Rockney

I just received and email from msn hotmail.. check it out..
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Dear MSNŽ HotmailŽ 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.

ZachCHartwell

I've recieved no such e-mail. Would be interesting to see if they do it to compete with yahoo and other such companies.

MrEastSide

What I don't understand is why all these companies are increasing the mailbox limit to such an enormous size?

I mean yeah it's great to be able to send mp3's, short video's etc... But... If I want to send something large to someone (Usually a file over 3MB) I do it over a chat client. Do I really need 250MB to store 2-10kb email messages?

Rockney

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Cereal

It's real. Hotmail is going to 250 MB, so what?

Not a big deal, they are just trying to keep up with yahoo and gmail

Hardcore Rock Superstar

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Microsoft is in alliance with a few big companies, Comcast, Yahoo, Earthlink etc in try'n to build a better spam filter system. Apparenlty microsoft has already implemented what they've created so far into hotmail, which seems to be working well as i get very few actual spam emails into my email in box and maybe 2 or 3 into my spam folder a day - which doesn't worry me. As mentinoed above along with this new system, they're going to be implementing an incoming and outgoing email virus scan which is pretty neat.

They figure they can block 95% of all spam! Hotmail really will rock that much more if we get larger email accts! Even most ISP's only offer 10mb accts and i've found hotmail to have the best spam filtering system!

I realize most of this may not pertain to the topic at hand, but it's somewhat related and seemed like the right place to post it all

Blinddemonz

Isn't hotmail the main one that charges for extra storage? And now they're going free because everyone else is still free with more storage space?

Scheidl

I aslo got the email............also read
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.

this is gonna be great