MSN's Hotmail Now Offers 5 Gigs Of Storage
Just last week I noticed my Hotmail account had undergone a complete makeover. Not only does Hotmail now offer 5 Gigs of email space but the interface itself seems less arduous to use than its biggest rival, GMail.
I have had my Hotmail account for about thirteen years now and just can't let it go for some reason. I think it may be because it's one of those comfort zones I just can't let go nor want to get out of for whatever reason. And with the new facelift, it has solidified my resolve to continue to use it for a looooong time to come.
Some of the new features are VERY Google-esque. A good example of this would be MSN's Calendar which like Google, allows you to jot down your to-do list for whatever it is ya got planned. Also similar to Google's GMail, you can search your emails and/or Live.com with MSN's own search technology via the hotmail interface.
There's a ton of other new features with Hotmail but I just don't have the time to list them all here.
I see solid progress for Microsoft with their Hotmail relaunch, but still see room for improvement, and of course, room for intrusion. Like GMail, I anticipate seeing content-matched ads appearing in Hotmail emails sometime soon.