hotmail - why still 2mb?

[webnote]

i have been waiting for months now and my email size at hotmail is still 2mb.

this is maddening!!!

[Killer]

Originally posted by webnote
i have been waiting for months now and my email size at hotmail is still 2mb.

this is maddening!!!

Months? You are not alone. But on Hotmail's home page they said you have to wait 30days for the account to upgrade.

[webnote]

dear hotmail,

if u ever read this thread, do indicate that within 6 months or a year (wait forever? nah, not possible) u would upgrade user's email size to 250mb.

tks.

[Killer]

Originally posted by webnote
dear hotmail,

if u ever read this thread, do indicate that within 6 months or a year (wait forever? nah, not possible) u would upgrade user's email size to 250mb.

tks.

They do indicate. However it still up to them to see who qualifies for the upgrade.

http://www.emaildiscussions.com/...threadid=31485

[xmailer]

Originally posted by webnote
i have been waiting for months now and my email size at hotmail is still 2mb.

this is maddening!!!

So why not just forget about hotmail and use yahoo instead? Since I can't think of a single thing you can do with a hotmail account that you can't do as well or better with yahoo, this is just one of many ways in which the latter is superior - vastly superior, IMO.

[xbot]

Originally posted by xmailer
So why not just forget about hotmail and use yahoo instead? Since I can't think of a single thing you can do with a hotmail account that you can't do as well or better with yahoo, this is just one of many ways in which the latter is superior - vastly superior, IMO.

But still crappy. Both of them are in their own ways.

One thing makes Hotmail different though---HTTP access. Which is only availiable to premium users.

Other than that, Yahoo as the other features. But the same amount of falsely marked spam/falsely unmarked spam/hordes of spam you never asked for.

[CyberSmurf]

from the Hotmail webpage

*250MB inbox available only in the 50 United States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

webnote, it looks like you don't qualify because you are in Singapore.

[webnote]

Originally posted by webnote

this is maddening!!!

it's all about Faith.

they are a big organisation.

increasing email size for everyone is not something tat they are lacking of resources to do so. juz feel tat they r kind of disorganise comparing to other reputable email providers as in yahoo, lycos.co.uk, netscape, etc.

juz can't figure out y can't they resolve it quickly enuf hence it's maddening really to think of their 'ordeal'.

[CyberSmurf]

Yahoo & Lycos are different in each country.

[xmailer]

Originally posted by xbot
One thing makes Hotmail different though---HTTP access. Which is only availiable to premium users.

Exactly. I was comparing only their free services, since I asumed that's what webnote was talking about with only a 2MB mailbox. If we're talking about the paid versions, of course the paid yahoo.com has POP3, giving hotmail's HTTP access no advantage AFAIK.

And of course I didn't say yahoo was "good", just that it's vastly superior (IMO) to hotmail. But then, it doesn't take much to be vastly superior to hotmail.

[webnote]

Originally posted by CyberSmurf
from the Hotmail webpagewebnote, it looks like you don't qualify because you are in Singapore.

Australian already enjoying 250mb now.

already change country to Australia since Oct'04.

i hv faith in them still.
one day (reckon within 6 mths to a year) they will upgrade mine to 250mb.

it should not misled its email users though on its 30days promise.

cheers.

[Killer]

Originally posted by CyberSmurf
from the Hotmail webpagewebnote, it looks like you don't qualify because you are in Singapore.

Not true. my account got upgraded.

[xmailer]

Originally posted by webnote
it should not misled its email users though on its 30days promise.

Please allow at least 30 days for activation of your 250MB storage to verify your e-mail account and help prevent abuse.

Microsoft never "misleads". They just put the details in very fine print.

[webnote]

so i see .... how very enterprising indeed!

[Killer]

I have the impression MS is always as being ssloww in most of their promises....