Microsoft to increase the storage limit of Windows Live Hotmail

Very soon, Microsoft will increase the storage limit of its recently upgraded Windows live hotmail from present 2GB to 5GB. This was declared in public earlier this week by Ellie on his website. By this storage upgrade, Microsoft will lead the race with Google which is offering 2.8GB of storage space. Early this week, Google has also announced paid storage of about $20 for an additional 6GB. However the paid storage service of Microsoft remains same at $15 for additional 10GB. It looks like Microsoft has surpassed Google in the race of online free storage space, both in terms of capacity and cost. Google is on its way of increasing its storage space every day, whereas Yahoo users are enjoying its un-limited free storage which Yahoo has upgraded in March this year. The storage will be rolled out to all the hotmail customers over the next few weeks. Apart from the storage up gradation, Microsoft is also concentrating on the speed issue. Speed matters for the entire web based e-mail access solutions, as you all know that we-mail will be slower when compared to the mails which we access in our office.


Also, the new Windows live Skydrive was made public as a beta preview earlier this month, with a free storage capacity of 500MB. Users can store documents as well as image files in this drive. This works same like the Gmail drive offered by Google, users can just drag and drop files in another drive displayed in windows explorer. Microsoft describes this drive as the personal hard drive on internet.


Read the complete review of the upcoming updates for live hotmail on Ellie’s Web site. Ellie Powers-Boyle is a Program manager at Microsoft for windows live hotmail project. See the complete report here

I think now it is Google's turn to show off their smartness. This is a never ending race between the two competitors.