The Hotmail 250MB 2MB saga continues

We tried to find some kind of pattern in the Microsoft upgrade scheme and we found some kind of logic in in operation.

I opened a new Hotmail account just for this article and was surprised that I received only 2MB of storage with it. I used USA regional settings. Many of our readers reported that when they opened their new account they got 250MB straight away.

Many of you said that their older accounts were upgraded to 250MB earlier and that some of acquaintances more recent accounts remain at 2MB. Some people who have more than one Hotmail account said the same. Older accounts get updated first while the most recent are still at 2MB.

It would be a happy end story if I don't have account from 97 and still have 2 MB's while many people that have accounts created just a year or two ago received their 250 MBs already. But most of our readers from USA, Canada and Australia got 250 MB accounts.

I mailed and called my friends and most people in Austria, Bosnia and UK haven't had their upgrade. The only way Vole can actually know about your location is through your regional settings in your Hotmail account. Well we hope that's the only way. You are obliged to fill that field when you are setting up your new Hotmail account. That eliminates an alphabetical regional settings upgrade rule as Austria and Bosnia and Herzegovina should come before Canada.

Some poor guys got their 250MB accounts and Microsoft took it away from them and downgraded them to 2MB without any explanation.

The bottom line appears to be that if you haven't got your 250MB already, Microsoft will surprise you one day sooner or later and will give you the extra but when, no one appears to be able to say.

Here, for what it's worth, is the Hotmail help link µ