Hotmail storage upped to 250mb :D

hyper_raider · Nov 18, 2004

mine still not upgraded too....

Viper007Bond · Nov 25, 2004

Hmm, was at my super-old Hotmail account today and discovered that I had 2000MB of storage. Yes, nearly 2 GB.

Jet · Nov 25, 2004

Viper007Bond said:

Hmm, was at my super-old Hotmail account today and discovered that I had 2000MB of storage. Yes, nearly 2 GB.
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Why is mine still 2Mb???

Chai · Nov 25, 2004

They are upgrading slowly. I've already read reports that some got, some don't quite sometime ago...

u suck.com · Nov 25, 2004

so slow..jz like all microsoft products....my account is also very old too...but still 2mb

mahakanjus · Nov 25, 2004

be patient my young padawan...

(lame attempt at lame joke)

Jet · Nov 25, 2004

Dunno still have to wait for how long before they upgrade mine.

Dashken · Nov 25, 2004

It's been a few months already.

NeoSquall · Nov 26, 2004

man.. I need the space urgently... my hotmail is running out of space..

hyper_raider · Nov 26, 2004

NeoSquall said:

man.. I need the space urgently... my hotmail is running out of space..
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get gmail

NeoSquall · Nov 26, 2004

nahh.. Im lazy to go out telling everyone that I've changed my mail... haha.. my hotmail is important too

CleanSerious5 · Dec 12, 2004

Pssst! Do you use hotmail? Are you still struggling to cope with using 2MB? Wanna be the first to have it upgraded to 250MB within the week… for free?

When Google entered the free email service market with its Gmail, it made a huge splash by offering 1GB of free storage which made the other free email services like Yahoo and Microsoft scrambling to remain competitive against Google.

Within weeks, Yahoo announced its upgrade to 100MB, followed by Hotmail's announcement that it will be giving 250MB. At the time, Yahoo was offering 4MB while Hotmail was offering 2MB. Both services charged subscription fees for people who wanted more memory.

The shakeup brought about by competition was so severe that market analysts came out and said that free email services can no longer depend on memory space as a revenue stream. Indeed, with the increase, it may not even be a competitive advantage… until the users start to stuff up their accounts again. Everybody in the industry was terribly excited by the freebies. And with the recent mega-IPO by Google fresh in their minds, people were predicting the return of the "good old days" of free money and free-flowing beer again.

But that was in April.

After Google's IPO, no other mega tech IPO came about and it was marked off as an anomaly. Everyone in the City and Big Apple went back to the drudge. And the Promised Land offered by Hotmail and Yahoo hardly made a ripple in Asia.

But it is out there.

Not that long ago, Microsoft announced that all of Hotmail's existing users in major markets such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Spain and Italy would be getting their 250MB of storage soon. But, for some reason, not for Singapore and the rest of the world.

Okay, so here is what you, the readers staying in sunny Singapore, can do to get your grubby hands on the free 250MB of storage.

This is my personal experience. What I did was to change my profile in Hotmail and do a quick "virtual immigration" to the United States, and settle in a nice area I've seen in a postcard. And voila, within a week, when I woke up from my beauty sleep, my overflowing 2MB email became a roomy 250MB account.

And if you, like me, don't care to read about the weather reports in United States and worry more about whether you will be caught in the rain in balmy Singapore, you can switch your profile back and do another quick "virtual migration" back to Singapore. Don't worry, your account will remain at 250MB. At least it has for me, for the past three weeks.

While Microsoft may have its own reasons for staggering the release, we have our own personal needs to take care of.

So if you are thinking of doing a quick virtual migration as well, you might want to consider moving into my old place in San Francisco, California, Zip Code 94111.
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u suck.com · Dec 12, 2004

i just changed my profile....see wht's going to happen....

Jet · Dec 12, 2004

Nothing happens to mine account leh...

u suck.com · Dec 12, 2004

it says have to wait for a day, rite?

Jet · Dec 13, 2004

One day already passed.. Nothing happened...
Still 2MB..

u suck.com · Dec 13, 2004

yeah....damn.. i'll still wait for a few days...

Brian · Dec 13, 2004

i'll stick with gmail for now

mahakanjus · Dec 13, 2004

is Gmail online already? is it good?

zy · Dec 13, 2004

mahakanjus said:

is Gmail online already? is it good?
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