MSN Hotmail hits 1GB storage limit
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Microsoft Corp on Wednesday announced a global storage upgrade for MSN Hotmail accounts by increasing the storage limit from 250 MB to 1 GB. Also extended was the expiration period for inactive accounts from 30 days to 60 days for accounts that are more than two years old.
Gmail
The first major player to move into the 1 GB storage limit league was Google's Gmail (in April 2004), and then raised it to 2 GB in April 2005. Yahoo! initially extended its email storage to 100 MB and then to 1 GB. Rediff extended its storage to 1 GB as well. Earlier, Hotmail had increased its storage limit to 25 MB and then to 250 MB.
There was much noise made about Gmail's 1 GB offering when it debuted, but the idea of `lots of space' really took hold when Gmail upgraded storage to 2 GB. That limit is still counting. This is when general Web and email users started thinking about what to do with all that space and the moment they found something they wanted to save or back-up, they would simply send it to their email account.
