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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: 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!