Craig Atkinson

I’ve been getting a lot of e-mail. Tonnes of it really. Since I went to using Google’s GMail last summer as my primary e-mail service, their gigabyte of e-mail has been steadily rising until last week I had filled 15% or about 150 MBs of e-mail since mid-summer. It was a minor concern to me because at this pace in another year or so, my GMail account would be full and since it isn’t easy to delete messages from it, effectively useless.

Thankfully, Google seems to have read my mind and has already increased storage and seems to have a plan to keep doing increasing as they can.

“A Google approach to math.
On the eve of Gmail’s one-year birthday, our engineers were toiling away furiously. Notes scribbled all over the walls. Complex calculations on napkins and empty pizza boxes. Millions of M&Ms.

The result?… starting today, we’re beginning the roll-out of our new and top secret Infinity+1 storage plan. The key features are:

Write, don’t worry.
You want to stop caring about storage. We want to keep giving you more. Today, and beyond.

The gift that keeps on giving.
1455.674250 megabytes of storage (and counting) for every user.

No complicated equations. No tough algorithms.
Just this one graph: ”

Now if only Microsoft and their MSN Messenger team would get their act together and realize they could allow users to add as many contacts as they want to their service if they would just think outside their own box.