why wasn't my hotmail upgraded?

[nogrez]

i have two hotmail accounts, one was upgraded (250mb) and i can still use outlook express and the other has not been upgraded (still at 2mb) and i can no longer use outlook. i have never paid hotmail anything and i opened both up around the same time. what’s the deal?

[Bleaker]

Same thing happened to me. One account upgraded quickly, the other not until this past week. It’s taking them a while to go through the 187 million accounts.

This is from September:

MSN Hotmail in June jumped into the Web-based e-mail storage race with plans to give users 250MB of free storage—up from 2MB—and to increase storage for paying customers to 2GB.

The upgrades for free users have hit some snags. Richardson confirmed that MSN is slightly behind schedule in completing the upgrade.

MSN has begun converting based on seniority, but it now expects to complete the upgrade by the end of the year rather than in the fall, Richardson said.

“We are seeing customers consuming more storage than we anticipated, and we’re bringing more storage online,” she said.

[BurnMeUp]

It takes a while. I’m an MSN subscriber and mine just got done this week. People with free hotmail accoutns go theirs before me.

It’s a long process.