Why MSN is smarter than AOL
ZDNet | at | by Mike
MSN is putting a lot of effort into becoming an Internet enhancement--rather than a replacement. MSN wants to take services like e-mail, which ISPs offer for free with your Internet connection, and make them worth paying for.
For example, MSN Premium gives you up to 11 e-mail addresses, enough for a family with multiple aliases or even a small business. MSN Premium mail is filtered through the same (excellent) spam filter that Outlook 2003 uses. In fact, the filter was designed for and first implemented on MSN. Premium customers get 25MB of online mail storage. The MSN client--a specialized version of Internet Explorer--will also download other POP mail.