However yesterday’s announcements saw changes introduced because people were abusing OneDrive’s unlimited storage.
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Free OneDrive storage, in the meantime, will drop from 15 GB to 5 GB, and the previous 15 GB camera roll storage bonus will be discontinued. Even more so, when you consider that the OneDrive team deliberately picked a figure which is less than the average user stores as the free storage limit.
In addition to reducing subscribers’ storage from unlimited to 1 TB, Microsoft is also dropping its 100 GB and 200 GB paid plans for standalone OneDrive storage.
Lavenda doesn’t deny that Microsoft’s new package that includes 1TB of storage for Office 365 Home, Personal, or University subscribers isn’t still a good choice at the side of Google and Dropbox offerings, only that what can only be perceived as a downgrade might prove to be for Microsoft a, “Setback in the cutthroat competitive market for becoming the consumer’s cloud platform of choice”.
Changes to OneDrive quotas will see Office 365 users having 1TB of OneDrive storage.
A small number of users”, Microsoft writes on its website, “backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings.
These changes are expected to come into effect in early 2016 and existing users who now exceed existing storage limits will be given a 12-month grace period to reduce their storage consumption.
The move has attracted the ire of OneDrive users. However, from early next year, a few customers may find the service to be more basic than what they’re accustomed to.
Microsoft further added that the company wants to remove focus on “extreme backup scenarios” and turn its attention to high-value productivity and collaboration that benefit the majority of their users.
Microsoft hasn’t yet announced timing details for this change, but more information should be provided in early 2016. Google Drive still offers 15GB for free and 100GB for $2 per month. “This is a huge back down”.
This is the big scandal this week: the sudden reversal ofMicrosoft’s “unlimited” OneDrive cloud storage for users of Office 365. A number of users in the comments mentioned using CloudDrive for their photography and video work.
IDC analyst Liz Conner told us she was not overly surprised by Microsoft’s decision.
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Microsoft has been forced to stop offering unlimited storage on its OneDrive cloud storage service because people were using up too much space. As with everything “unlimited” in the tech world, Microsoft only used the word for marketing magic, though, and really didn’t want anybody to actually use what they’d paid for. “We think that users have the right to continue to expecting versatile, competitively priced options from Microsoft”, the petition said.
