I started hearing about a Hotmail storage increase back in June. Not only were reputable news sites reporting it, Hotmail/MSN themselves were reporting it. And it was supposed to be coming “very soon.”
Did they change their minds because Gmail hasn’t been as successful as they thought it would be?
I don’t use Hotmail.
Gmail is still in BETA (I’ll take an invite if anyone has one available btw)
free Yahoo email is still at 100 mb
As of right now, my free hotmail account had 25 MB of storage.
based on this link:
“sometime this fall” free email will be 250MB with 10MB attachments per email possible plus other improvements.
Paid users will be up to 2 GB of space.
No specific dates are mentioned.
Check yer mail.
Free Excite.com email is 125mb.
Both of my free hotmails are 2mb. My “paid” (friend gave me a digital coupon for 4 months free) Hotmail is 25mb.
I pay (it’s the easiest way for me to pick up my real e-mail when I’m travelling) and I get 2Gb.
Of course, if you use your “free” hotmail account with Outlook, it’s not going to be free much longer
That link is over 2 years old, and details changes which have already come into effect:
Oops my mistake i was looking at my MSN account. heh.
Uh, as of today when I checked my free hotmail account, it says I have 250mb of space.
Whoa, nice thread timing.
Mine still say’s 2 MB. Which is better than the 200k I had when I first signed up back in '97 before MS bought Hotmail.
Mine too still says 2MB, and in fact has a “warning” about being too close to capacity.
My free Yahoo! mailbox was boosted to 100MB 6 months ago at no cost.
Since I rarely use it, I’ll never run out of space! 
I’ve been using Hotmail for years and years and mine account still has only 2Mb of capacity. I, too, have been wondering when my 250Megs is coming. I have a Gmail account but everyone I’ve ever given an email address to knows my Hotmail. Gimme my promised 250Megs!
I just re-checked and it is indeed at 250mb. It was 2mb yesterday, I know because I was at 57% capacity and was going to start deleting things today.
Of course that isn’t a problem anymore since I’m now at less than 1% capacity. Not to rub it in or anything.
Hopefully they’ll adjust all the accounts in the next few days.
Yup. Its here.
I now have 250MB.
I’ve been a Hotmail user since 1997. My account was upgraded last month.
My guess is that Hotmail is going through groups of e-mail accounts and upgrading them to 250 MB. Hotmail has been around since 1996. As of 1999 they claimed over 30 million active users , so there are even more today. That’s a whole lot of accounts to upgrade. I think it’s going to take awhile for some people to see the change, especially if they signed up recently.
Mine’s still at 2 MB which is completely fine since I rarely use it and don’t want to see 250 MB of spam in there.
Coincidentally, or maybe not, my Hotmail was upgraded to 250mb right around the time I switched to Gmail. I still check my Hotmail on the off chance that someone may email me there, and to empty out the gazillion spam emails in my junk box, but I’ve found Gmail much more to my liking.