2GB of Storage For MSN Accounts
Joel mentioned to me that you can get 2GB of free storage on Hotmail with an @msn.com address. There are instructions there how to sign up for that. While it's a very nice offer, though strange that only MSN Explorer users can access that. Maybe there are just testing the service out with those users, and will maybe expand the offer to all users in time. Once GMail is out of beta, the other free e-mail services will need to come up with something.
But I don't plan to sign up for this. It is very nice that it works in all browsers, such as Opera, but rumor seems to be that Opera is working with Google so that version 7.6 will be compatible with GMail.
Not only that, while Hotmail does have some nice improvements recently, the features and ease of use in GMail would make it very hard to switch away from it. Plus, I have already imported all of my e-mail and contacts into GMail, so I don't want to have to do that all over again.
But I don't plan to sign up for this. It is very nice that it works in all browsers, such as Opera, but rumor seems to be that Opera is working with Google so that version 7.6 will be compatible with GMail.
Not only that, while Hotmail does have some nice improvements recently, the features and ease of use in GMail would make it very hard to switch away from it. Plus, I have already imported all of my e-mail and contacts into GMail, so I don't want to have to do that all over again.