Yahoo Mail Announces Unlimited Storage - once again GMAIl or Y!MAIL ??
By yzone_asginc
@yzone_asginc (160)
India
March 28, 2007 6:01am CST
Yahoo is announcing that all Yahoo Mail users will have free unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. The current storage limit is 1 GB per account (2 GB for $20/year premium users). With this change, Yahoo leapfrogs Gmail (2.8 GB and growing) and Live.com Mail (2GB). Yahoo mail currently has 250 million global users, more than any other online service (Live.com has 228 million and Gmail has 51 million users)
Users are subject to Yahoo’s abuse policies, which requires users to follow “normal email practices” and not engage in activities like using Yahoo mail for basic online storage (a number of services have popped up to help people use Gmail for this purpose). Abusive accounts will not be summarily deleted - users will be notified by Yahoo and/or accounts suspended, but users will still have access to the data.
John Kremer (Yahoo’s Vice President of Mail) says they want their customers to be satisfied and happy with the new unlimited storage feature. Users who have paid $20 to upgrade to a premium account to get 2 GB of storage will be able to get a refund if they request one.
Interesting historical information: Yahoo mail will be ten years old soon. When it launched in 1997 it included a whopping 4 MB of total storage. This was increased to 100 MB in 2004, and 1 GB in 2005.
Is Yahoo Mail now the best webmail product? Not in my opinion, even with this announcement. It has the best and fastest user interface (although many users prefer Gmail), but does not support IMAP, and POP access and forwarding are premium features (Gmail offers POP access and forwarding for free). Gmail also allows tagging of emails, a feature I find extremely useful for organizing archived mail. Still, the Yahoo Mail team seems up for a fight, and their massive lead over Gmail isn’t going anywhere soon. My bet is that more features are coming soon.
So GMAIL or YMAIL ???
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3 responses
@pitstop (13806)
• Australia
28 Mar 07
Space is just one of the features I look at in an email provider.
Gmail is more convenient and has cool features.
I use yahoo more however as it was my first email id and hence I still get a lot of mail there.
For sending and receiving attachments I prefer gmail.
@yzone_asginc (160)
• India
29 Mar 07
Yeah ! Smae here i like GMAIl more over Y!MAIL but since my email ID is with Y!MAIL i had to use it whether I like it or not, but I like the looks of yahoo more than that of GMAIL !!
What du u say ???
@amitavroy (4819)
• India
28 Mar 07
well Yahoo can try a lot of things and increase a lot of space to get popularity but let me tell you one thing I personally feel they can never beat the mail technology of Gogol. They are by far the best e-mail providing service available and that is because not only do they give you a lot of pace to store your e-mails but also you'll have an option to conflict and it to your Outlook express or Microsoft Outlook which gives you an auction to download all your e-mails to your computer and watches them later on when you are offline or whatever. Apart from that you can use the special functions that are being given to you in Outlook express and Microsoft Outlook and these are the facilities which one cannot enjoy with Yahoo! e-mail account.
