Hotmail mailbox size increase?

[SunWuKong]

i logged on to my Hotmail today and all of a sudden noticed that i've been allocated 250 MBs. how the hell did i go from 2MBs to 250MBs? i hope MSN didn't get a hold of my credit card number somehow and is charging me for it. is this happening to anybody else out there?



(yes, i know a lot of people think Hotmail sucks, but i actually don't mind it. and it's got pretty good junk mail filtering now.)

[younggiftedandblack]

Originally Posted by SunWuKong

i logged on to my Hotmail today and all of a sudden noticed that i've been allocated 250 MBs. how the hell did i go from 2MBs to 250MBs? i hope MSN didn't get a hold of my credit card number somehow and is charging me for it. is this happening to anybody else out there?



(yes, i know a lot of people think Hotmail sucks, but i actually don't mind it. and it's got pretty good junk mail filtering now.)

I noticed that also. I logged on and it said I was only using 1% of allocated space when the other day it said I was up to 65%. i thought at 1st that they had deleted some of my old e-mails.

[sinisterpanda]

They've been planning a inbox increase for a long time now, i think it's to compete with yahoo or something.

WTF! I still only have 2 megs...those bitches.

[Hanuman]

Can't wait till Gmail is out. Down with microsoft!

[bluemonq]

umm, gmail is out already ill send you an invite if you pm me
and they're rolling out the bump in space in phases; i've had 250 MB for a few months now. still, i'm stuck with the old habit of checking everyday, promptly removing spam.

[Hanuman]

wait, I thought gmail was only out in Beta? I'm so out of the loop!

[sinisterpanda]

Hey hanuman, where do you live in nyc? Please don't tell me brooklyn or queens!

[FrankieY18]

Originally Posted by sinisterpanda

Hey hanuman, where do you live in nyc? Please don't tell me brooklyn or queens!

pssh what's wrong w/ brookly and queens

[sinisterpanda]

Originally Posted by FrankieY18

pssh what's wrong w/ brookly and queens

everyone I talk to is from brooklyn and queens, it just gets annoying!!

Hotmail sucks, why would they do it in phases?!?!?!?!

[SunWuKong]

Originally Posted by sinisterpanda

Hotmail sucks, why would they do it in phases?!?!?!?!

speaking from an IT project management perspective, you never want to implement change all at once, all across the board. if there are defects, they would be very costly to fix and recover from.

[Hanuman]

Manhattan man, no place like it!

[yoMAMA]

yeah Rad, I had 250 MB for hotmail for about a month now......



[just when i was ready to get rid of hotmail once and for all........ ]

[contra_diction]

Wow! How can I get free increase in space? I have to have multiple hotmail accounts so I can allocate the emails I get from my main account to one of my subaccounts to save space. It's a big hassle. I could really use the extra space.

[YuheiCarreau]

Originally Posted by SunWuKong

i logged on to my Hotmail today and all of a sudden noticed that i've been allocated 250 MBs. how the hell did i go from 2MBs to 250MBs? i hope MSN didn't get a hold of my credit card number somehow and is charging me for it. is this happening to anybody else out there?



(yes, i know a lot of people think Hotmail sucks, but i actually don't mind it. and it's got pretty good junk mail filtering now.)

It's 'cause of GMail. Both Yahoo and Hotmail had to bump up their storage in preparation for the competition supplying 1 GB free of charge, with only text ads. However, if you signed up for a new account at Hotmail today, you'd only get 2 MB. Whereas Yahoo gives you the 100 MB without making you wait

[moJo]

i just got my starage increase for hotmail today or yesterday, too. and yeah, they've been doing it in phases. some of my friends got theirs bumped up a month or so ago.

i still hate hotmail, though.