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Microsoft has boosted the size of inboxes for Windows Live Hotmail users, offering a standard 5GB of storage and 10GB for paid MSN Premium and Hotmail Plus accounts.
Microsoft has announced an overhaul of its Windows Live products, Hotmail and MSN Messenger, which the new products being available from February 2009.
Microsoft has followed through with its long-awaited plan of increasing Hotmail users' storage capacity to 250MB.
Google has quietly added a feature to its free e-mail service that lets people import their address book contacts from rivals Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online.
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In an interview, Windows Live exec Chris Jones talks about what the 2-year-old is up to and comments on another youngster -- Apple's iPhone.
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