Microsoft to increase Hotmail storage to 5 Gb
By Madhur Kapoor on Aug 16, 2007 in Microsoft
Microsoft is soon going to increase the storage limit of there hotmail service to 5 Gb from a previous one of 2 gb. The move will not take place immediately but slowly among all the users. Currently Google is offering nearly 3 Gb but they have announced that users can increse it upto 9 Gb by paying a small account , Yahoo is offering Unlimited storage.
There are also going to be some performance enhancements in Hotmail and it is also going to become faster shortly. We will also see a new “report phishing” button in email and a chance to merge duplicate contacts in address book. An option will also be there to allow to users to go directly to inbox thus avoiding the extra advertising content.
I was a big fan of Hotmail in the older days . I opened my first email account with hotmail in around 1999 and it is still active today . But most of the time i use Gmail as i find it both fast and easy to use. Lets see if such moves can make users shift towards hotmail ? what do you guys think ?
I’m still having 2GB only, i guess it will take time.
Nirmal | Aug 16, 2007 | Reply
yeah they took a lot of time in upgrading mine to 2 Gb also
Madhur Kapoor | Aug 16, 2007 | Reply
It seems like thay are trying to make a comeback to top positions by providing this much space, clearly the battle seems to be shifting from yahoo to gmail…
Vaibhav | Aug 16, 2007 | Reply
I think it’s not so much about space. But the speed, that’s another thing. I am using Hotmail since 1999 and they didn’t do anything about it. That’s primary target to attract new users if you ask me.
chuck norris dude | Aug 16, 2007 | Reply
I remember using hotmail in the 90’s heh. At least it looks a lot better now.
Brown Baron | Aug 16, 2007 | Reply
I guess they need to work on making the functional aspects of Hotmail better not just give the storage. I hardly use Hotmail now. Go gmail or even yahoo.
Tech Hairball | Aug 16, 2007 | Reply
Mine only 1Gb *sigh
eches | Aug 16, 2007 | Reply
one more reason to think about Live Mail…. I’m happy still with my Yahoo mail though!
Benedict Herold | Aug 17, 2007 | Reply
I think they will also be incresing the speed as this is the basic thing which the users want .
Madhur Kapoor | Aug 18, 2007 | Reply
the battle s clearly in yahoo and gmail
gmail s having a edge over yahoo with many features like integrating chat feture in the mail itself.
my hotmail account s unused for many years
Lalit nagrath | Aug 18, 2007 | Reply
I want to see speed improvement in Hotmail and Gmail (the initial start-up time) both.
BTW, I made my first Hotmail account in 2000 and I think, it’s still active. But I use Gmail as my primary email account.
Haris | Aug 19, 2007 | Reply
Microsoft and yahoo mail both of them are relying on a jax interface to provide much more user experience, but i think they have forgotten the basics, thanks to the solid performance by the gmail.
praveen | Aug 20, 2007 | Reply
Yeah gmail rocks here but in US ,yahoo and hotmail users are much more as compared to Gmail .
Madhur Kapoor | Aug 20, 2007 | Reply
oh, whats the point… i am very much happy with my gmail and would still use it if they reduced the storage to the classic 10mb
ammusk | Sep 11, 2007 | Reply