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Microsoft Announces OneDrive Downgrades

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

Celestial writes:

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) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @10:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @10:03PM (#258546)

    TFS says

    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.

    but Microsoft's announcement says

    If you are using more than 5 GB of free storage, you will continue to have access to all files for at least 12 months after these changes go into effect in early 2016.
    [...]
    Current customers of standalone OneDrive storage plans (such as a 100 or 200 GB plans) are not affected by these changes.

    If the announcement is a lie, please feel free to correct me. I'm not a Onedrive customer.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:08AM (#258659)

    Correcting myself: taking another look, I see that the announcement [archive.org] also says

    We’re no longer planning to offer unlimited storage to Office 365 Home, Personal, or University subscribers. Starting now, those subscriptions will include 1 TB of OneDrive storage.

    ...but at least they're not immediately nuking the files of people who went over 1 TB.