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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: 2) by M. Baranczak on Wednesday November 04 2015, @05:09PM

    by M. Baranczak (1673) on Wednesday November 04 2015, @05:09PM (#258420)
    75 TB is about 16,000 DVDs (assuming that each DVD is filled to capacity, which they rarely are, so the actual number would be even higher). So I doubt that "movie collections" is the actual reason, some spokesman probably just pulled that out of his ass. Otherwise, yeah, you're right.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @05:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @05:34PM (#258435)

    DVDs are old-skool. Blue-ray and 4K are the pirates' booty now.

  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday November 04 2015, @09:06PM

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday November 04 2015, @09:06PM (#258515) Journal

    In fairness, the movie collection wasn't the only thing in that 75TB usage quote. It also included backup of several entire PCs.

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