For its 10th anniversary, Yahoo Mail is upping the ante to maintain its position as the leading free e-mail service in the world. It’s bet: infinity.
“We will begin offering everyone unlimited e-mail storage starting in May 2007,” said John Kremer, VP of Yahoo Mail, in a blog post on Tuesday.
When it launched in 1997, Yahoo Mail offered users 4 Mbytes of storage. Then came the information explosion. In 2004, storage capacity was raised to 100 Mbytes. A year later, it was 1 Gbyte.
Google’s Gmail currently offers 2.8 Gbytes of storage to its users, an amount that has been creeping upward since the service debuted with 1 Gbyte. Google watchers speculate that some sort of competitive answer to Yahoo’s announcement may come on April 1st, the third anniversary of Gmail.