Hotmail to offer more email space, offers 2 Gigabytes

Craven, explain something to me. If I am a paying customer of Hotmail, how do I get connected to the Internet if I don't have DSL or some other always on service? Does Hotmail provide a dialup link? Can it be used for web surfing also?

Hotmail is a mail service, MSN offers internet service.

Personally I recommend against using ISP email, and I also recommend against using email providers. I recomend registering your own domain and hosting it wherever you want and never having to change it.

Would you change it for $$$?

A coworker recently settled with a company who wanted his long ago registered domain name for $50,000. First they tried to take it from him until they realized he'd registered it before they even existed.

Depends on how much money. I'd not sell the able2know.com domain for 50,000.

Update: the free account upgrade is to 250 MB.

i can't seem to find the link to upgrade my account to 250MB... or maybe it isn't available yet?

I'm happy with my newly expanded Yahoo email mailbox.

how strange, they've been reducing the email size for the last 1 or 2 years.

The reduction of email storage was spurred by the dot com bust, the advertising prices collapsed and the portals were looking to monetize through subscriptions.

Lowering the limit was meant to entice paid subscriptions.

Now, there is a new player on the market (Google) who is threatening the big email providers (Microsoft and Yahoo) because they threaten Google's search dominance.

Competition is good, I can't wait till there's real search competition as well.

Me either, I still have 2mb and it sucks. Help craven!

I don't believe the storage upgrade has rolled out, some of the other changes have, but I haven't seen the storage upgrade yet either.

The 100MB upgrade from yahoo! is very convenient, not only for storage, but also for sending and receiving attachment. And for me, more than enough!

yes i heard google will be launching gmail sometime in the future, offering a free 1gb of space and a google search engine to find an e-mail in your inbox.

I've got one of the beta g-mail accounts. It's hard to tell how useful it's going to be, without more people to practice with.

Thanks for linking us back here, RP.

Seems like the hotmail roll-out of the increased free account size is well underway, and I think all Yahoo users have the larger accounts now. It's an embarassment of riches. I definitely don't have enough to say to fill 4 email accounts. I used to, when you only had enough room for about 20 messages!

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Hi All,
I have been using HOtmail for about 5 years now and its been fine I don't check my mail on the web I use Outlook Express and guess what Hotmail have just done?????

Taken away the ability to access your email with Outlook and other email programmes unless you pay to be upgraded.

So I can't wait to get my hands on a Gmail account as Gmail DOES allow pop3 access not that you will need it with the amount of storage and I have heard they have a little programme that tells you when there is mail in your indox so you don't have to go to the website evry hour to check your mail GREAT

Regards

Kev

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They should change the name from Hotmail to NOTmail

Hotmail did upgrade my online storage to 250MB...

Yep, mine too, last week I believe!