hotmail giveing out free space ?

[lostwithin]

Hey everyone, well I just went into my hotmail account, which has been at its 2.0 MB maxed out for over a year. Today I opened it up and it said I was only using 1% of the space first I thought it had deleted all my e-mails, but then I looked again and I now have 250MB of space, I had 2 other people check there accounts and one of the other 2 had the same thing, they also got 250MB of space for no reason. Just wondering if this has happened too anyone else. I'm sure it’s a glitch but its the first one that’s ever worked out for me.

Devon

[JonD]

Mine is still 2 MB...

[silent_truth]

Actually, from what I've heard, hotmail is in the process of upgrading all free accounts to 250 MB. That's why my account was inaccessible the other day since they were making the changes. It's all done for me now which is nice....but I don't think I'm gonna use 250 mb worth of space.

-Adam

[Edwin]

They are upgrading every account to 250MB, due to competition from Gmail, which offers 1GB. There are also lots of smaller companies that are offering up to 5GB of free space.

[Bartman]

Yea ive got 250mb too..I wouldnt have noticed was it not for this post. Thanks! :D

[Ptindy]

Yea i noticed that too! I thought somehow they made a mistake and upgraded my account. I'm not so special am I ??? Or are we all??!?!

Mike

[ChunkyMunky]

WTF? I have no 250mb account. Still 2mb.
:(

EDIT: Oh isee JonD got the shaft too. Im about to make a new email address and see if they give it to me. JonD, ill let you know if it works.

[Cruciform]

They're doing it based on the age of accounts. So people with older accounts are getting upgraded ahead of newer accounts.

Free users will be upgraded to 250, while paid users will upgrade to 2gb.

[ChunkyMunky]

Oh i see. Thanks for clearing that up.

[JonD]

Originally posted by Cruciform
They're doing it based on the age of accounts. So people with older accounts are getting upgraded ahead of newer accounts.

Cool, wierd though, I've had my hotmail account for 8-10 years. Not sure if that is considered a long time..

Still at 2 mb....:mad:

[JonD]

Originally posted by ChunkyMunky
WTF? I have no 250mb account. Still 2mb.
:(

EDIT: Oh isee JonD got the shaft too. Im about to make a new email address and see if they give it to me. JonD, ill let you know if it works.

Yeah let me know. I'm not going to switch accounts though! Hope this happens soon though, damn account gets filled daily.
.Damn Porn emails :D

[jjaj02]

I've got 250MB and ive only had my account for like 4 years.

[justinO]

woohoo.. i'm at the 250 megs as well. so, that combined with my 1gb Gmail account.. i've got more storage then i had on my first computer!

:)

[shaggybill]

I think Yahoo offers 100 meg now, so that was more competition for Hotmail as well.

(still at 2 meg, and I've had my account for 7 years)

[CDN-Cresties]

Im still at 2mb but most of my buddies are now at 250mb.

[RepTylE]

Good!!! I was getting sick of the notices stating that I had used all my space even though there's less than 1 meg saved (which I could never figure out)

[proud2bcanadian]

I have 250MB on my older accounts, but on my newer one, I still only have 2MB...

[RepTylE]

I guess that MSN finally learned that they aren't the biggest kids on the block and actually have to compete with other email servers by offering larger accounts. All I can say is.......GOOD!

[Edwin]

My account is still 2MB, but a few of my friends have been upgraded.

[Linds]

They sent out notifications in the summer that they would be upgrading accounts. They have loads of accounts, so they will no doubt take a while to upgrade them all. The order may not have anything to do with age of accounts, but rather other details.