Yahoo! Mail - Unlimited email storage

As Yahoo! Mail approaches its 10-year anniversary, it announced that we will begin offering everyone unlimited email storage starting in May 2007.

The current Yahoo! Mail storage limit is 1 GB per account (2 GB for $20/year premium users), but Microsoft Corp. provide 2 gigabytes and Goolge 2.8 gigabytes of free storage.

"I remember getting in a room to plan our RocketMail launch over a decade ago and worrying that our original plan of a 2MB quota wasn't enough, and that we needed to be radical and DOUBLE the storage to 4MB per account! It's ironic that I routinely send and receive individual mail attachments bigger than that now. Our total capacity for mail accounts back then was 200GB for all of our customers. At Yahoo!, we're now receiving more inbound mail than that every 10 minutes." told David Nakayama, Yahoo! vice president of engineering.

Techcrunch reports: "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."

Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, the fourth largest e-mail provider, began offering unlimited storage for free last summer.

"Storage has not been a major issue or pain point for customers for years now," Microsoft said Wednesday in a statement. According to Google spokeswoman Courtney Hohne, Google Mail has no plans to change the current formula that is about adding 145MB per e-mail annualy.

"We hope we"re setting a precedent for the future. Someday, can you imagine a hard drive that you can never fill? Never having to empty your photo card on your camera to get space back? Enough storage to fit the world's music, and then some, on your iPod? Sounds like a future without limits." - Reports John Kremer Vice President of Yahoo! Mail

Source: Yahoo!

Yahoo! Mail - Unlimited email storage

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