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Are there any other Hotmail users here? I have the basic free account and it was unexpectedly upgraded to 250 MB! Where I used to have nearly 90% of my account filled up, I now have less than 1%! Did this happen to anyone else's account? I'm very pleasantly surprised.

-Aaron

Some people have gotten the 250mb storage upgrade cause Hotmail are testing it out I think, just like when they switched up the interface a few years ago. They are gradually migrating everyone over to the 250mb limit, and I think that attatchments are being bumped up to 10mb. I guess Yahoo and Google gave them a swift kick in the ass.

After checking my inbox every day, for the past 6 months to make sure I wasn't at the 10mb limit, 250mb will be a walk in the park... now if only their stupid spam filter actually did its job, I might actually stick with Hotmail.

Yup, my friend and I were discussing this a few days ago. We both have Hotmail, and we both all of the sudden have 250 MB of space. I agree it is pretty cool, but I honestly don't know why they did it. I sense that there's some kinda string attached - like it's just a temporary promotional gimmick to get you to upgrade to the "Hotmail PLUS" pay service or something. *shrug*

But, if they've truly gone and permanently upgraded our accounts, I'm not complaining! ^_^

EDIT: Yeah... what Oliver said!

Hotmail announced that they were going to be upgrading both the basic and premium services way, way back around mid-2004.

So I wasn't surprised, but I was impatient.

I have MSN, and I only have 10 MB's of space on my account. You guys are so darn lucky.

In due time, everyone's account will be at 250 MB.

The big change is happening because of Gmail, which offers an unprecidented 1 GB of space. Recently, yahoo raised up to 100 mb to compete. This is hotmails response.


I personally prefer Gmail, yahoo, and then hotmail. even though Gmail is still in testing, I personally think it owns the daylights of the other two. Nothing too special though.

awallaceunc wrote:Are there any other Hotmail users here? I have the basic free account and it was unexpectedly upgraded to 250 MB! Where I used to have nearly 90% of my account filled up, I now have less than 1%! Did this happen to anyone else's account? I'm very pleasantly surprised.

-Aaron

Ditto for me too! I used to have to check my e-mail everyday because I had some e-mails stored (~80%), but feared if i didn't clear it up soon I may miss important e-mails. But the 250mb definitely takes care of that fear.

For me, the hotmail just offer: 2MB for free acount (mine i need to empty it almost every day) or paid 2GB account (which is not expensive, just 15 dollars a year)

I have Gmail, and it rocks. Not only its storage space beats Yahoo and Hotmail, but it's way faster and the features are better than both of them too.