Microsoft to increase Hotmail storage to 5 Gb
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.
yeah they took a lot of time in upgrading mine to 2 Gb also
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…
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.
I remember using hotmail in the 90′s heh. At least it looks a lot better now.
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.
Mine only 1Gb *sigh
one more reason to think about Live Mail…. I’m happy still with my Yahoo mail though!
I think they will also be incresing the speed as this is the basic thing which the users want .
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
