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Microsoft Corps Hotmail will become the latest Webbased email service to increase the amount of storage space available for its free accounts following similar moves by rivals
Beginning later this summer the company plans to increase the amount of storage for its free Hotmail account inboxes to 250 megabytes up from two megabytes Users also will be able to send larger attachments up to 10 megabytes
The Hotmail changes announced Wednesday follow Google Incs plans for its Gmail service with megabytes of free storage The leading competitor in the Web email field Yahoo Inc...
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The email wars heated up yesterday as Microsoft offered a massive new storage capacity for its free Hotmail customers moving ahead of Yahoo as the two rivals look to head off a challenge from Google
Microsoft said it would offer its free Hotmail customers in multiple markets 250 megabytes of storage up from 25 megabytes
That is more than double the 100 megabytes offered for free by Yahoo which recently boosted its capacity
Both Microsoft and Yahoo are working to fend off a challenge from Google which plans to offer free email accounts with a full gigabyte of storage capacity representing some pages...
MSN Enters E-Mail Storage Battle news
is fighting back to retain the loyalty of its email customers who might be lured away with the offer of extra storage from
Google
and
Yahoo
With the falling cost of storage email services are keen to keep customers visiting their revenuegenerating portals Besides storage is offering automatic virus scanning and spam filters
Hotmail was one of the first email services to offer free desktop email and Web Mail It now has 170 million customers worldwide according to
Microsoft
The service is available in 38 markets and 18 languages...
Hotmail boosts storage capacity news
California Reuters Microsoft Corp plans to give paying customers for its Hotmail email service 2 gigabytes of storage and boost the size limits on free accounts matching similar moves earlier this month by rival Yahoo Inc the company said Wednesday
Microsoft also said that it will roll out free email and antivirus protection to all the 170 million Hotmail customers worldwide that will both scan and clean incoming and outgoing email for viruses and worms before they can enter a customers inbox
The changes will start early in July Redmond Washingtonbased Microsoft said...
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Microsoft Corps Hotmail will become the latest Webbased email service to increase the amount of storage space available for its free accounts following similar moves by rivals
Beginning later this summer the company plans to increase the amount of storage for its free Hotmail account inboxes to 250 megabytes up from two megabytes Users also will be able to send larger attachments up to 10 megabytes
The Hotmail changes announced Wednesday follow Google Incs plans for its Gmail service with megabytes of free storage The leading competitor in the Web email field Yahoo Inc...