One and a half months, after Yahoo! first announced that it was going to give unlimited space to all Yahoo! mail users, it has finally started rolling out the change to all accounts. Yahoo! made the announcement today on its blog.
As promised, we’ve started to roll out unlimited email storage to Yahoo! Mail users worldwide today. When it hits your account, you’ll notice the storage meter has disappeared — meaning, you just don’t have to worry about deleting old messages ever again!
Unlimited storage space coupled with the new Yahoo! Mail Beta interface seems to be Yahoo!’s attempt at retaining existing users and also attract new ones. Yahoo! mail definitely seems to be feeling the Gmail heat. Gmail with 2+ GB space and a cool new interface weaned away a lot of Yahoo! mail users.
But still, Yahoo! offers a measly 10 MB attachment limit. So if you want to store that large file you need to split into 10 MB files. As for Gmail, I think its time to get rid of that ticking space counter on the login page.
3 comments
Nirmal says:
May 17, 2007
Its a good thing that Yahoo mail is unlimited, but you cant use this to store any photo or songs or videos unlike Rediff which had announced unlimited storage long back.
BTW nice blog. Do visit mine, we do have one similarity.
fo.unta.in says:
May 17, 2007
It doesnt matter, Yahoo is old school. their new interface also is bad.
the question is, gmail definitely did not change the rules of the game. it was not a killer product, it was a better product.
who is making the killer email product? zimbra?
Manas says:
May 17, 2007
Hi Nirmal and fo.unta.in !
Yeah Nirmal, we have one similarity the same theme..
As for Yahoo! mail, never write Yahoo! off.