Sweet this is going to make my mom happy, she is too stupid to delete mail, but a week ago I had to erase all of it because it was full and she couldn't get her precious forwards of funny jokes from her brother.
That's how long I've had mine ('98) and it was upgraded recently. So to all of those waiting, they've made it up to the year 1998 with their account updates.
My hotmail account is from 1995 and it's still at 2mb. I think one of the factors in the upgrading is how active the account is. I almost never use hotmail anymore so that may be why I don't get 250mb
i posted this about a month ago https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/92925/
and someone in that thread said he'd already had 250mb for over a month of something. They just rolling it out gradually. The best part is you can share mp3s with friends now, i'm enjoying that.
But, why would anyone bear with hotmail? Even the very first Gmail beta was so much better. Or basically any other email service, including Yahoo! mail.