Just logged into mine for the first time in a few weeks. Yes, it's now at 250MB. Too bad I'll never use it again (thank you, Gmail!). Hotmail deleted all my inbox messages, maybe during an attempted upgrade (not due to my not logging in as I used to check it daily), and told me I was out of luck in regards to retrieving them once their Janitor deletes the messages. Even if you upgrade to the $20 account and that happens, you're out of luck -- they don't backup anything. So, what's the advantage of paying $20 for the upgrade? Ooh, I get even more storage space for spam.