Hotmail Now Offers 5GB Free Space

Not to be outpaced by the competition, Microsoft has jacked up their free Hotmail service to offer all users 5GB of space. Do you really need that much space? No, and even Microsoft knows this when they said, “Just when you were wondering how you’d ever fill up 2 or 4 GB of mail…”. But, lots of free storage is good regardless of how you look at things. In addition to this announcement, paid users now receive 10GB of space, and performance issues have been tackled as well.

We’ve been hearing you loud and clear across the world: speed is one of the most important aspects of a web-based email service. We’ve spent more time in this release identifying what parts of the product are slowest and fixing those. We hope that you notice an improvement when this update is released to your account, and we’ll continue our work on performance in future releases.

Source: Spaces Blog