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freighter fighter

Post Thu Jun 24, 2004 8:02 am

What is going on?

Upgrade announcement for ALL MSN Hotmail customers June 24th, 2004

We are delighted to announce that MSN® Hotmail®, the world’s most popular free Web-based e-mail service, will be undergoing a major upgrade starting in early July. We will be introducing free e-mail anti-virus protection to all the 170 million MSN Hotmail customers worldwide, making MSN Hotmail the only free global e-mail service to both scan and clean incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses and worms before they can enter your inbox.

All MSN Hotmail customers have, or will be receiving, a service update email detailing the new and exciting changes. Further updates will be sent over the next few weeks so keep an eye on your inbox.

Later this summer, all free MSN Hotmail accounts will receive 125 times their current e-mail storage with the introduction of 250MB inboxes, and have the ability to send attachments up to 10 MB. This is in addition to the new scanning and cleaning of incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses and worms. MSN Hotmail customers will also receive MSN Calendar free, enabling both individual and shared diaries.

MSN Extra Storage to be upgraded to MSN Hotmail Plus
All current MSN Hotmail Extra Storage subscribers will be upgraded to our new premium web service, MSN Hotmail Plus due to launch later this summer.

MSN Hotmail Plus will be priced at £14.99* and will provide 2 GB of online storage for email and the ability to send 20MB attachments, as well as additional offline storage limited only by the size of your computer’s hard drive. MSN Hotmail Plus subscribers will also receive additional benefits, including a more streamlined Web e-mail experience with no graphical adverts and no account expiration.

For customers who need more storage for their Hotmail account in the weeks leading to upgrade then our MSN Extra Storage services will remain on sale until MSN Hotmail Plus is launched. However, we would recommend subscribing to the MSN Extra Storage 10MB at £14.99 service as this will be automatically upgraded to the MSN Hotmail Plus service and is also priced at £14.99 per year.

MSN Premium and MSN Plus upgrades
MSN Premium and MSN Plus subscribers will also receive 2 GB of online storage for email and the ability to send 20MB attachments. Click here for more.

We hope you find these upgrades exciting and continue to enjoy using MSN Hotmail and our premium web services subscriptions.


why are all the webmail services being so generous all of a sudden?

Nickless V2

Post Thu Jun 24, 2004 8:20 am

Resession I guess.

Who cares, now I can actually send mail through Hotmail again

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Celbrating one year of Daftness

Tawakalna

Post Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:14 am

it's called competition in a rapidly expanding marketplace, with many interwebulised companies like MS, Yahoo etc having to offer more and more. Bear in mind that, say 8yrs ago you got 33.6kbps access, and a p*ssy little mailbox and 1 e-mail addy, and you paid through the nose for all that. Now people demand a lot more, ISPs haven't got it all their own way anymore, and have to respond to consumer demands by increasing the scope and quality of their services including for free, the point being that whatever online storage capacity your given, you will soon exceed it and prob just shell out the few quid extra needed. Don't forget also who these big boys' mass market is, moms n dads n kids - they aren't going to go scouting around for deals and free stuff like we are, they're one stop shoppers - they'll stay with MSN or Yahoo or AOL no matter what really because half the time they dont even KNOW they can change ISP, or what an ISP even is. it all just happens. I'm married to one remember?

freighter fighter

Post Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:44 am

you're married to an isp?

Chips

Post Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:01 am

I'm just waiting for them to upgrade the connections or whatever its called in England, so that we can start getting some serious connection speed at a fraction of the price. I keep hearing/reading connections of 3 meg in most countries for the price i am paying for 512kb - and its all cause our country didn't invest/is ripping us off. I hear that BT also have had it so that they will have to upgrade to allow for more competition, due to the fact that other providers still pay BT to use the lines..........which means they cannot truly be competative. Just wish that would flippin hurry up instead!!!!!

Tawakalna

Post Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:42 am

no ff I'm married to one of those people for whom it all just "happens" but as it is she does do some support work for BTInternet (yeh really. I ask you)

arton alpha

Post Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:08 pm

my provider gcnet is going to be doing that to (yes it's about time i'm sick of viruses)
edit- the anti-spam/virus bit anyway (i have no use for attachments)

Edited by - arton alpha on 6/24/2004 2:10:32 PM

Indy11

Post Thu Jun 24, 2004 2:07 pm

@ff

Like Taw said, competition.

My post in Wolfy's thread, same reason as Yahoo

With Google wading into the stream with 1 gig for everyone, everyone else needs to fight back to hold-on to their subscribers. It's not just the membership fee income but the total subscriber base size/count that generates profits for them (advertising value, user behavior data and statistics, etc., etc.)

<Edit>

Note also how Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Earthlink are banding together on the anti spam front and notice who is still absent from that... Google. But then Google also has been proclaiming that they have a surefire strategy to prevent spam, etc., etc.

Edited by - Indy11 on 6/24/2004 3:09:43 PM

Esquilax

Post Thu Jun 24, 2004 6:08 pm

Hmm, I haven't received that email *looks around suspiciously*.

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