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"Free Hotmail Account Upgrade (took 8 years of loyalty)"

Has anyone else received this kind of email before? Or perhaps 8 years ago you were still in Primary School and unlikely to have email.

10 days ago I received an email with the above subject title. At first I thought something was up, it looked like an official Hotmail email but there was no Hotmail icon for it in the inbox and the address it was sent from seemed rather odd and unofficial.

It said;

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Dear MSN® Hotmail® Member:

As a valued MSN Hotmail Member, you will receive your storage upgrade automatically in the coming days. Over the month of August we will upgrade the storage capacity of your e-mail account to 250 MB - that's 125 times your current storage limit! We will also increase your attachment size from 1MB to 10MB. This means you will be able to store and attach more than ever and it's free!
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So I waited and just noticed a few minutes ago that my account has indeed been upgraded to 250MB and I just sent a 6MB file to a friend of mine.

Not sure why they gave me this as I just asked a few people and they are still stuck on 2MB. I have had the email account since 1996 8 years ago so I guess that's as good a reason to give me some sort of a reward. They do have a Hotmail Plus thing costing £14.99 but then that makes my new upgrade look pathetic as you get 2GB space 20MB email size and many other nice features.

So yeah I'm happy, it's free and now I dont have to worry abount deleting 150 junk emails that manage to find their way into my inbox over the course of a few days. That and being able to send large files such as photos, I've been taking lots of new photos lately hopefully I'll get a chance to show them on SR.

i had that a while ago.. however i deleted it.. kinda wish hadnt now..

gamesfreak wrote:
> Gmail is funded by advertising.
>
> I.e: E-mails you send to people will be read by some g-mail bot thing
> for its content, and shove adverts into it relating to the content of
> it.

Well if its relating to the email surely it cant be that bad? Can it? Or can it?

Gmail is funded by advertising.

I.e: E-mails you send to people will be read by some g-mail bot thing for its content, and shove adverts into it relating to the content of it.

poke wrote:
> Hmm that's what I though, Ooo G-mail looks interesting, though I
> havent seen anyone mention/using it yet.

They just did a trial run with a few people a while back, that's why - it's not in operation yet.

Does this mean they should hopefully be upgrading everyones account i mean i have had my account for about nearly 5 years now.

Hmm that's what I though, Ooo G-mail looks interesting, though I havent seen anyone mention/using it yet. 1GB of storage thats excellent. Especially from using 2MB you could easily fill that in a couple of days. I suppose they're using me and other as tests before improving everyones account so then I dont feel so special anymore. I think people who had extra storage accounts have now been upgraded to Hotmail Plus accounts which seem a lot better than G-mail.

Still I'm happy and hopefully this is a sign of Hotmail improving their services to match competition for everyone and not just those who have been around since Microsoft bought it.

Paradox: wrote:
> Sweet.
>
> They're trying to compete with the forthcoming G-mail.

Gmail? Whats that. You see this is why competition is better. Shows that the customer benefits.

Mines still 2mb,

I guess they're going through all the accounts with the oldest first and such.

Sweet.

They're trying to compete with the forthcoming G-mail.