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Microsoft announced yesterday that they plan to downgrade their various OneDrive storage offerings.
Office 365 Home, Personal and University customers are now limited to 1 TB of OneDrive storage instead of unlimited storage. The 100GB and 200GB OneDrive plans are discontinued. They will be replaced by a 50GB plan for $1.99 per month in early 2016. Free storage will be reduced from 15GB to 5GB for all free users. The camera roll bonus of 15GB will be discontinued.
Microsoft's reasoning for the OneDrive storage offering downgrades: "A small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings. In some instances, this exceeded 75 TB per user or 14,000 times the average."
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Silverman's Law:
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Zappy on Wednesday November 04 2015, @04:38PM
Well "unlimited" (marketing speak) hasn't really been unlimited http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unlimited [merriam-webster.com] for some time now. Why act surprised.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday November 04 2015, @05:42PM
Well it's worked for ISPs and cell providers, so why not MS?
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday November 04 2015, @09:40PM
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2015/0618/Unlimited-means-unlimited-Did-AT-T-mislead-their-customers-video [csmonitor.com]
All evidence is that unlimited means unlimited by the offerer.
It might be physically impossible for a user to actually use an unlimited amount, but the offerer can't impose a limit (while advertising unlimited) without risking a 100 million dollar fine.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.