14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft hasn't succeeded to keep up with Google, Yahoo and AOL which offered their users humongous inboxes: 2GB, 1GB and respectively 2GB. Hotmail, on the other hand, is touting its 250MB (which are only available in America and some other regions) as if no one can compete with them.
And it seems that MS wants to get rid of as many clients as possible, the company announcing its intention to label as spam the e-mails whose ID sender cannot be checked.
The idea to fight spam is good, but not in the way Microsoft wants, by forcing Internet providers and Internet domain holders to publish their SPF (Sender Policy Framework) records so that mail servers can be identified.
If Microsoft implements this technology, many users might find out their legitimate mails are labeled as spam. According to Microsoft, around 1 million domains out of the 71.4 million registered at the end of last year, have published their SPF records.
"We think Microsoft is trying to strong-arm the industry into the adoption of an incomplete and not accepted standard," said Dave Rand, chief technologist for Internet content security at security software company Trend Micro.