Too Little Too Late


I just got the following e-mail from hotmail:



Dear MSN® Hotmail® Member:

As a valued MSN Hotmail Member, we want you to know that there are some exciting changes coming soon to your account that will help you do more, receive more and store more than ever before. And it's FREE.

That's not all. We're rolling out email antivirus protection as well as enhanced storage to help meet your growing needs. This will make MSN Hotmail, a world class email service that both scans and cleans ingoing and outgoing email for viruses and worms before they enter your inbox.

In addition to delivering world-class antivirus protection, you can also look forward to an upgrade in your storage capacity. In fact, you'll receive 125 times your current email storage with the introduction of a 250 MB inbox as well as the ability to send attachments up to 10 MB.


We'd like to thank you for being a valued MSN Hotmail Member and look forward to telling you about more exciting changes to your Hotmail account in the coming months.

We will send an update on when and how these exciting changes will be made to your account within two weeks. Please check your email for this important update.

Thank you, and enjoy the good news.

MSN Hotmail Member Services




Although I welcome these changes, I still think that it's too little too late from the hotmail people, they're obviously as frightened as yahoo about the obvious threat that gmail is creating. As far as I'm concerned it is too little too late though, I've got my gmail and I'm slowly making the transistion to that, I'll still keep my hotmail but mostly for MSN and nostalgic purposes. But it is somewhat nice to see that they're responding to the competition and realizing that 2MB isn't cutting it in this day and age!