End of the Free Lunch for Web Storage

Google, Microsoft and Apple all announced changes to their online storage services last week.  Google announced, essentially, the end of free, unlimited storage.  Paid storage upgrades for behemoth Picasa or GMail folders (soon to be added, Google Docs & Spreadsheet folders) can be had at the rate of $20/year for 6GB (on top of the 2.8 already provided free of charge by Google), running up to $500/year for 250GB.  To find out more, login to your GMail account and click the "Upgrade your storage" link.  Windows Live SkyDive is a free beta solution that provides 500MB of free Internet file storage for any purpose.  Click here to find out more.  You can create personal, shared, or public folders using the service.  Apple, not to be left behind, also bumped up the storage associated with .Mac accounts to 10GB, while keeping subscription to .Mac the same, at $99 per year.  Yahoo already offers unlimited storage for Yahoo mail users.  Microsoft hotmail has upped their storage limit to 5GB.