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Hotmail boosts storage limits
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Posted by: Outlaw
Now that Google is offering 1 GB of free space for email storage, and Yahoo has raised their limit to 100 MB, hotmail can't stay behind.
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.
"With these new offers, storage will not be an issue for MSN Hotmail customers," Blake Irving, corporate vice president of communication services for MSN, said in a statement.
You can read the whole story here.
Posted by: Canis Lupus
Haha, I hate it when I'm right  competition at its best...
Now, the biggest laugh would be if Gmail cancels its email service after beta 
Posted by: SKYHN
The whole email storage craze just makes me go 'WTF'. I challenge anyone to fill one of those gmail accounts up in a year with regular usage.
Posted by: Null Actor
That's the point though. It's just a number. I serious doubt google could actually support it if all users decided to fill all their space. But the large majority won't, so it's a non-issue.
Posted by: AltronHGX
I find it outrageously funny that Google is stepping in and completely ****ing up the free-mail economy within a month. Along with the fact that the other services are getting  at Google.
Posted by: Chaotic
SBC just raised my storage limit to 2 gigs, yay. I guess.
Posted by: AK47
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Originally Posted by SKYHN
The whole email storage craze just makes me go 'WTF'. I challenge anyone to fill one of those gmail accounts up in a year with regular usage.
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My university account is usually filled with its 100mb limit, but 1gig.... that would be a challenge!
Posted by: Gunslinger
My university account also has a 100 MB limit and in three years of constant use I have yet to fill it. I'm close, though. I got a warning email the other day saying that I had used 80% of my space and that I should clear some up. It took three years of anywhere from 20-40 emails per day to fill 80 MB.
Posted by: uh...ok
I prefer GMail over Hotmail/Yahoo not because of the size or coolness factor (okay fine, a little bit on the coolness factor...), but simply because it's so much faster and has better features than the other two. Threaded e-mails is hot, as is the pure lack of cookies-from-other-sites-that-mozilla-complains-about/picture-ads that I normally get whenever I login to a yahoo or hotmail account.
So while they've stepped up in terms of keeping up with Google on size, they're still losing on functionality and usability.
Posted by: taco_fox
Now I won't have to check my account every day to make sure the spam doesn't take me over the limit
Posted by: DiabloFather
Why Would You Need 2 GB For A Email Account???
Thats Too Much I Mean 2 MB Is Good Enouhg For Me
Posted by: redwench
emails with images can take up a lot of room quickly. no one needs that much storage for text, of course.
Posted by: C-Money
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Originally Posted by DiabloFather
Why Would You Need 2 GB For A Email Account???
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Reasons
1. So I have some headroom from spam 
2. To have an enviable Gmail account 
3. Headroom from spam
4. It's er than Yahoo! or Hotmail
5. Did I mention headroom from spam??
Posted by: girlchile550
I'm switching to google! i dont need the extra space for text but, for pics hell ya
Posted by: C-Money
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Originally Posted by Null Actor
I serious doubt google could actually support it if all users decided to fill all their space.
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Actually, they could support this.
Google has 100,000 servers with over a petabyte!
Read more here.
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Originally Posted by girlchile550
I'm switching to google! i dont need the extra space for text but, for pics hell ya
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Until Gmail is released to the public, its invitation only. :sorry:
Posted by: Megatog615
At Google's office buildings all of the work computers are mini servers. They each have an extra 80 gig hdd in them for storage on the networked mini-servers. So instead of having 1 big-ass server that can get a virus and drop EVERYBODY, only 1 of the computers would get the virus and fail and only some of the customers would lose data. Therefor the company has better stability.
Posted by: AOTY2KB
My guess is as accounts get larger so shall the spam, it shall include more flash and pics etc.
Posted by: redwench
if theyre on a t3 line, maybe. the larger the email, the longer it takes to send. not an issue for a normal email, but spammers send out thousands at a time. the reason most are text is not because of storage limits 
Posted by: CaptTuna
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Originally Posted by SKYHN
The whole email storage craze just makes me go 'WTF'. I challenge anyone to fill one of those gmail accounts up in a year with regular usage.
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Can I send you the mail from my "SPAM" account? It's the one I use for everything I have to "register" to use.
Posted by: C-Money
That would make you the spammer then. 
Posted by: INeedHelp
how come my hotmail account is still 2MB? and supposely on the sign up page you can now get a free account w/ 250MB, i signed up for another account using another user name and it's still 2MB
Posted by: C-Money
Switch over to Yahoo! or wait for gmail to go public.
Posted by: chuckienut
That is awesome! I can't wait for Hotmail to increase storage limitis. Do you know if that will increase the limits for MSN groups also?
Posted by: INeedHelp
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Originally Posted by C-Money
Switch over to Yahoo! or wait for gmail to go public.
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i am currently using yahoo! as my primary e-mail address, i have a hotmail address for MSN messanger and i was just curious 'cause the new hotmail offers more space than yahoo
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