Happy to open my e-mail today and see I've gone from 20mb to 2000mb. Excellent. Anyone else get the free upgrade?

I assume the Hotmail upgrade was in line with Yahoos recent upgrade .

I haven't seen this increase yet with my Hotmail account but the upgrade was announced last month. No firm date given for when it would occur. I believe this generosity on Microsoft's part was in response to both Yahoo and to what Google has proposed for an email service.

it was supposed to be the beggning of this month they were updraded

Ohhh My hotmail still only 2 MB

Ohhh My hotmail still only 2 MB

And mine

However it does say it's being upgraded to 250mb soon !

They told me that it was connected to the pay account I had with them for the bigger box,but since I only use it once in awhile I quit the pay thing.

so pobly wont get the bigger box without paying the $20

Cool...imagine how much spam you can keep in there

It will be good to store files. Also, can send 20mb attachments.

I guess 2mb users will get 250mb. And paying users will go to 2000mb.

Amazing really.

Still want a gmail account, but wary about the scanning of e-mail content deal...

The Hotmail announcement (dtd. 28-JUN-04) stated, in part:

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.

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.

Agree Google/Yahoo undoubtly forced MS into make this change. (Generosity is not one of MS's finer points. )

aye.. the date its implemented keeps on getting put back though, it "autum" now apparently

I think Hotmail screwed up on the 2000 meg,

it only lasted a day and was taken back,

they will have to at least match Yahoo etc

I Still want a gmail account, but wary about the scanning of e-mail content deal..

If you want a free 1 gig webmail account go to spymac. I have had an account with them since april and have not recieved any spam.

though with any online forum(even thaivisa) which offers an email account with their services it is an easy task to harvest the usernames online or from posts and add the required domain name to get a workable email address.

gmail is good - just use it for receiving files/attachments/pics that you couldn't receive normally in your other free (small) mailboxes. If you're worried about it's scanning/reading capabilities - don't use it for private emails. Simple, really.