Hotmail bumps email

250mb nice !

[xcandyman]

[networks.silicon.com...]

Microsoft has said that it will boost storage limits in its Hotmail web email service, a move intended to counter similar steps taken by rivals Google and Yahoo.

The upgrade will increase Hotmail's free email storage limits from 2MB to 250MB and its paid email service, which costs $19.95 a year, from 10MB to 2GB. The changes will begin in early July.

All this because of Google

[sem4u]

Yes, very nice :)

I hate it when my inbox gets to near the 2MB capacity.

[jweighell]

That is good news. I had been planning to swap to another service, but that would have been a pain making sure everything went to the new acount.

[ronin]

If Y! and MSN have got all this spare bandwidth, they've been really foolish to wait for someone like G to come along and then operate in a reactive rather than pro-active way.

Either of the two of them could have gone on adding 10MB to the free accounts every three months or so for the last five years, issuing press releases, publicity campaigns and so on every time they had an "upgrade".

Good for public awareness, good for attracting the advertising industry...

Gmail might have had much more of an uphill struggle if the giants hadn't been sleeping...