MS Fights Gmail With 2-GB Exchange Mailboxes

prawnonthebarbie writes "Microsoft is battling the trend for frazzled office workers to give up on Outlook and auto-forward all their mail to Gmail: the company is promising 2-GB mailboxes in Exchange 2007 rather than the piffling 50-MB mailboxes most workplaces have now. Speaking at the launch of Vista, Office, and Exchange in Singapore, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Martha DeAmicis said Microsoft had built clustered replication into Exchange so corporate IT admins wouldn't be worrying about backing up big mailboxes to tape. However, its killer feature appears to be its plans to make those gigs of email available on Joe Officeworker's mobile phone."

2GB?

[nagora]

Have MS's programmers still not worked out that file size is an UNSIGNED Int?

finally!

[Speare]

Finally, there won't be any more error messages when Joe CEO sends that funny PowerPoint with the Aflack duck stealing money out of the lady's purse, the photo of the lady's car precariously "parked" between the marina and a yacht, and a movie clip copy of the FedEx caveman commercial. Isn't progress wonderful?

Re:Exchange 8GB mailboxes today

[ednopantz]

>The summary is misleading, if not wholly inaccurate.

This is slashdot.

Re:Exchange 8GB mailboxes today

[misleb]

2) My wife, who has worked at the company for a year and a half, has already racked up at LEAST 8GB in ARCHIVED e-mail.

It is a shame that people have to resort of abusing email to store/share files.

-matthew

Re:Exchange 8GB mailboxes today

[thrillseeker]

Let me guess - you used to use a flame thrower to dry the cat.

Re:Good initiative, poor judgement

[blugu64]

" Oh, and 83% of statistics are made up."

That's the '05 Number, it was 87% in '06, and projected to break 90% in '07.

Re:Exchange 8GB mailboxes today

[Anonymous Coward]

It is this kind of ignorance that give Microsoft MCSEs a bad rep. The 75GB limit increase came with SP2. How long has Exchange SP2 been out?

Re:2GB?

[kosmosik]

They did! They just keep it secret before they patent it. Otherwise some Linux guys would steal MS innovation!

"Eight-year-olds, Dude"

[7Prime]

Ya know what this reminds me of? Two eight-year-olds who don't like each other, and who automatically disagree with everything the other says, regardless of their own opinion. Remarkable how international coorporate politics resembles the mind of an 8-year-old with a bug up his ass.

Re:People actually do this?

[baldass_newbie]

Does SMTP transfer files? Yep, did it the other day. Is SMTP a protocol? I mean, it's got the P in there.

And it's got a 'T', too!
How about that!