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Old 03-28-2007, 09:39 PM
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Yahoo! Mail to offer unlimited Space
Yahoo will begin offering unlimited storage for its free Web-based e-mail in May, the company announced late Tuesday. The move makes Yahoo the first of the major free e-mail providers to offer unlimited storage, but it likely will not be the last.

Yahoo currently offers 1 gigabyte for its free mail service and 2GB for its premium fee-based service. Google's free Gmail service offers more than 2.5GB of storage, and Windows Live Hotmail offers 2GB for free.
"We are watching the trend lines of how people are using e-mail...and they are sending more photos and videos and rich media," said John Kremer, vice president of Yahoo Mail.

Google began the storage wars in earnest when it launched Gmail in April 2004 with 1GB of storage. Yahoo Mail, which launched in 1997 with 4MB of storage, upgraded to 100MB of storage shortly after Google's Gmail announcement, bumped it up to 250MB in late 2004, and then up to 1GB in 2005.
With 250 million users, Yahoo Mail is the largest global e-mail provider and the largest in the U.S., according to comScore.
The unlimited storage will begin rolling out globally in May, and Yahoo expects to have all of its customers covered within a month, except for China and Japan. "We will continue working with these markets on their storage plans," Kremer said.
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Old 03-29-2007, 01:06 AM
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This is very interesting. I know that Gmail has changed how I use email. I wonder how unlimited storage will effect people.

If you had unlimited email storage, what would you do differently?
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Old 03-29-2007, 09:29 AM
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Nothing. I don't see the huge effect now. Honestly, I can't see many people getting even close to the 1GB in Yahoo Mail, I can't see how people would go ape **** over unlimited storage. But that's just me :)
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Old 04-04-2007, 08:46 PM
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Google's response (I think):
BBspot - Google Responds to Yahoo by Increasing Gmail Storage to Infinity Plus One
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Old 04-06-2007, 10:31 AM
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Well it was pretty evident that most the main contenders would follow suit, even yahoo! knew this.
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Old 04-06-2007, 11:58 AM
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Not to be left out of the storage bonanza, a Hotmail representative said that while they "can't offer unlimited storage, they can delete all your e-mail at random intervals in conjunction with their Live OneCare service, to make sure you never run out of space."
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Old 04-06-2007, 12:08 PM
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how nice of microsoft to offer that function lmao!
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