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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: 2) by aclarke on Wednesday November 04 2015, @10:38PM

    by aclarke (2049) on Wednesday November 04 2015, @10:38PM (#258558) Homepage

    I'm an Office 365 customer. I read the blog posting about a year ago that they were going to offer unlimited storage. I tried over the past year or so to get the unlimited deal, and was never able to. I even contacted Microsoft about it and got some bizarro answer as to why I still only had 1TB available to me. Now, a year later, it's gone before I even got it.

    As it turns out, I only have 15.5GB up there anyway, so it doesn't really matter. I actually just finally signed up for the 1TB Dropbox Pro the other day, since Dropbox actually does (some of) the things I need it to do. It's frustrating that I'm paying for Dropbox when I'm already paying for OneDrive as part of Office 365, but Microsoft still has a way to go with this product.

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