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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday November 04 2015, @04:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the pick-another-provider dept.

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: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Wednesday November 04 2015, @07:08PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday November 04 2015, @07:08PM (#258465) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @08:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @08:34PM (#258497)

    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.