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Hotmail responses to Yahoo
Posted: 2004-06-24 11:17am
by Ace Pace
M$ is adding room to its Hotmail service
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/0 ... index.html
CNN wrote:SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- Microsoft Corp. plans to give paying customers for its Hotmail e-mail service 2 gigabytes of storage and boost the size limits on free accounts, matching similar moves earlier this month by rival Yahoo Inc., the company said Wednesday.
Microsoft also said that it will roll out free e-mail and anti-virus protection to all the 170 million MSN Hotmail customers worldwide that will both scan and clean incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses and worms before they can enter a customer's inbox.
The changes will start early in July, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft said.
Yahoo earlier this month made good on a promise to boost the storage it provides to users of its e-mail service, raising the stakes in the e-mail war with Web search rival Google Inc. Google has announced plans for its Gmail service that gives users 1 gigabyte of free storage, far more than offered by Yahoo or Microsoft's e-mail services.
"The playing field has changed," said Blake Irving, vice president of communication services and member platform for MSN. "We're going to take storage off the table as an issue."
Microsoft will now boost storage to 250 megabytes for users of its free MSN Hotmail and also increased the size of attachments that can be sent with e-mails, to 10 megabytes from 1 megabyte previously. Users of the free MSN Hotmail before had 2 megabytes of storage capacity.
Microsoft also announced a premium Web service called MSN Hotmail Plus, for $19.95 per year, giving customers 2 gigabytes of online storage and the ability to send 20 megabyte attachments.
All current Hotmail extra storage subscribers worldwide will be upgraded to MSN Hotmail Plus when it launches globally later this summer, Microsoft said. MSN Premium subscribers will also receive those added storage benefits later this year.
Customers of Hotmail Plus also will not see graphical advertisements -- they will be replaced by text advertisements -- and their accounts will never expire, Irving said. Users of the free Hotmail e-mail service must log in at least once every 30 days or their accounts expire.
Posted: 2004-06-24 11:25am
by General Zod
this is almost enough to make me want to switch over to hotmail. almost.
Posted: 2004-06-24 11:30am
by Coaan
And then you remember what a shitty service hotmail really is.
Seriously, hotmail gives me problems when sending to anyone at all...it takes days easily...whereas with yahoo, it's almost instant. Add to the fact that this will not be active for a long time, Yahoo is arguably the better
Posted: 2004-06-24 01:58pm
by DPDarkPrimus
Considering it takes me 5 minutes to recieve a Hotmail email sent to MYSELF... and 5 seconds sending a Gmail email to myself...
I'll keep my Hotmail account for signing up for boards and stuff.
Posted: 2004-06-24 03:13pm
by Vertigo1
Ads? I don't see any stinking ads.
*pats Mozilla with Adblock extention*
Seriously though, I never use hotmail for anything legitimate. They're good for nothing more than just something as a throwaway account. More and more forums are actually blocking web-based e-mail hosts like hotmail, yahoo, etc because of the problems they cause due to trolls.
Posted: 2004-06-24 04:51pm
by AnimeJet
You are currently using 0 MB (0%) of your 1000 MB.
Gmail doesn't even keep track of usage in KB..
Posted: 2004-06-24 09:12pm
by Slartibartfast
Yahoo is WAY too spam-friendly.
I created a Yahoo account just to use the webspace and I get 100+ spam mails daily, and I've never even ONCE used the yahoo addy anywhere.
Posted: 2004-06-24 10:24pm
by Boyish-Tigerlilly
Considering it takes me 5 minutes to recieve a Hotmail email sent to MYSELF... and 5 seconds sending a Gmail email to myself...
I'll keep my Hotmail account for signing up for boards and stuff.
Why does yours take so long. Mine is nearly instaneous.
Posted: 2004-06-24 10:51pm
by Gandalf
nimetski wrote: Considering it takes me 5 minutes to recieve a Hotmail email sent to MYSELF... and 5 seconds sending a Gmail email to myself...
I'll keep my Hotmail account for signing up for boards and stuff.
Why does yours take so long. Mine is nearly instaneous.
As does mine.
Posted: 2004-06-25 01:12am
by Praxis
I believe that hotmail has a special system where its instantaneous when you email from one hotmail user to another hotmail user. Guess it's to encourage you to have all your buddies get hotmail
Posted: 2004-06-25 01:19am
by The Morrigan
Praxis wrote:I believe that hotmail has a special system where its instantaneous when you email from one hotmail user to another hotmail user. Guess it's to encourage you to have all your buddies get hotmail
This is assuming that we have any influence at all over what our 'buddies' do.
Typical conversation between me and my friends:
FRIEND: Do you think I should study IP or Environmental law this semester?
ME: Environmental. It's a big growth area and has an open book exam.
FRIEND: Nah. I think I'll do IP.
Posted: 2004-06-25 01:22am
by phongn
Praxis wrote:I believe that hotmail has a special system where its instantaneous when you email from one hotmail user to another hotmail user. Guess it's to encourage you to have all your buddies get hotmail
That makes perfect sense if you consider that you're more or less sending email from one server to another within Hotmail's datacenter.