Hotmail users will just have received an email from MSN telling them all about Windows Live mail beta. In it they promise 2 GB of storage (less than Gmail, I hasten to add, which currently stands at 2.7 GB and is ever growing). The email states that “2 GB = 2,000,000,000 bytes”.

I know this to be false! Google Calculator tells me so: 2GB is actually 2,147,483,648 bytes.

I also don’t like the way you can’t forward mail to another address, or switch off these silly announcements oh wait, it turns out you can.

The end.