Good news for Hotmail users

[Marc]

Hotmail is boosting the amount of storage space for users of both its free and paid e-mail service.
From July the basic Hotmail allowance will be boosted to 250MB and paying customers will get two gigabytes.

The move is widely seen as a response to Google's GMail service which gives all users a gigabyte of storage to keep all their messages.

With the announcement, Hotmail becomes one of a growing pool of e-mail firms offering users huge amounts of storage.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

yay! i can now keep my pointless emails.

 

[Strike]

Same here, thanks for info Crabbers.

 

[Sam]

does that mean there is still a limit to the size of the emails to be sent?? is it just storage that has been increased?

 

[Marc]

does that mean there is still a limit to the size of the emails to be sent?? is it just storage that has been increased?

does'nt say for paying or free customers but in the full story on BBC news online it said this:

Users of Hotmail Plus will also be able to send messages with attachments up to 20MB in size

 

[perth seagull]

Yahoo did something similar about a week ago.

 

[Raphael Meade]

wicked!

dont think i'll need the whole 2 gig tho!!

 

[Gwylan]

<smug git>Some of us already have a gigabyte of storage with Gmail </smug git>

 

[Kenhead]

So more pointless e-mails from andy in my inbox then

 

[Rangdo]

Yahoo did something similar about a week ago.

Yeah, I got that. Because all the others are all upping theirs Hotmail's offereing looks piss poor in comparison. About time. 2Mb was pathetic really.