And Hotmail kicks it up a notch...

[Plexus]

Really, the joke is on us. How many users are going to use even a fraction of 100, 250 or 1000 MB?

 

[Dell19]

If we are not paying how do we lose out?

 

[Plexus]

We don't, but people act like its such a big deal.

 

[MarineCorps]

We don't, but people act like its such a big deal.

Well lots of storage space is fine with me. More space in my hotmail account means I don't have to delte the spam in there as often.

 

[MarineCorps]

You quoted my post the wrong way round...

I accidently deleted the first sentence from the first quote after I had copied it, so I just did it wrong way round as I was to lazy to fix it.

 

[steviejay]

a gig email is pretty hefty I must admit but I'd quite like that. My friends and I send each other lots of funny pictures so being able to save all these would certainly relieve the bordom suffered during a three hour server management class

 

[Silverflame]

Really, the joke is on us. How many users are going to use even a fraction of 100, 250 or 1000 MB?

I agree, it's like the movies making the popcorn sizes bigger. When given more space than one actually needs, it's human nature to try to fill up the space as much as possible, even though it is unnecessary. One such example is people emailing random pictures to each other for no other reason than to fill up space (guilty as charged).

 

[Dell19]

It would take a lot of pictures to fill up all that space...

 

[MarineCorps]

I agree, it's like the movies making the popcorn sizes bigger. .

Cept you pay three times as much for twice as much as before.

@Dell: Care to guess how many?

 

[Ankka]

Depends on the size of the pics. And on whether it's a jpg or a bmp.

 

[Silverflame]

It would take a lot of pictures to fill up all that space...

Photoshop, it takes you places. I usually use photoshop to make image sizes smaller, but now I'm doing the opposite.

 

[Dell19]

I'm going to guess around 1500 pictures although it really would depend on the average size of the picture, what format you were using and plenty of other factors...

 

[hbdragon88]

Well, this is cool, except the fact that Hotmail is still terrible. For example, Yahoo gives you 4 months before they deactivate your account. Hotmail gives you 10 freakin' days before you lose all your contact and email, and just 1 month before freezing it and bouncing back all emails. Then they give you 3 months before they permanently delete your account. I mean...jesus...I'm not gonna log in every 10 days just to keep my contacts and email.

 

[Ankka]

Sounds like M$ is running low on server space.


I guess they are just plain evil, though.

 

[MarineCorps]

Well, this is cool, except the fact that Hotmail is still terrible. For example, Yahoo gives you 4 months before they deactivate your account. Hotmail gives you 10 freakin' days before you lose all your contact and email, and just 1 month before freezing it and bouncing back all emails. Then they give you 3 months before they permanently delete your account. I mean...jesus...I'm not gonna log in every 10 days just to keep my contacts and email.

Get your facts straight

The account policies that govern your use of Hotmail are detailed in our Online Help. Please note that you must sign into your Hotmail account at least once every 30 days. If you do not, your account will become inactive. After being inactive for 90 days, it will be deleted. You may want to save this message so you always have a handy link to this important information.

 

[hbdragon88]

MarineCorp:
1 month = 30 days
3 months = 90 days

And if they removed the 10 day "freeze," good for them, they needed to remove that.

 

[MarineCorps]

MarineCorp:
1 month = 30 days
3 months = 90 days

And if they removed the 10 day "freeze," good for them, they needed to remove that.

I am fully aware of how long a month is. However you were not only refering to the length of time befire they delted it.

 

[Dell19]

If there was a 10 day freeze then effectively no one using hotmail would be able to go on holiday and expect their account to be active when they come back...

 

[fret]

I reckon that gmail is just a storage-snowball ploy by hard disk manufacturers to increase their share price

Really, the joke is on us. How many users are going to use even a fraction of 100, 250 or 1000 MB?

The theory is that in the very near future with only a small relative increase in upstream bandwidth availablilty, when your on the phone to your sister and she says "hey, send me the photo's of your wedding" etc, ad nasuem, people can just send them 400 photo's to their gmail account - its ftp for the less-technical -thats why I have a gmail account, Im a dumbschmuck

 

[hbdragon88]

If there was a 10 day freeze then effectively no one using hotmail would be able to go on holiday and expect their account to be active when they come back...

It's what I remember from my old 2000-2001 days of using Hotmail. I'd not log in for a couple of weeks and come back to see a "Your account is frozen" message from Hotmail, as well as all my address book gone.