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June 23, 2004 at 10:20 pm #3276
detn8r
ParticipantHotmail will announce plans to offer more space to customers. In a bid to rival Google’s upcoming Gmail, MSN plan to give free customers as much as 250MB of email space. MSN will also announce a plan to have a “plus” paid version of Hotmail for $19.95 a year which will include 2GB of email space.
Free Hotmail Service:
250MB storage + 10MB attachment limit
30 day expiry if no activity
Antivirus scan & cleanHotmail Plus Service:
Annual fee (price varies per country) expected to be $19.99
2GB of storage + 20MB attachment limit
No expire date
No uneeded graphics or ads
Access to pop3 settings
Antivirus scan & cleanMSN Premium subscribers are expected to get the same as the Hotmail Plus Service subscribers.
Controversial screenshot
Source: Neowin.netJune 23, 2004 at 10:47 pm #43112f0rbez
Memberlast I heard, it was going to only be 20 or 30 mb I cant remember. good news but ill probably stick with my yahoo and gmail accounts.
June 23, 2004 at 10:52 pm #43101detn8r
ParticipantIn deed. The email screen shot definitely looks bad. Last time I checked MSN at least used a spell checker 😉
Nevertheless, creamhackered, a trustworthy Neowin moderator backed up the statement as true, so I guess time will tell.
June 23, 2004 at 11:40 pm #43105shifter
ParticipantThat email looks very fake. None Disclosure? That doesn’t even make sense. And who recieved this email and why? I wouldn’t trust it to be too accurate, but you never know.
June 23, 2004 at 11:46 pm #43115AwesomeSauce
ParticipantShifter’s probably right. And what does “None disclosure” mean?
But even if it IS true….I can’t wait that long.
June 24, 2004 at 1:06 am #43102Charles
MemberThis seems extremely fake.
First off, many can see the none disclosure. Any professional company wouldn’t even release an internal mail with that sorta typo 7 times. The next unprofessional sign is how MB and GB are not abbreviated and instead called megs and gigs.
Late summer to fall? That is a broader amount of time than a company would like to say. If this were true, the company would likely have a date in mind.
Typo errors such as ‘until’ in the second sentence. “We expect to see lots of calls of customers wanting to know when..” The point there is I haven’t heard “calls of customers.” You think it would be calls from customers.
The title is Microsoft-ish. Though the wording in parenthesis has the words space and customer capitalized– small mistakes, but unprofessional.
Toward the bottom, Pop3…POP is an abbreviation for Post-Office Protocol. The company would have that capitalized. Anyway, Microsoft never brings up POP access, it is always access through Outlook Express or Outlook.
This all just leads me to believe that this is just crap. I’ll check for the KB articles mentioned. Though, Microsoft usually calls them Knowledge Base articles when they would release something like this… it is just fishy.
June 24, 2004 at 1:38 am #43110Hurricane22491
MemberAll the emails that I’ve ever got from MSN looked nothing like that. Microsoft is a big company. They would not send an email like that.
June 24, 2004 at 6:05 am #43113f0rbez
Memberhaha yeah when I saw that screen shot I knew it was a fake. no email from microsoft, even a very internal one would look like that. also notice how the “From” line is gone. that could be to hide some kind of employee email address but I think in this case its just to hide someones very obvious, unofficial email account name. I know creamhackered has a reputation for bringing alot of credible information but I really dont think this is. my apologies to him if it is but where is this alleged press release they were going to make tonight?
June 24, 2004 at 7:07 am #43106shifter
ParticipantApparently whoever writes the MSN Staff emails needs to re-do the 6th Grade.
Let this be a lesson, never doubt the creamhackered. [:P]
June 24, 2004 at 7:45 am #43114f0rbez
Memberits a fake! they hacked the site and put it there. no jk but that definately was horribly written. glad to see them making a leap up from the 2 mb limit.
June 24, 2004 at 10:53 pm #43104Someguy03
MemberWhat is wrong with the page? I don’t get it.
But this better not be a rip like Yahoo!, where I am a paid customer and only the main account (the parents one) gets the 2GB of mail, and sub accounts are stuck with the 250 MB.
June 24, 2004 at 11:23 pm #43103Charles
MemberI am sure it is similar. Where as, the master account on MSN gets the gigs of storage while the sub-accounts get 250 Mb. That wouldn’t surprise me at all. I believe that is how it is done currently: Master gets 10 Mb, all sub-accounts get 2 or 3. We will just have to wait and see.
June 25, 2004 at 7:30 am #43108Evan
Memberwow abotu time. thought I dont think I would use it now I using incredimail with hotmail so pretty much have 100gb of room hehe
June 25, 2004 at 4:54 pm #43116AwesomeSauce
ParticipantThe only thing I’m looking forward to is that you can send attatchments up to 10 megabytes! Now I can actually send a whole song or two… 😀
June 25, 2004 at 10:11 pm #43109Evan
MemberQuote:quote:Originally posted by AwesomeSauceThe only thing I’m looking forward to is that you can send attatchments up to 10 megabytes! Now I can actually send a whole song or two… 😀
yes good idea now I can send are band mp3s to are gutiarist when we record
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