Nice little trick for MSN Explorer
 

ok, if you use MSN Explorer to sign up for an @msn.com email address they give you 2GB worth of space. THIS IS NOT A JOKE. Try it and see what you think.

Re: Nice little trick for MSN Explorer
 

Yeah, but the question is wether this is an intentional move or a bug in the roll out.

I suspect the latter - otherwise a lot of paying users of the premium service will be pretty peveed.

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iirc , microsoft are doing this to try and counter thpresumed effect of g-mail ;)

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Yeah, but they are giving non-paying users 250Mb and paying users 2BG IIRC.

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I signed up for a free account using MSN Explorer and got 2000mb storage space showing as available!

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same here :erm:

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hmm do I want to install MSN Explorer ?

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Not saying that i wont give you that - im saying that you might not have it for long.

Could be wrong - but...

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I only used it because I'm doing a reinstall of Windows 2000 on the spare machine tomorrow so it wasn't too much fuss for me.

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Not too much of a fuss for me as I doubt I'll ever use 2GB but I can make the most of it while I have it!

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it was on my xp pro machine anyway....

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oh so it is lol.....mine says 2gb too but what even more funnier is that it says "More Storage Coming Soon!" below it :D

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I have MSN Explorer on here, but where do you sign up?

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phew - I'm glad someone else is :confused:

I run windows98se, still :dozey: - a google on 'msn explorer' comes up with plenty of links - all of which lead back to the £15 a month 'enhanced' package.

That will be upgraded to 2GB storage 'soon'.

my 'normal' hotmail account still shows 2MB free - and says more will be added 'soon', too. :)

Re: Nice little trick for MSN Explorer
 

I really can't see the point of going for MSN/Hotmail when you can have a GMail account whenever you want it.

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GMail is excellent and has won me over totally. Though it's still not public, and hardly any invitaions go out now.

Google managed something incredible. They managed to create an email product that EVERYBODY suddenly wanted. They even got people to advertise the service in sigs etc with those GMail sig images, which GMail didn't even create. It was done for them by fans of the service.

Amazing. I want some of what they drink!

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They created an air of "exclusivity" by making it invitation only, just like Orkut. :)

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the large file space give away will soon die off again as people start usein it to swap stuff on again as it did in the past its a ploy to get the file swappers again and what an easy catch eh

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Not quite everybody, the service really doesn't appeal to me in any way.

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Here's why you got 2GB : http://news.softpedia.com/news/2/2004/July/9051.shtml

Looks like it'll go back to 2MB before too long