Only a few months after starting this, both of us had consumed more than half of Gmail's 2-gigabyte free storage space. Okay, I'm extremely suspicious of anyon

Only a few months after starting this, both of us had consumed more than half of Gmail's 2-gigabyte free storage space. Okay, I'm extremely suspicious of anyone who claims to process one gigabyte of email per month. Barring large attachments, that is a tremendous amount of sheer data. If you're getting that much email, you probably need culling tools more than you need space. Regarding the two gigabyte limit being shocking, it was at the time. The only reason Google could pull it off is because 1) very, very few users would get anywhere near that and 2) they were already scaling data at a ridiculous rate. A traditionally desktop-oriented software company like Microsoft would not be able to offer anything similar without tremendous investment of hardware and development.