Email world is changing -- thanks gmail

Now with the latest hotmail move of giving its user from as lil as 2mb(are we biggers?) to 250mb(here is story)
Complete email service scenario seems to be changing,
Best of hotmail was
- Its speed among internal users and notifications
- U can configure to get zero spam in your inbox, I said Inbox!!
- Great integration with its messanger, which makes email like phone call.

And well now visit yahoo, its best was:
- Reliability
- Wide platform support
- 3x more storage than hotmail
- Good local services, this was the reason most of the people in india used yahoo mail and messanger only
And than started comin time that everyone thought free email will no longer will remain free and indeed many indian email service providers literally made it paid after the both hotmail and yahoo taked out there paid version, and only reason it never got paid at that time that both of them was worried of each other, and noone wanted to take this bold step and than slowly regional players in country (like india, indiatimes, rediff; Russia, mail.ru, etc and so on) also started becomin stronger that also stopped these 2 giants to make there emails paid, but they continued putting strings around like 30 days must check mail, small size attachment, etc, etc.
And then comes the google with its plan of gmail and indeed this got so effective in its early beta that having address with gmail people took it as proud and wildely tried different way of getting one, look here for details.
And now we see these giants changing there face as with increasing ad money(yahoo makes BIG money using mail ad now) also came in picture and no one wanted to loose that good spinning cash. so now you see each of them extending there hand, yahoo has made its inbox size 100 mb, well pretty enough for normal users, so than msn started looking too small and decided to go for 250meg, though according to original track of MS i was thinking it will do this but either 25 meg or max 50 meg, but with changing face of MS(some code finally came out) now, this is also a new thing.
Lets see now what the actual future of gmail is, and no matter what gmail future is, atleast it have made sure that free users will have enough space and good services atleast for comin good years, and this can be one of the reason to say, thanks gmail.