Just out on neowin…

Hotmail will announce plans to offer more space to customers. In a bid to rival Google’s upcoming Gmail, MSN plan to give free customers as much as 250meg of email space. MSN will also announce a plan to have a “plus” paid version of Hotmail for $19.95 a year which will include 2gig of email space.

Free Hotmail Service:

250meg storage + 10meg attachment limit
30 day expiry if no activity
Antivirus scan & clean

Hotmail Plus Service:
Annual fee (prize varies per country) expected to be $19.99
2gig of storage + 20meg attachment limit
No expire date
No uneeded graphics or ads
Access to pop3 settings
Antivirus scan & clean

MSN Premium subscribers are expected to get the same as the Hotmail Plus Service subscribers.

Source: Neowin