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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 $1.99 per month in early 2016. Free storage will be reduced from 15GB to 5GB for all free users. The camera roll bonus of 15GB will be discontinued.
Microsoft's reasoning for the OneDrive storage offering downgrades: "A small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings. In some instances, this exceeded 75 TB per user or 14,000 times the average."
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(Score: 0, Insightful) by hunchentoot on Wednesday November 04 2015, @04:42PM
One of the reason I quit reading slashdot was because the community had a pattern of posting information laced with so much FUD that it became a waste of time to bother reading.
Microsoft in particular was something people seemed to especially enjoy publishing failures as news stories. Predictably after such a news story came online comments would roll in generally saying "haha M$ sucks again".
I dont understand the pleasure people derive from beating the same dead horse, it is neither productive, educational nor interesting and it isnt the characteristic of a respectable news site. It is illogical to "hate" everything about a corporate entity. It is even more illogical to choose to hate microsoft in particular more than any other major tech company such as google or apple.
I looked in soylent yesterday and today again. Looking at the xamarin article and now this the slashdot pattern is being re-played.
Compare this with the articles and community from ycombinator where people see both sides of the coin and more thoughtful posts are upvoted, while the empty articles and snide uninformative comments fall to the bottom. That is the kind of community I was hoping to see in soylent.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Wednesday November 04 2015, @04:52PM
Unlike YCombinator, this site is not yet big enough for Microsoft to pay people so that you see "both sides of the coin".
(Score: 1, Interesting) by hunchentoot on Wednesday November 04 2015, @04:58PM
If that is the prevailing community attitude then it never will be as big or respectable as a news source.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Bot on Wednesday November 04 2015, @05:12PM
The only criterion for respectability is adherence to the truth, and that's not even done in the summary or the article but in the comments, so whine less and inform more :)
Account abandoned.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday November 04 2015, @05:22PM
I would rather be factual than respected. The respect I value the most is self-respect.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @04:52PM
Instead of complaining, how about writing one of those thoughtful posts that talks about the other side of this story?
(Score: 0, Troll) by hunchentoot on Wednesday November 04 2015, @05:00PM
Youre right. Posting a thoughtful article takes time and research. I'm already spending too much time just replying to your comment during my day. For now I am just read-only however your statement stands, if my convictions were stronger I would participate more directly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @06:06PM
The mods here are backwards. AC 'insightfully' beats down the only reasonable 'troll' line of thinking from hunchentoot. Whose point that SN is going going gone green site already, may have not gone far enough, might even be more redit quality with the way this articles comments went.
(Score: 3, Touché) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 04 2015, @06:44PM
AC 'insightfully' beats down the only reasonable 'troll' line of thinking from hunchentoot.
Wait, isn't that the way modding is supposed to work? Trolls like Hottentot get insighted? Enlightened? Exposed to sunlight so that they turn to stone, or at least "read only"?
And I must say, parenthetically, that I do not think I ever heard anyone, back at the Grand Inception of the Slashbellion that begat SoylentNews, say that what was wrong with the green site was that it was too anti-MS! If anything, it was too pro-MS! And who could be in favor of such a debilitating disease? And then to have both Multiple Sclerosis and have your unlimited cloud storage unilaterally un-unlimited? And the troll is asking for both sides of story? Is this a beta troll?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by hunchentoot on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:54AM
I got the message loud and clear.
Just as a bit of background I have been a software engineer by profession since the early 90s almost exclusively in the linux stack with a few gigs related to microsoft. I have never worked for microsoft nor do I represent them in any way.
I have felt the pain of developing for IE, interfacing with their build systems, their source control, their silverlight. I'm not blind to the short-sighted and greedy decisions over the years.
I was hoping for a community here that would step back and ponder the notion that MS as a company is no more worthy of vitrol than a company that en-masse outsources american jobs to the lowest bidder, or maybe engages in back-room price fixing of american employee wages, or sues developers for reverse engineering their hardware.
What I received in return was ad-hominem attacks and facile platitudes about not standing up for "truth". I can see this is an argument where there is no convincing this community of alternate perspective.
You win, I am enlightened to your view and exposed to the sun where I will turn to stone and rot away. I'll stay away from this site from now on it's obvious im too stupid to be here
(Score: 1, Troll) by Nerdfest on Wednesday November 04 2015, @07:11PM
Well, the the troll mod on the GP post is definitely unfair, in my opinion. I agree with the OT post of the original, but the troll mod is really being used as "disagree with your original premise". I really like the way that the Disagree mods work, tagging, but not down-voting. In general, I think Troll mods should be extremely rare.
(Score: 2) by Tramii on Thursday November 05 2015, @06:06PM
Well, the the troll mod on the GP post is definitely unfair, in my opinion.
Seems fair to me. Hunchentoot complains that he perceives an unfair anti-Microsoft bias, but when asked to do something about it, complains that he doesn't have the time. He makes *multiple* posts complaining about the situation but refuses to actually do anything constructive to help fix the situation. Sounds like a troll to me!
(Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday November 04 2015, @06:56PM
I don't think it's only Microsoft, they aren't singled out. All large organizations are used like punching bags. You may only feel this way because you have a tighter affiliation with Microsoft than most people. I write C# most days so i depend on their existence. But i also have a sweet collection of Windows 10 bluescreens (pic taken by phone) that i use as desktop backgrounds in a 5 minute rotation. I can bash on MS at work and bash on Linux (hah!) at home. Microsoft is just a much much larger to shoot at.
That being said, this article, summary, and headline do not appear to be FUD. If you do see some, feel free to point it out.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Wednesday November 04 2015, @07:08PM
If truth is posted that is of interest to a community, THAT is important: the corporate driven TPP (from what was leaked) wants government funded news to stop... they want only publicly/CORPORATELY funded news... news paid for by big business which WILL, of course, not tell you about TRUTH (or only tell you the big brother truth).
Microsoft has REPEATEDLY screwed 'this community' in the past and continues to do so today: this is TRUTH. If you can't stand the TRUTH, leave the community: if not, you will have to put up with articles telling the TRUTH.
We (this 'community') like the TRUTH (and yes, maybe it is truth driven by an agenda???) but it is still the TRUTH, truth that keeps the 'community' informed.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @08:34PM
I couldn't agree more.
MS has done things that I thought Google was nuts to do, and they made it bigger and worse in some regards.
I never thought that line would get crossed, and then zillions of people comment that "oh well I jumped off the bridge so stop being a party pooper and jump to your death of privacy as well! Besides, its free, what are you complaining about?"
To me, they broke numerous promises, just with this one incident--business practices, marketing practices, their promises, and their commitments.
They said they dont look at the files and they clearly do in a clear format, or they are lying to us by saying an HTTPS SSL based tunnel is really an encrypted cloud. No, that's just tinted or blackened windows on the vehicle used to deliver the information. Pull it over via law enforcement or crime, and everything inside is unsecured in the way they promised, and further, they know what I have been sending and they said they wouldn't and couldn't look.
Then they wanted to charge me more for it because someone else ruined it for everyone. You know what? Fuck those people then, but most importantly, fuck you, because there is no way in hell -- no way! No way in hell that some place as big as MS did not predict or see this coming from a "users believing them and making choices based on those beliefs" perspective.
And, if I was a user and decided to rewrite the EULA in my favor, I could get tossed out on my ass for fraud or breaking the contract. They just have to post a notice that Darth Vader suggested that we pray he does not alter the deal any further!
Tell me one thing that's positive out of all of this, a truth from Microsoft that can be positive without spin? What is a single one? It's not that its better or faster or in my best interests to pay more for less. It's not secured better. In fact, they announced it isn't even as secure as what we all signed up for. So how is this good news? Where's the bias in facts, and while we're at it, would the people with the good news please present it now? I want to see if your news is factual and unbiased. Don't worry--many people here will be happy to argue any security or technological merits involving it.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by http on Wednesday November 04 2015, @07:18PM
Rational thinking has an anti-MS bias. Their "fuck you, pleb" attitude towards their customers is generally far more important than the quality of their products.
I browse at -1 when I have mod points. It's unsettling.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday November 04 2015, @07:45PM
I thought "fuck you, pleb" was their product and software was just an additional option (with additional expense naturally). With that in mind, their attitude is totally rational.
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