HAVING TWO MB of memory space in your hotmail account is not something to be proud of as you can barely receive anything using that. Yes, Hotmail became useless as a primary mail client for many users.

Many people including business people have MSN accounts since MSN or Windows Messenger is accepted widely as a communication application. Many including yours truly, never used it much for mailing unless it was the only way.

Since Gmail arrived late to the show, Ye Vole had to do something about it as the Googly people offer you nice gigabyte of storage - more than enough for most.

Vole has to beat that and will give you a full two gigabyte for your mail, pictures and whatever you want to keep there. The send and receive limit for attachment files will get up to an amazing 20 MB.

Microsoft promises that it won't bug you with graphical ads and there will be no more account expiration, you don’t have to log on every 30 days to keep the account active. It will save you from a re-activation process.

Maybe Microsoft has some more surprises for us. Let's hope so. µ