Hotmail increases storage space from 2MB to 250MB

Seems that Hotmail have decided to enter the battle with Google, and Yahoo over the free online email storage capacity.

Current scores appear to be...
Google 1GB (which works out to be 1000MB)
Yahoo 100MB (2GB if you have already paid something like the $25ish a year for extra frills)
Hotmail 250MB (although not yet active)

It was good of Google to start the ball rolling. Mind you Yahoo offer a lot more free services for just the time it takes to sign up ONCE, and not forgetting FREE either. The email I received from Hotmail simply said that there were more things to come, one of them being virus protection, but this is nothing really new.

The only relevant part of the whole email was as follows...
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.

But still, one of my current freebie faves is the Yahoo Briefcase, which can hold up to 30MB of anything you like! I use it all the time to stash a whole box of tricks. As soon as someone knows you can fix a computer, you could be in the middle of a time travelling adventure, in the mesosoic-cretacious-oldness period of time and I cave man will whip out his laptop, complaining of missing DLL files!!

Don't mock the free stuff, quite often it does the job just as well as the pay versions. With a copy of Open Office, a Yahoo account (email, calendar, groups, online storage, web space with web building tools) you could easily run a business and not even OWN a PC!!



Hotmail
Playing catch up, but I think they have a lot more catching up to do...