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Gmail, officially Google Mail in Germany, Austria and the United Kingdom, is a free Web-based email (Webmail) and POP3 e-mail service provided by Google. It was released on April 1, 2004 as a private beta release by invitation only and was opened to all as a public beta on February 7, 2007.With an initial storage capacity of 1 GB, it drastically increased the standard for free storage.
Gmail offers just over 2900 megabytes of free storage, with an additional 6 GB available for US$20 per year. It has a search-oriented interface and a unique 'conversation view'. Gmail is well-known for its use of the Ajax programming technique in its design.
If current indications are anything to go by, Microsoft's popular Outlook software and IBM's Lotus Notes could see a part of their markets chipped off by free alternatives, though one could always argue about the richness of features.
Three years ago when Gmail was launched it gave the flexibility which no other e-mail, not even your very own POP and SMTP (that enabled downloading of your e-mails on your desktop computer) offered.
Combined with virtually unlimited storage (currently at 2.9 gigabytes (GB) and increasing by the second), flexibility using the Ajax software framework, Gmail has been a dream-come-true for users needing large amounts of space and an easy manageability which search features provide.
The ground has already been set with Google Gears helping create an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) application, Google Reader, to help download Web content like news and blogs through an offline software.
According to well-placed sources, Gmail Offline is likely to be launched within this year and this will likely add to Microsoft woes already reeling under repeated attacks from Google.
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