Hotmail Begins to Upgrade Free Accounts 380
Myrmi writes "It looks as if Hotmail have started to upgrade free Hotmail accounts to 250Mb of space as promised. The account the screenshot is from is an old account - created August 1999 - so I guess they're upgrading the accounts in chronological order. Hopefully they'll get round to newer ones soon."
My Biggest Problem (Score:5, Insightful)
Frames (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Well it is not all about space (Score:3, Insightful)
Slow working
Large Advertisements
No keyboard shortcuts
and so on
Bottom line: switch to GMAIL (read as get gmail invitation)
Re:Frames (Score:3, Insightful)
YES! Mod parent up! I can't tell you how many times I've had to take a long and circuitous route to get back to a directly linked page that, for example, requires cookies, 'cos it seems as if those framed pages of Hotmail's screw up cookie usage. (Or, maybe, data sent through the URL, or some other kinds of non-basic transactions, I dunno, . . .) One example, since I may not be describing it right: I have a 'wish list' of used CDs on file at Djangos.com. Djangos sends me an email when one arrives in stock, and I hit the link to buy it. When I get around to viewing my shopping cart and trying to pay, if I'm still in that *&$#^%$damn Hotmail-framed window, the transaction will fail every time. Highly annoying.
But, anyway, to get back a little closer to the topic at hand - my oldest Hotmail account (from way before MS bought 'em) got upgraded to 250MB in early August.
Re:My Biggest Problem (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:My Biggest Problem (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Im glad for one (Score:2, Insightful)
also it uses javascript links which mean u cant right click and select open in new tab/window. so u cant let each email load in the a seperate tab while ur reading one of them.
old hotmail interface was much better.
But why hotmail or even spymac? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Im glad for one (Score:4, Insightful)
My quirks with Hotmail are others; namely, how it has become downhill since purchased by Microsoft (just compare the old interface) and it being a spam magnet like no other.
Re:My Biggest Problem (Score:3, Insightful)
Fair call - why not report it as a bug? I've reported a few things that since got fixed or at least added to the to-do list, so they really do listen ;p
Re:Well it is not all about space (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:My Biggest Problem (Score:4, Insightful)
So what that the service isn't as fast as it could be all the time? It's still in beta! In fact, if you speak to any of the development team, as I have done personally, they'll tell you that it isn't technically in beta now (I forget the exact term the Gmail developer used to describe the current state of the service), so it's not entirely surprising that it doesn't work as fast as lightning right now 100 percent of the time.
Believe me, there's still a lot more of work to be done before Gmail is ready for public launch, including support for browsers that aren't currently supported (eg, Opera) and drafting to name but two. Expecting the code to be optimised for speed before the final feature set is tied down is asking a bit much, don't you think?
Besides, isn't it standard practice to cut pre-release software some slack? I've lost track of the number of times I've seen someone justify the presence of bugs in FireFox or any other OSS product as being natural because "it's still in beta", so why not give Google the same breaks too?
Re:My Biggest Problem (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:My Biggest Problem (Score:3, Insightful)
That's a very nice idea. I think I'll go and do that myself.
I would also like a way to strip email of their attachments. There are many cases in which I want to store the email itself for historical and documentation reasons, since it may contain important information, but the attachments are (almost) always copied to my hard disk first. So I don't really need them clogging up my Gmail.
I've reported it already as a suggestion. I'd also love to see a "sort" button and a "size" column, ala Hotmail. If this thing ever goes public, they will have to implement it!
hotmail-gmail forwarding (Score:1, Insightful)
I also uploaded all the mail I had received from the very beginning... The bad thing is, the emails' date in the gmail list will be the date you sent the mail to gmail, not the mail's date (however when you open the mail you'll see the right date).
However you can set up cron to run gotmail every 5 minutes or so, so that the date difference isn't that much.
Just my 0.05cents..