Hotmail Goes 1000 MB
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Hotmail was down for the past 8~10 hours, and has just came back to service with a big surprise:
All accounts were upgraded to 1GB storage space!
The downtime, which was a bit too long for the core MSN service, was apparently used to perform the upgrade. I’ve checked several Hotmail accounts and looks like the upgrade went through all accounts regardless of country or account age.
Microsoft has paid its Hotmail storage volume poor attention since the early beginning. Free Hotmail accounts used to start with 2 MBs of storage space and were later expanded to 25 MBs. Microsoft’s main competitors, Google and Yahoo!, have been continuously increasing their storage capacities and upgrading/adding to their services as well. Google currently features 2785 MBs of storage capacity while Yahoo! features 1000 MBs. Yahoo! has also launched a new AJAX-based mail interface recently. Although still in Beta, the new Yahoo! Mail Beta looks very promising.
Instead of working out its Hotmail service, Microsoft decided to launch a new Live Mail service, which was coldly welcomed by Hotmail users.
The new Live Mail was introduced in Beta stage, while (functionally-speaking) was pre-alpha! Live Mail lacked core web-mail features and didn’t even work for some browsers. Hotmail users have been invited to upgrade their accounts to Live Mail but only few tried and retained the upgrade.
Microsoft later decided to feature 1000 MBs of storage space for its Live Mail users, but looks like the majority of users didn’t bother.
During the past year, tricks have crossed the Internet on how to increase Hotmail’s storage capacity to 250 and 1000 MBs. The 250 MB upgrade, which I previously posted about, did actually work. The 1000 MB upgrade, however, was merely a trick to fool Hotmail to upgrade the storage space by submitting a deceitful request to join Live Mail. The trick did work, but few days later Hotmail used to perform the upgrade to Live Mail. Upon downgrading, the 25/250 MB capacity was restored.
Anyways, those tricks are now history as all Hotmail accounts should shortly be upgraded to 1GB. Rumors say that Microsoft is already planning for a further 2GB, or even a 4GB upgrade, which I think is too good to be true! (ma ba7o6 be themte :P)
All accounts were upgraded to 1GB storage space!
The downtime, which was a bit too long for the core MSN service, was apparently used to perform the upgrade. I’ve checked several Hotmail accounts and looks like the upgrade went through all accounts regardless of country or account age.
Microsoft has paid its Hotmail storage volume poor attention since the early beginning. Free Hotmail accounts used to start with 2 MBs of storage space and were later expanded to 25 MBs. Microsoft’s main competitors, Google and Yahoo!, have been continuously increasing their storage capacities and upgrading/adding to their services as well. Google currently features 2785 MBs of storage capacity while Yahoo! features 1000 MBs. Yahoo! has also launched a new AJAX-based mail interface recently. Although still in Beta, the new Yahoo! Mail Beta looks very promising.
Instead of working out its Hotmail service, Microsoft decided to launch a new Live Mail service, which was coldly welcomed by Hotmail users.
The new Live Mail was introduced in Beta stage, while (functionally-speaking) was pre-alpha! Live Mail lacked core web-mail features and didn’t even work for some browsers. Hotmail users have been invited to upgrade their accounts to Live Mail but only few tried and retained the upgrade.
Microsoft later decided to feature 1000 MBs of storage space for its Live Mail users, but looks like the majority of users didn’t bother.
During the past year, tricks have crossed the Internet on how to increase Hotmail’s storage capacity to 250 and 1000 MBs. The 250 MB upgrade, which I previously posted about, did actually work. The 1000 MB upgrade, however, was merely a trick to fool Hotmail to upgrade the storage space by submitting a deceitful request to join Live Mail. The trick did work, but few days later Hotmail used to perform the upgrade to Live Mail. Upon downgrading, the 25/250 MB capacity was restored.
Anyways, those tricks are now history as all Hotmail accounts should shortly be upgraded to 1GB. Rumors say that Microsoft is already planning for a further 2GB, or even a 4GB upgrade, which I think is too good to be true! (ma ba7o6 be themte :P)
10 Response(s) to "Hotmail Goes 1000 MB"
Devil's Mind said:
New old news... Interesting!
naturalblu said:
thats good, now i can get more FW'S yaay :D
Amer said:
I think Yahoo is much better regarding the mail services :D
Ghaith said:
Devil's Mind
Which part of it? the new or the old? ;)
Naturalblu
Yeah, now you can keep all the world's forwards in your inbox :D
Amer
Both Yahoo! and Google are better actually. But Hotmail has one good advantage; it's a Microsoft service, and it's integrated into MSN and Windows Live Messenger, as well as other Microsoft products. That's the only reason am sticking to my Hotmail account :)
naturalblu said:
hey ghith plz when i see u online next time plz send me that game crack "puzzel whatever" thx ;o)
omar said:
I think it's quite a nice surprise
though I don't care more or less about hotmail
I'm more into Yahoo...
but still,
yeah
Ghaith said:
Naturalblu
Hey! Are you pointing out that I am (la sama7allah :P) creating and distributing cracks for unlicensed software? ;)
Omar
Definitely a nice surprise, especially when you're a user of Hotmail :)
Gerrit Vermeulen said:
I like hotmail a lot more than Google or Yahoo. Maybe because I am used to it. It's awesome that they exanded it to 1 GB.
But when will the size of the file you can SEND expand? you can only send something like 2 mb...
Qwaider قويدر said:
I've been enjoying 2 GB space for all my hotmail accounts for at least a year. And the Beta wasn't all that bad
In fact, I prefer it 100:1 to google mail. Which I've also had for years but have just not grew to like it to the point that I would actually use it
Better yet, with Live domains, you can add your own email addresses to your own domain, and you know what's best? You get to have 40 Email addresses with 2GB each on that domain all for you ..
I think that last part, on it's own is worth it. And yes, you can make it your MSN address just like a hot mail, and login to it just as you would login to hotmail. It's fantastic
At any rate, It's good that these mega services are competing (for us customers to enjoy better features, and better results, faster service, bigger capacities ...etc)
It's so funny when my hotmail account has 2 GB of storage, when my corporate email inbox has only 100MB
Ghaith said:
Gerrit Vermeulen
I don't think they're going to do that any soon. This will simply turn Hotmail into a file hosting service :D
Qwaider
Personally, I'd prefer a Hotmail account over a corporate account. Hotmail is free and you don't have to worry about the service or the sustainability of your account as long as you keep using it :)
And I second your views regarding the competition between these services being in our favor as customers :D
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