powerdafuture Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 This ought to be pretty interesting tonight...:) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2345682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiZi Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Looks like a MSN Techsupport call center is about to get a security audit. You coulda atleast removed the word 'Mentor Call' from your subject line, I would have. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2345695 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomwarren Veteran Posted June 23, 2004 Veteran Share Posted June 23, 2004 You'll all see ;) Eat your words :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2345701 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNRambo Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Bearded Kirklander said: I hope we are not being made fools of. That would suck. :(On the HTTP access, it is wicked fast on my system. It checks every like 5 or 10 minutes and takes hardly any time at all to check my accounts. I have one account for forums and one for newsgroups. Both usually check very fast. Nearly as fast as my regular ISP. I'm not sure why it would be slow on some systems and not on others. Odd stuff. Sorry for your trouble. you notice that but i said that 3 pages earlier and noone said anything :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2345709 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antoxicion Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 and why would u want hotmail over gmail... except the fact that some of u want to keep your hotmail adresses. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2345711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiZi Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Oh no, its true. Just the guy who leaked the Screenshot of the e-mail is clearly in one of the non-english MSN Techsupport Centers. I work in an english one and our Mentor Call looks waaaay different. Wonder how long till their call center gets an audit :rolleyes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2345716 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulstorm Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 *edited remarks - previous poster basically said something similar* Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2345785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearded Kirklander Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 antoxicion said: and why would u want hotmail over gmail... except the fact that some of u want to keep your hotmail adresses. Cause Gmail is elitist! :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2345792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearded Kirklander Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 sumeet said: you notice that but i said that 3 pages earlier and noone said anything :( Sorry man. I have no idea. These forums are haunted or something. :omg: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2345809 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxvf Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Well we will know about the truth soon.. but Firstly would like to thank Google [Gmail]... without which we wouldnt have seen any changes in mail boxes... also few other providers apart from big guns have changed there size of mail boxes. Well this is the list of what i know.. Spymac 1GB Yahoo 100MB Rediff 1GB ....... ....... Others will follow.. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2345940 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomwarren Veteran Posted June 23, 2004 Veteran Share Posted June 23, 2004 http://news.com.com/Hotmail+to+offer+250MB...ml?tag=nefd.top Guess they're "fake" too. heh :rolleyes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2345983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajapi Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 is reddif fast or is it like spymac? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2346037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryguy2008 Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 Do you work for MSN or something? Ryan Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2346080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger_my_passion Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 Ajapi said: is reddif fast or is it like spymac? Even a sloth (the slowest moving land animal) is faster than spymac. Yeah, rediff is fast. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2346092 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxvf Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 rediff is known as lighting mail by the providers... but its really fast compared to Hotmail and Yahoo.... spymac is slower that snail mail :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2346132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearded Kirklander Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 creamhackered said: http://news.com.com/Hotmail+to+offer+250MB...ml?tag=nefd.topGuess they're "fake" too. heh :rolleyes: I wish it had more details in the story. Are there only going to be 2 plans to replace all of the current plans for Hotmail? How come the ROLLEYES smile does not have its eyes rolling up like most other places do? The one here looks kinda goofy compared to others. Can that be fixed? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2346222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearded Kirklander Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 zxvf said: rediff is known as lighting mail by the providers... but its really fast compared to Hotmail and Yahoo.... spymac is slower that snail mail :p Yeah. Spymac mail is absolute crap. Doesn't even work most of the time and their web page is really slow, even with some recent changes. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2346225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxvf Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 I suggest u try rediff ... it has amazing speed.. you will forget about spymac in seconds :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2346234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearded Kirklander Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 zxvf said: I suggest u try rediff ... it has amazing speed.. you will forget about spymac in seconds :p But Spymac does give you 100 meg of free web space that you can manage with FTP. That is cool. Does anyone else do that? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2346251 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxvf Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 Well i was just speaking about Email here .... not about web space... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2346269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3ta Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 I wonder when msnhotmail users in Australia will get this free upgrade. :ermm: I still have just 2MB. :/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2346284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearded Kirklander Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 This is the current setup with hotmail accounts: So are all 4 of these categories being merged into a single one at $19.95 a year? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2346289 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearded Kirklander Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 Here is something from AP: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...crosoft_hotmail Quote By ALLISON LINN, AP Business Writer SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail will become the latest Web-based e-mail service to increase the amount of storage space available for its free accounts, following similar moves by rivals. Beginning later this summer, the company plans to increase the amount of storage for its free Hotmail account inboxes to 250 megabytes, up from two megabytes. Users also will be able to send larger attachments, up to 10 megabytes. The Hotmail changes announced Wednesday follow Google Inc.'s plans for its Gmail service, with 1,000 megabytes of free storage. The leading competitor in the Web e-mail field, Yahoo! Inc (Nasdaq:YHOO - news)., recently upgraded its free mail accounts to 100 megabytes of storage. Blake Irving, a corporate vice president with Microsoft's MSN online division, said the company hadn't heard that customers were eager to bulk up storage on Hotmail accounts. But, he said, amid the attention surrounding e-mail storage, the company didn't want competitors to have an edge with larger storage capacities. "Our users haven't cared about storage and we just wanted to take it off the table," he said. Irving says users are much more worried about issues like spam and security. Beginning next month, the Redmond, Wash., software giant also plans to bolster the antivirus protection for its free e-mail accounts. Previously, Hotmail would scan incoming e-mails for viruses and give users the option to delete infected files. Now, Irving said, the service will offer to clean up the attachment, removing the virus but still allowing viewing of the e-mail. The company used to offer this service only as part of its paid e-mail offerings. Microsoft also has previously asked Hotmail users to pay between $19.95 and $59.95 a year to get between 10 and 100 megabytes of storage. Now that those levels of storage will be free, Microsoft says it will charge $19.95 a year for users who want two gigabytes of online storage. Microsoft's Hotmail service attracted nearly 34.1 million unique users in May, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, trailing Yahoo, which had 40.4 million unique e-mail users. So it does look like there will only be two levels of HOTMAIL service. The FREE of 250 meg/10 meg attachments, and the PAID for $19.95 a year at 2 gig with 20 meg attachments. Sounds competitive, to be sure. I had not expected them to collapse all of their offerings down to a single paid one, especially at $19.95, but I guess Yahoo forced their hand. Cool, eh? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2346362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3ta Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 Suddenly the $20 a year plan sounds really good, not that 2GB of storage - but the ability to POP! :cool: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2346396 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazebee_ Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 They're allowing pop access? or is dat only 2 paid users Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/181799-msnhotmail-ups-storage-space/page/3/#findComment-2346410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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