Yahoo! Mail Users get Unlimited eMail Storage

Suprised!! Yahoo announced that they are giving users of its web based email service unlimited storage capacity as a tribute to Yahoo Mail's 10th birthday and today's data rich Internet lifestyle.

In a phased roll-out beginning in May, Yahoo will eliminate the 1GB cap on memory for people with free email accounts and 2GB cap of memory for those who pay for premium accounts.

Yahoo! are viewing this as a gift to their users worldwide in recognition of what they have done for them, and in recognition of what they are doing now on the Internet. Yahoo Mail is the most popular web-based e-mail service and had more than 250 million users as of January 2007.

The elimination of the storage cap comes at a time when costs of computer storage are declining and in the face of a relentless trend for people to exchange video, music and other data-laden digital files online.

With the fact that attachment is getting bigger & bigger, even the current 1GB runs out really fast. Yahoo said its "e-mail server farms" around the globe were equipped to handle the storage load and the company will invest in improved capacity where necessary.

Why you may think?? Yahoo Mail is so important to Yahoo as a company that they are willing to make that investment. This is to show that Yahoo are listening to their customers' needs. Really?? Could it be also due to the strong growth of Googles worldwide that Yahoo felt threaten...