Microsoft and Google lock horns in email storage battle

MICROSOFT ANNOUNCED a cunning plan to increase the storage limit on its Hotmail accounts from 2GB to 5GB. The move comes shortly after Google began offering extra storage on its Gmail accounts, at a price.

Google currently offers 2888MB of storage space for free. The figure on a Gmail account used to be constantly increasing and Google encouraged users never to delete email. This daft idea was soon trashed and the company took the, um, radical step of adding a delete button.

Now, it's begun charging for extra storage and some sad fools have shelled out for the peace of mind forking out cash can bring.

Will Fernando now be wooed by Hotmail? We he demand his Google money back? Has he been outsmarted by the Vole?

No doubt all will be revealed.

On a related note, Google, as far as we are aware, doesn't delete all your mails if you don't log on to the site for a couple of weeks. Microsoft does. And Google's spam filters, in our expericence, are a lot better than Microsoft's.

Obviously, we can't wait to seen what happens next. µ