and Hotmail and everyone else has done the "look, we're offering 1Gig storage too!"
Not to mention.... (Score:5, Funny)
Competition? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Very good news (Score:5, Funny)
TRANSLATION:
Hmm. True. Imagine if Google hadn't launched GMail, you would still have only 2mb on hotmail, like you've had for the last 8 years! On the other hand most of the email I receive is SPAM or junk mail forwards (Almost 2mb worth), now I have 200mgs to look forward too, (wait until I get 2gbs! Haha
Re:Very good news (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Paging Apple, paging apple (Score:3, Funny)
We are storry to inform you that becuase our Xstor RAID isn't scalable enough and its RAID cannot be rebuilt online, we are currently unable to provide any extra space to our faithful customers.
Please wait until the new and more powerful version of Xstor RAID is released and check back again!
Sincerely,
Apple Customer Service
New Delhi
Re:Go Google Go!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Email Arms Race (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hotmail is sweet! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hotmail is sweet! (Score:0, Funny)
but for each of those new invites, that's another person that has the power to invite... it grows quickly my friend. I have 8 or 9 unused invites at the moment that I have nothing to do with. I've given out close to 20, and now I'm out of friends...
Haha! (Score:1, Funny)
In related news ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Too little too late (Score:5, Funny)
Is the bee's knees similar to the cat's ass?
If your not sure, sent an invite to gmail and I will do a thorough analysis for you!
Re:Yeah, but Gmail's better (Score:3, Funny)
Friendly advice (Score:2, Funny)
Argh! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:competition (Score:3, Funny)
1.Offer 1GB email storage capacity to a few thousand users in a beta program
2.Wait for competitor's to match your offer and lose millions by offering 100x more storage capacity as before for free
3.Cancel beta test and never launch service
4.PROFIT!!!
Invitation! (Score:2, Funny)