Important changes to OneDrive

[Fulcrum29]

I received this email on my personal MS account.

Important changes to OneDrive

We want to inform you about some upcoming changes to OneDrive that will affect you. In approximately 90 days, the amount of storage that comes with OneDrive will change from 15 GB to 5 GB. We are also discontinuing the 15 GB camera roll bonus. As a result of these changes, you will be over your OneDrive storage limit on 29/06/2016 (visit the Storage page to check your account). You can learn more by taking a look at our FAQs.

To ease this transition, claim a free one-year subscription to Office 365 Personal.* This subscription includes 1 TB of OneDrive storage.

Alternatively, you can purchase additional storage,** or choose to remove some files.

We realise these are big changes to a service you rely on. We want to apologise for any frustration they may cause you. We've made a difficult decision, but it's one that will let us sustainably operate OneDrive into the future.

Thank you for using OneDrive.

– The OneDrive Team

What an idiotic move by MS, give something to only take it away. I doubt that they do even understand competitive differentiation…

How many things have MS given to the public to lure them into a product, or 365 to be precise?

They did the same with their custom domains initiative.

 

[LCBXX]

That's strange. My storage has just grown and grown over time. That said, I was an early adopter of Skydrive.

 

[Hamster]

If this is a for real then they are basically killing off OneDrive as a standalone product.

Just can't fscking rely on these tech bastards.

 

[sajunky]

If this is a for real then they are basically killing off OneDrive as a standalone product.

OneDrive is not a product, it is a service - for Microsoft and Microsoft's partners.

 

[backstreetboy]

I received this email on my personal MS account.



What an idiotic move by MS, give something to only take it away. I doubt that they do even understand competitive differentiation…

How many things have MS given to the public to lure them into a product, or 365 to be precise?

They did the same with their custom domains initiative.

http://www.windowscentral.com/micro...ge-5gb-discontinues-unlimited-storage-options

Monday, Nov 2, 2015 at 11:21 pm EST

Microsoft has announced radical changes to its OneDrive cloud storage service, ending unlimited storage for Office 365 users. Free storage is also being decreased from 15GB to 5GB for all users. The reason for the scaling back of storage comes after Microsoft found that a few customers were using up to 75TB of cloud storage from a single account

You're late...

EDIT: you should've kept the 25GB --> http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/11/9890966/microsoft-onedrive-free-storage

YOU NEED TO OPT-IN TO KEEP YOUR FREE ONEDRIVE SPACE

 

[nkawit]

Haha, there is no such thing as "unlimited" storage.

Drives come at a cost and when people like Microsoft realize this, they have no choice but to discontinue the unrealistic "unlimited" space and downgrade to an amount which makes business sense.