Microsoft Fights Back - On MSN Email Storage

"Although spam volume fluctuates daily, measurements
show a combination of Microsoft technologies and solutions
typically block nearly 3 billion pieces of spam a day
from reaching customers' inboxes"

This is from a statement from MSN, provider of hotmail.com.

Peronally, I got my first email address from hotmail.com.
I still remember that was when I was a sophomore in
college trying to ride the internet train. No spam
at all at that time. That was the golden times even
though one webpage take about 1 minute to load in
the fast pentium machine offered in my library, thanks
to OCLC service.

Anyway, not hotmail has become less attactive. Then Microsoft
fights back by increasing the storage to 250 MB and increase
the attachement size limit to 10MB (same as gmail offers,
so I guess gmail should do better than that). I guess
MS's next move is to add search function to its email
service as well. Also, don't know if hotmail is running
on MS boxes yet, since they used to be run on freebsd as
what I heard.