Hotmail Joins the Fray!

[Alex Pelan]

An email my friend forwarded to me yesterday:


IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR ACCOUNT
************************************************** ********************

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

So, first Yahoo steps their storage up to 100mb, now microsoft has to outdo them and go up to 250! Sounds like they are getting more and more afraid of Gmail.

Comments would be appreciated. Will this change your opinion on switching to Yahoo/Gmail?

Personally, I would say that I like the Gmail interface a lot more than hotmail anyways, even though I probably don't need 250 mb even. Not to mention I have noticed that Gmail is much faster.