Misc Hotmail Musings

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm extremely happy to see Microsoft try to cut down the spamming from Hotmail accounts by charging for WebDAV access. BUT, what they really need to do is eliminate the armies of Windows zombies that are the source of a large portion of the spam these days. Wishful thinking I'd guess. The article also contained another interesting comment though. Seems MSFT underestimated the amount of storage that users would actually use when they bumped the free service to 250M. They underestimated by so much in fact that they are currently bringing more storage online and have delayed the complete upgrade rollout by a full quarter. Makes me wonder just how much space Gmail is chewing through (granted they probably don't have near the 187 Million accounts that Hotmail does).
–jeremy