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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, @10:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @10:33PM (#258557)

    I'll clarify: When AT&T started throttling its unlimited users they were making claims that they were downloading more than the average broadband user does.

    And the real question: why should that even matter? If those heavy downloaders are downloading at 5pm in their local timezone and causing network congestion, then just add a fair-share rate limiter that throttles them only during the periods of congestion so their downloads don't adversely effect other users, but otherwise ignore them.

    Of course, the real reason was profit driven. The CEO's saw opportunities to charge money for more downloading, and so to charge, they first had to cut off the heavy users (since they were the ones they wanted to bill anyway) in order to "convince" them to "pay up".

  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday November 05 2015, @07:13AM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 05 2015, @07:13AM (#258732)

    And the real question: why should that even matter?

    For the simple reason that somebody doing that is reducing the quality of service for everybody else at that tower. Even that probably wouldn't be so bad except using that much data with an iPhone is very hard to do, even today, meaning they really went out of their way to pull that off. This happened long before LTE.

    Of course, the real reason was profit driven.

    Yep. That's why they were fined nearly a hundred million dollars.

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