Hotmail's response to Gmail..or something

jellyoflight · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2004 11:09 am

I remember someone posted a while ago about what Yahoo! was doing to get more people, because of gmail. Well, looks like hotmail is following...got this email yesterday:

Quote:

Dear MSN® Hotmail® Member:

As a valued MSN Hotmail Member, we want you to know that there are some exciting changes coming soon to your account that will help you do more, receive more and store more than ever before. And it's FREE.

That's not all. We're rolling out email antivirus protection as well as enhanced storage to help meet your growing needs. This will make MSN Hotmail, a world class email service that both scans and cleans ingoing and outgoing email for viruses and worms before they enter your inbox.

In addition to delivering world-class antivirus protection, you can also look forward to an upgrade in your storage capacity. In fact, you'll receive 125 times your current email storage with the introduction of a 250 MB inbox as well as the ability to send attachments up to 10 MB.

We'd like to thank you for being a valued MSN Hotmail Member and look forward to telling you about more exciting changes to your Hotmail account in the coming months.

We will send an update on when and how these exciting changes will be made to your account within two weeks. Please check your email for this important update.

Thank you, and enjoy the good news.

MSN Hotmail Member Services

Well..muhahaha...just keep going, hotmail... :evil:

quicksilvery1pore · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2004 11:33 am

I didn't received it o_O

.:Glass Miracle:. · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2004 1:00 pm

quicksilvery1pore wrote:

I didn't received it o_O

Me neither. O_o *stares expectantly at her Inbox*

Shoyru_Lover · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2004 1:28 pm

Should be annny day now

*waits* annnyday now...

FrankieG · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2004 1:36 pm

I think hotmail is eventually going to start dwindling down because of all the email upgrades the different places are having. They can't compete with google or yahoo, and they only did this because it was a last option.

Runevalkyrie · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2004 2:18 pm

In my opinion though, they have been dwindling down ever since they were bought out by Microsoft. The quality of the service has been downhill and this is just an attempt to compete, although they're not on the level anymore.

jellyoflight · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2004 2:26 pm

.:Glass Miracle:. wrote:

quicksilvery1pore wrote:

I didn't received it o_O

Me neither. O_o *stares expectantly at her Inbox*

Really? Straaange...I don't even USE hotmail much...

halfbakedbliss · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:43 pm

I'm still patiently waiting for Gmail to become open to the public, I can't wait

. Bill Gates and his MSN/Microsoft/Evil should bow down to Tux/Linux, we Linux and BSD people aren't afraid to get our hands dirty instead of submitting to his evil rule. 0:)

Crescendo · **Posts:** 631 **Joined:** Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:13 pm

halfbakedbliss wrote:

I'm still patiently waiting for Gmail to become open to the public, I can't wait

. Bill Gates and his MSN/Microsoft/Evil should bow down to Tux/Linux, we Linux and BSD people aren't afraid to get our hands dirty instead of submitting to his evil rule. 0:)

I'd be happy to give you an invite, if you want one.

halfbakedbliss · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:15 pm

Really? That'd be great!

Optimus · **Posted:** Sun Jul 11, 2004 5:54 am

Yay! 250MB!

The 1 GB thing was the only reason I was going to sign up with GMail, but I won't need to now.

quicksilvery1pore · **Posted:** Sun Jul 11, 2004 5:58 am

jellyoflight wrote:

.:Glass Miracle:. wrote:

quicksilvery1pore wrote:

I didn't received it o_O

Me neither. O_o *stares expectantly at her Inbox*

Really? Straaange...I don't even USE hotmail much...

In contrast, I check it almost everyday, and have used less than 50% the space they offered.

Yoshi · **Posted:** Sun Jul 11, 2004 6:17 am

Mm, I got that message a few days ago. I must say, that makes it a little more decent...if only they'd start filtering out spam better like Gmail.

Hey, at least I won't have to be deleting messages too often anymore. I'm still sticking mainly to Gmail though.

Alex · **Posted:** Sun Jul 11, 2004 6:23 am

Heh. I never got it.

Hotmail's been annoying me. I've been getting a bunch of spam, and I was getting an average of 5 viruses (virii?) a day sent to me. Oh yeah. Great service...

I'm sticking to Gmail now.

Ma Twit · **Posted:** Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:18 am

Drama Queen wrote:

I'd be happy to give you an invite, if you want one.

Oooh! I sent you a PM too! *crosses fingers*

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