Storage updates from Gmail and Hotmail
August 15th, 2007 by Randy Stewart, Product ManagerLike being too rich or too thin, in the world of email, you can never have “enough” storage. Or so our pals at Google and Hotmail are telling us.
Coming on the heels of Yahoo’s unlimited storage announcement, these announcements seem sort of silly. However, no one really seems to know what “unlimited” really means. I’m sure that users of Hotmail and Gmail will be happy with these upgrades.
Google Storage
Google is now offering paid upgrades for both Gmail and Picasa.
- 6 GB for $20 a year
- 25 GB for $75.00 a year
- 100 GB for $250 a year
- 250 GB for $500 a year
While on the pricey side, if you are a user of these services (especially Picasa) having storage like this is certainly worthwhile.
While I’m an avid Flickr user, having a backed up version of my photos online is invaluable.
Hotmail Upgrades
Hotmail has joined the free upgrade party by offering 5 GB of storage for free on their service, bringing them into the number two spot for overall free storage space.
Hotmail has been evolving as it is rolled into the Microsoft’s Windows Live initiative. With lots of new features (which we’ve talked about in the past) and new storage capacity, Hotmail is looking better and better.