According to LiveSide Microsoft has plans to offer 4 gigabytes of storage for $19.99.

The Windows Live Mail Plus is currently only available in Holland.

While I'm not ready to pay 20 bucks a year for 4 gigabytes storage for my mail the list of features appears to be more attractive:

• 4GB inboxes from Spring 2007
• Attachments upto 20MB
• No advertisements (across several Windows Live services, including Mail, Mail desktop and Spaces)
• Microsoft Outlook access
• No disabling of your account due to inactivity
• Yearly cost remains at €19.99, expected £14.99 and $19.99 when launched in other regions

Still not sure whether it's worth $19.99 every year. I'll stick to Gmail for now. Plus I'm testing Windows Live Mail, which actually works okay, apart from some stability issues…

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Tags: E-mail, Microsoft, Windows-Live

E-mail, Microsoft Comments 0 Dec 29th, 2006

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