Hotmail upgrades storage from 2MB to 250MB

I woke up this morning and saw the following message in my Hotmail inbox:

Dear MSN® Hotmail® Member:

Congratulations on your storage upgrade from 2MB to 250MB!

As a valued MSN Hotmail Member, you have been specially selected to receive a special storage upgrade - at no cost to you. We've increased the storage capacity of your Hotmail account from 2MB to 250MB and increased your attachment size from 1MB to 10MB.

I know this was announced a long time ago, but hey, still nice to see them follow through. Although, I wonder how long it will be before Microsoft tries offering 1GB accounts so they can compete with Google's Gmail. Then again, as far as I know Gmail is still in "beta" and a closed program, whereas Hotmail probably has a massively huge installed user base.

Posted by peter on November 02, 2004 at 09:45 AM
Comments

yeah,

they did not roll it out to everybody at a go (like yahoo did). I got my increase about a month ago, and I have friends who had theirs much earlier... how soon you get it might actually be a function of how regularly you use the service... i don't know about 1gb... i still have no use for 250mb anyway

Posted by: eokyere at November 2, 2004 03:54 PM