Hotmail Email expands to 5 & 10 Gig

Posted August 15, 2007

I was transferring over a post tonight from 2005 about Yahoo! Mail growing in size and I thought I would be remiss if I didn’t mention what I read about Hotmail today.

I read that Microsoft is increasing space from 2 Gig to 4 / 5 Gig on all free Hotmail accounts, and 10 Gig on the paid accounts. I checked my account, nothing had changed as of yet, but it was a new post. I am sure in the coming month that will be different.

Not that I don’t love Google, but here’s hoping they keep pace. The end users always benefit from competition. Now, Google didn’t budge when Yahoo! increased it space a month or two back to unlimited, so there is no reason to think they will here either. But…it is Microsoft, and I have to believe that they hate Microsoft the most and would view Yahoo! as less of a threat.

Either way, I never thought I could use so much space on my email, but I am finding ways. Part of the problem being I don’t have the feature to remove attachments, but still. Given the opportunity, users will find new ways to use what is given and then demand more.