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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 Thursday November 05 2015, @05:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @05:23AM (#258694)

    Every month, you are have an infinite quota of breathable air! You also have an unlimited supply of water (except if you're in CA). You can literally run ALL your taps 24/7 and you'll never run out of it. You won't get an infinite amount of water, but you will get an unlimited amount of water.

    Remember kids: Unlimited != Infinite

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @06:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @06:59AM (#258729)
    What happens when ten people do that? One hundred? One thousand? In theory nobody was going to run up 76TB, but it happened.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @02:05PM (#258841)

      Then the water coming out of your tap will flow slower, and slower, and slower. But it will keep coming.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:45PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @03:45PM (#258900)
        Your example isn't working very well. You know what would happen.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @06:26AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @06:26AM (#259841)

          Yes, the water company will see demand increasing more than they could handle and will use their increased profits to generate more supply. Microsoft offered free unlimited so they'd attract users from other companies and have the chance to convert them into paying customers. It was a calculated risk they specifically took. Sure, if they regret it they should stop offering unlimited storage for any new customers, but changing the terms on existing users should be considered fraud.