Travel Technology - Hotmail to offer 2 GB for extra storage subscribers

Just got this email:
Your MSN® Hotmail Extra Storage account is being upgraded to MSN Hotmail Plus

As a valued MSN Hotmail Extra Storage subscriber, we will be upgrading your storage capacity to a massive 2GB with 20MB attachment size at no extra cost to you*!

These changes will be happening this summer as we upgrade you to our improved service, MSN Hotmail Plus. MSN Hotmail Plus will not only give you greater space for photos, music, movie clips but a more streamlined web e-mail experience with no graphical advertisements.

And poor MSN premium subscribers are being left out (though I find the 20 megabytes quite adequate with regular archiving). Still, as Google's mail product is proving to me at the moment, size certainly does matter but what you do with it is far more important :D

So while Micrsoft, Yahoo and so on play the gigabyte game, Google has actually produced a user interface that makes this kind of mail storage very usable. I hope for their sake they've got some good patents out of this.