Tech News: Yahoo Mail announces Unlimited Storage

As many would have heard by now, Yahoo inc, in an announcement, said that all Yahoo Mail users will have free unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. The current storage limit is 1 GB per account for the free accounts. With this move, Yahoo Mail will overtake Google Mail in the virtual war of email space likened to the cold war.

Google Mail, at the last count was offering about 2.5 gigabytes of space. Yahoo is currently the leader in terms of users, with about 250 million users worldwide.

Will this announcement make many change over? I don't think so. While a Yahoo Mail Account will be added into the service list of many people, I don't think it will appeal to users using POP mail interface as currently, Yahoo Free Users do not have this option.. This is unlike Google Mail which provides Email forwarding and POP access.

However, for Yahoo Singapore Users, the situation may be different as we do get POP mail functions. So the question will be now related to other value-added services like mail attachment size.

Furthermore, as an afterthought, it is wondered if a tool like Gmail Space will arise to allow users to make full use of the unlimited storage. I for one will be looking out for it...

It is now time to wait and see how will Google and Microsoft react to this.