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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: 1) by scarboni888 on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:20AM

    by scarboni888 (5061) on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:20AM (#258629)

    Just purely based on the mathematical definiation of it isn't there ALWAYS someone who is above average with regard to anything you're measuring?

    If the average is 100MB and I'm using 110MB that puts me above the average so then I can be considered abusive.

    I'm not arguing to say there's no such thing as abusive users however a service provider arguing that 'there are some users who are using ABOVE average amount of services' seems rather meaningless to me.