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:
Since we started to roll out unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 consumer subscribers, 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.
These are the changes prescribed by Microsoft:
- We're no longer planning to offer unlimited storage to Office 365 Home, Personal, or University subscribers. Starting now, those subscriptions will include 1 TB of OneDrive storage.
- 100 GB and 200 GB paid plans are going away as an option for new users and will be replaced with a 50 GB plan for $1.99 per month in early 2016.
- Free OneDrive storage will decrease from 15 GB to 5 GB for all users, current and new. The 15 GB camera roll storage bonus will also be discontinued. These changes will start rolling out in early 2016.
The Redmond giant has mentioned that customers that exceed the new quotas will have access to their files for at least 12 months, following which it will scale back the storage:
- If you are an Office 365 consumer subscriber and have stored in excess of 1 TB, you will be notified of this change and will be able to keep your increased storage for at least 12 months.
- If you are an Office 365 consumer subscriber and find that Office 365 no longer meets your needs, a pro-rated refund will be given. To learn more visit the FAQ.
- If you are using more than 5 GB of free storage, you will continue to have access to all files for at least 12 months after these changes go into effect in early 2016. In addition, you can redeem a free one-year Office 365 - Personal subscription (credit card required), which includes 1 TB of OneDrive storage.
- Current customers of standalone OneDrive storage plans (such as a 100 or 200 GB plans) are not affected by these changes.
Microsoft has additional information regarding the changes here. What do you guys think of the upcoming changes to OneDrive? Will you continue using the service?
Source: OneDrive blog
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Microsoft downgrades free OneDrive storage to 5GB, ends unlimited storage for Office 365 customers
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I am going back to the google drive/ apple cloud. Atleast they donot back stab us. I am throwing away my windows phone as soon as possible. No use. Totally rubish microsoft. Why should i use a crap phone with all those beta applications, limited functionawhen you cut down my camera role bonus?
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And they have done it, after supporting Windows Phone from the Windows Phone 7 era i'm done. I'm swapping to android. Onedrive and it's usability was the main reason for me to use the phone and now they force me to move my files to another cloud space client. A huge **** U in the face of all Windows Phone backers. I'm selling my Lumia 735. Good riddance.
So now after Microsoft told me to upload everything, they want me to download it and store it somewhere else.
Goodbye forever Microsoft.
Hello Google Drive and Mega.
This move may kill off OneDrive... However, if you move onto MEGA, they give you 50GB free storage, so I may move over to that.
"If you are using more than 5 GB of free storage, you will continue to have access to all files for at least 12 months after these changes go into effect in early 2016. In addition, you can redeem a free one-year Office 365 - Personal subscription (credit card required), which includes 1 TB of OneDrive storage."
How do we get redeem a free one-year O365 Personal subscription?
actually it doesn't say anything about the loyalist bonus of 10gb so i think we get to keep that
Anyone who is considering moving to a different cloud storage provider, Cloudsfer is definitely the answer.
I came across Cloudsfer a while ago and transferred my OneDrive content to another cloud storage service. The interface is easy to use and they give 10gb free of charge when signing up. Definitely worth checking out! http://www.cloudsfer.com/
Dear OneDrive Customers:
We’re making changes to OneDrive storage plans for consumers and are committed to making this transition as smooth as possible.
• We're no longer naming the product OneDrive. Starting now, the name will be NoDrive.
• Any GB plan is going away as an option for any user, any time, and will be replaced with a 0 GB plan for $1.99 per month in early 2016.
• Free OneDrive storage will decrease from 15 GB to 0 GB for all users, current and new. The 15 GB camera roll storage bonus will also be discontinued.
These changes will start rolling out in early 2016...or sooner since we grossly miscalculated the storage requirements of unlimited storage.
Additional information can't be found, and we won't continue to update it throughout the transition, or any time at all. (NoDrive, remember?)
Sincerely,
The NoDrive Team
Microsoft...Mobile Last, Cloud Last
Thanks for the lecture. Good bye.
The issue is that you lose the ability to call someone an abuser when you say 'Unlimited'. There's no way to abuse unlimited resources. The whole idea is illogical. What they are seeing is that they cannot sustain this. It's a loss leader and it's a massive waste of storage space in their data centers. They'd rather monetize the data than give it away for good will.
For the people who want a lot of photo storage, there are sites like Flickr that offer 1TB of storage. Use that.
The users that will only use your service if you basically give the whole thing (i.e. massive amount of storage) away for free (and $6.99/mo for Unlimited Storage, is basically giving it away compared to virtually every other cloud storage service on the planet) are really not the users Microsoft needs to care about. They should be happy to see them go to whatever niche provider is FAD at the moment (see Copy and Mega users spamming everyone with invites everywhere these days).
For 650MB Storage you will pay $9.99/mo at Google for 1TB Capacity. Once you go over that, you will pay $99.99/mo for 10TB Capacity.
The story is similar elsewhere.
Microsoft needs to break the codependency with the welfare users and focus more on a upper-mid range and higher end users who actually want to pay for shit, don't mind paying for shit, and will actually give them revenue to grow their business.
If Microsoft isn't monetizing your data, then they are losing money on every users "abusing" the storage but paying fractions of pennies on the dollar for it.
The only reason why people are complaining, is becasue they're selfish adn they like getting something for nothing, or tons of something for laughably low prices.
No, in fact not. when you pay for subscrition as I do about £7 monthly (about 80 quids P/A) you got a family membership and you can install Office 365 on 5 devices in your household and on 5 mobile devices and also you can have up to 5 users (among family members), and each user get 1Tb of space on OneDrive (Ok, used to be unlimited, but I did not ever knew). So you actually have to compare to 5 boxes of office, which is not 150 bucks, but 150x5, and to 5Tb of cloud storage. Not sure you can get anywhere close to that stuff for £80 p/a with another providers. Also, as long as you pay for subscription you always have a fresh software, and it is full-functional office, not like this openoffice crap.
Becouse no other company gives something and then takes it back without explanation. When they offered extra 15GB for storing pictures they claimed that it was no time limited offer. Seems they layed. I've spent hundreds bucks for Microsoft's hardware and software partialy becouse of OneDrive. Now the service is cripled seriously by removal of "smart files" in W10 (i had to go back to Dropbox) and I will have to move 30GB data to another cloud service.
.. not to mention that 15GB includes your email usage.
No biggie. I'm just signing up for their 200GB plan right now before they stop offering it and will call it a day. Their FAW clearly says that current customers using these planse will not be affected by the changes, so I'm satisfied. 200GB is all I need anyway.
The thing is you did get exactly that. So their promise is real. However like any other company they make you accept some ToS and you did and now they can decide to change that at any point. Now I understand being upset about it, but it's something we all have to move on from.
It's like when cellphones started to limited data usage instead of offering unlimited like they use to from the get go. They know they can profit from it and some people just abused the system. If anything it's the 750tb guys we should be upset at. They increased the cost for EVERYONE.
Why did they butcher the free 15GB? Now the service isn't appealing to new users at all over Google or several others. The free 15GB was a great starting point and lured me away from DropBox where I have about 7GB of space I had built up over the years. Now I will be going back to that since OneDrive slams me all the way down to 5GB. I am not sure how this startegy works to Microsoft's advantage when they are giving away Windows 10. You'd think they would want to be gaining subscribers to their services rather than driving them away.
It should be exclusive to the 950 and 950XL and it should just be 1 year. They do it with the "chromebook killer" laptops like the HP Streams. I don't see why they can't offer that for the phone.
"Let's become a better alternative to Google"....nah.
Communism sounds like Microsoft right now, good until the people that rule are good. Next modification for Windows ? Censorship :)
Cloud future - company giveth, company taketh away. I understand that the were too generous and some people abused them but 5GB ?
Mine the same. Office 365 came with one TB in June 2014. A little later they wrote: 'Good news, we are increasing your OneDrive storage to unlimited. Whilst we make these changes we are upping it to 10TB.' It has remained at 10TB but am using about 250Gb, being mostly pictures and music. Music now streamable via Groove and via Groove/Sonos it would be a real nuisance is they withdrew the storage although it is very unlikely I'd ever get near even 1TB.
Here's the thing... Microsoft's ecosystem is in third place these days behind Apple's and Google's... yet I stuck with them for two reasons: Windows Media Center and Unlimited OneDrive storage... since Microsoft insists on killing everything we love, they leave me no choice but to leave the ecosystem and switch to Apple or Google. At least those companies don't employ these "bait and switch" tactics.
It's clear now that Microsoft offered the "Unlimited OneDrive" promotion to increase subscriptions to Office 365 and had no intentions on honoring their offer. Bad behavior must be punished, so they're losing my business. I suggest everyone affected by this decision vote with their wallet because Money is the only thing companies listen to.
Yeha, godbye Windows phone with 5 GB cloud storage and Hello Android with 15 GB cloudstorages for photos! Now I have 15 GB fpr free and want to keep it with Android.
But, why penalise, I am not one of the 75TB users but Microsoft did say unlimited, unless the meaning of unlimited has changed I don't see the supposed abusers abusing anything. I think it's one of the lamest excuse I have ever heard.
This is a very lame excuse, Microsoft. You want to penalise everyone because some users have 75TB of cloud storage for the Unlimited storage, which you advertised as UNLIMITED, unless the meaning of Unlimited has changed overnight in English dictionary, I don't see what the problem is, then you decide in your infinite wisdom to cut down free storage that we get from camera roll back up because this is exactly related to the abuse that you 'assume' is happening, and in the process piss on the promises you made to the customers at the beginning because that's how you roll, Microsoft I salute you for your stupidity and fickleness. I can exactly see how your competitors respond to this.
If it wasn't intended to be unlimited it was Microsoft's responsibility to say so from the beginning. They didn't and are just using this nonsense as a way to justify their gutting of OneDrive.
If Microsoft didn't have a plan in place to pay for unlimited space, then that is their failure.
Just because 'other people do it', doesn't make it acceptable. Microsoft failed to think about how people would use OneDrive, and now that they have, they are blaming their complete lack of thought or planning on the customers.
Just like it is probably the customers fault that Microsoft has mismanaged Lumia into the ground.
Just as long as no one blame the company that was directly responsible for planning and dealing with these issues.
Blaming Microsoft for the problems it created is the last thing anyone wants to do.
I love how you just make shit up as evidence for your ignorant view on this. But what else are we to expect from someone so blind to their team that they can't call crap out when they see it?
You claim people were 'abusing' their unlimited storage. How exactly is using the storage that Microsoft provided to you 'abuse'?
I get people being willing to accept anything MS tells them as gospell truth, but you are delusional to think that it is abuse to use the service you were sold.
I like how you seem to think that you know anything at all. You 'know' that people using the service they paid for must have been abusing it since the people that called it 'unlimited' are the ones to now whine about how someone using 75TB of 'unlimited' space is abusing the thing they were sold. You also 'know' that anyone with more than 5GB of photos must be taking too many pictures, according to you.
You don't actually 'know' anything, but no worry, no one expectes you to allow facts and proof to get in the way of finding Microsoft blameless and the good guy, no matter what crap they pull.
People like you are why I hate defending Microsoft. You are the same kind of mindless zealot that plagues Apple. Mindless water carries that are too busty worshiping the OS you picked as 'the best' to think about the nonsense you spew.
Get off you high horse and listen for once. Or just shut the hell up.
Microsoft sold something as 'unlimited' (their word, they used it on purpose). They decided that what they really meant was 1 TB. But instead of saying that, they cry about how a few users 'abused' the unlimited service. (which is bullshit by the way. If you do not intend for people to use as much space as they want, then do not sell them on the idea that they are buying use of as much space as they want)
Microsoft is a multi-billion dollar company. They have hundreds, if not thousands of lawyers. If they had meant for their 'unlimited' plan to have a data cap, they should have said so. This change is being blamed on users so Microsoft doesn't have to act like a fucking adult and just come out and say their plan was actually limited, and they don't want to give away more than 5GB of space to non paying users.
But since they are inept, they pretend to be a victim and poison the entire OneDrive userbase. Good job Microsoft.
This behaviour is also why they can't sell phones. Instead of treating it like a serious thing, they dick around until the people that have been almost their entire market give up on ever having a phone that works with the rest of the world, and then switching to crap from Apple or crap from one of the countless crappy Android devices.
I am so sick of people like you. Go troll Apple forums and leave the rest of us alone.
Well if you guys remember, recently Microsoft did some kind of deal with Dropbox last couple of weeks and i'm pretty sure that what happened in there for the deal to be made was that one of the things would be that Microsoft would have to downgrade the storage available for 360 users and free users in OneDrive because of the disadvantage that Dropbox had as a cloud business. and Microsoft conceded and gave that vague reason for why they did what they did. me on my part will keep OneDrive but the moment it fills up because of the deal i'm going elsewhere with other different cloud service and not Dropbox or a affiliated one. what Microsoft did took a lot of the trust as a company they are from me.
I couldnt believe it when I saw this news! Microsoft is making a big mistake!
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Microsoft, you have gone bonkers, bloody insane. Are kidding us? You are about to end one of your greatest attractions, you bloody fools. And what kind of a reason is that that somebody is using over 70TB....did they steal that or hacked you to gain that? That was their storage you promised them. You give people something to use and then you say people are using it so we are cutting out down....what kind of a paradox is this. You are building your own coffin as far as windows phones are concerned, you morons.
Microsoft continues in their one step forward two steps back business plan. Give us almost what we're asking for and then yank the rug out from under our feet. I use OneDrive to keep my photo memories safe so I will always have them. Their response is to hose everyone as punishment for a handful using a service that they were actually sold. They are bold faced liars. This has nothing to do with 75 TB being used by someone with"Unlimited" storage. If it did, why are they crushing the 30 gb plan? They are liars going back on their word.
Not sure if it was a temporary offer, but Box gives you 50GB for free if you sign up from an iOS device. I did it from my wife's iPhone. Sadly, the WP's Box app is so lame.
that's the lamest sorry ass excuse ever. I mean what is this kindergarden? you gonna punish everybody in the class just because one kid used a few extra crayons?
@mpr
''OneDrive is still the best and most versatile Offering in the industry - especially with O365''.
Probably ... I don't have experience with Apple's and I'll never have one ... but become less attractive and not everyone needs O365.
Windows/Microsoft pushing us (customers) to buy a things we don't need and with money we don't have.
Or ... if you want ... I can permit myself a brand new Lumia 950 XL every 3 months, but i don't have 10 $/€ monthly for O365.
Why ... becouse I don't need O365 and I don't like being pushed.
http://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/262982-onedrive/category/86091-oned... - go upvote !
@ n8ter#AC
Yep, can easily happend that WP flagships are not available everywhere and new NOKIA (Android/Google) phone(s) already knockin' on the mobile heaven's door ... with Google, Dropbox, Box services and (maybe) CianogenMod onboard.
Reasons enough to take a comment from (above) @mildmanneredjanitor ... ''Google rubs hands'' ... seriously.
Microsoft's decision to cut storage for Office 365 subscribers to 1TB is understandable. But why are they reducing storage for non-paying users to 5GB? 75TB / 14000 (using figures provided by them) is 5.35GB. Unless a significant proportion of OneDrive users who use more than 5GB are Office 365 subscribers or are on some sort of plan, many OneDrive users will have to purchase additional storage or cut their usage. This reeks of a moneygrab.
I'm paying for unlimited storage and they're going to reduce mi space to 1 TB...
The thing with Flickr and Google Photos is that they're pretty bad if you want to store Video. They limit it to 1080p and 10 minutes or less. Not sure how many people feel like storing their videos (as Private) on something like YouTube, but you'll need something like that if you go with either Flickr or Google Photos. iCloud Photos and DropBox don't have that issue because they've always had you pay for the storage instead of tempting you to use them with massive amounts of freebie (and often, temporary) storage promotions.
It has the best Mobile SoC on the market (CPU/GPU), it supports more LTE Bands than almost anything on the market. The camera is good and lets me do 1080p 120FPS Slow Motion video. It has force touch. They still have the best fingerprint technology in the device.
The device isn't outdated at all.
And weren't you people using the whole "Windows Phone doesn't require massive hardware to not lag" back when Microsoft was putting way worse hardware in their flagships? You're endorsing the spec race now that they finally caught up to the competition, in 2015? And I use the term "caught up" very loosely since they'll be Android phones with updated QC SoCs releasing in mere months after most people here get their hands on these new "flagships."
It's not dead and could you care to tell me how much does it cost to have those 75TB on physical storage? You need quite the number of HDDs and if they are too big, you need even more SD cards to cover that and you can't access them that easy from a phone if you have WiFi somewhere you go
You know Microsoft pooped the bed when even windowscentral users won't bother defending them.
Bro way to shoot yourself on the foot....MS has a decreasing market share for WP which OneDrive was a nice bonus....but yeah doe I have 5.5 gigs used on my OneDrive and my limit was 1TB because of the office 365 and I own a lumia 930....now apparently if I understood correctly... im back down to just 5GB....wtf does the 75TB guy has to do with me? and why do you not just separate those specific Users to another Tier/server farm.....AND WTF DID YOU EXPECT WHEN YOU SAID UNLIMITED?
You can't! The same as me, I've looked like a complete idiot yesterday after many of my friends and colleagues read this...Bought them a coffee and we all started to move things to gdrive/dropbox/icloud drive whoever whatever wanted. Although I have just got my new 6S, I was seriously thinking about the 950XL, just to give WP now Windows Mobile another chance considering also the great camera the 950XL has, but what MS did now, proved that I can no longer trust them anymore. So no more MS products.
The average user is getting lost in this conversation: Unsuspecting, not techies, and blindsided when their data gets deleted. Shame on Microsoft. And for removing 100 and 200gb tiers. Shows you what they're really up to. Migrate to an over priced, over featured suite of apps most casual users don't need. Classic ham sandwich scenario.
Hpw do you even upload 75TB of data. I just calculated, it would take over 450 days to do so even with a 15 Mbps upload speeds. Microsoft is exaggerating a little.
Yeap, and this is not the only PR disaster. The ones to be laid off should have been the PR and Marketing Teams which are complete incompetents!
There is an app called picassasync which will back up all your photos automatically to google.
Seriously - you have a terabyte of photos you've taken with your WM phone? The biggest photo I can take with mine is around two megs - but let say yours are 5MB... that's 200,000 photos. That's 54 photos A DAY for ten years.
And why are they all up on the cloud all at one time? I find it hard to believe you have 200,000 excellent - must share - must always have on hand all the time photos.
75 TERABYTES??? Geebus... my ISP caps out at 400GB/month. It would take me 15 and a half years to upload that much - and only if I literally didn't use my internet account for anything else.
This is why we can't have nice things...
-removed-
*Sigh*
Oh Microsoft what are we going to do with you? How can a company employ such bright people, but make poor decisions?
This is Satya Nadella.
When I first told my brother obout unlimited onedrive storage, he said be careful.
This new CEO Nadella wanted to offer unbelievable products to consumers... then when majority of people are using it...
Microsoft (Nadella) gonna break their promise, ask for more... and thats what happened now.
I never ever expected this from a professional company like Microsoft.
Couple suggestions:
One: All users max out your storage now.
Two: Then leave.
Three: A question that needs answering: How does anyone "abuse" "unlimited" storage? If it's unlimited, doesn't that mean no limit? (Or only for some values of "unlimited"?)
So what if a small number of users backed up the entire internet, library of Congress and their whole DVD, music and torrent library? Isn't that what unlimited means? I don't remember any limits or user agreement terms (and I did browse through it! but, may have missed it) specifying abuse or actual limits or any non-unlimited or non-infinite values of "unlimited. ;)
If MS was using file and block level dedupe on their storage it wouldn't matter that much. In fact, the more stored the better and the more efficient because the dedupe dictionary grows too! Does MS not understand storage?
Sorry if this is bit technical and detailed...
That's what Apple's on-line music match is all about. Sure there will be unique items. Sure they will have to build out massive storage. But the storage technology and dedupe is smart and the more items and data stored, the more efficient the system becomes because you get more non-unique files and blocks that are duplicates and eventually you get most of the most common blocks and bunches of blocks from common files and file types and then new - even massive - uploads don't take that much new space. If someone uploads their backup of a movie or song, then the next person to upload the same one, the storage system doesn't write the whole 2nd instance, just pointers to the first instance! Right? Right! Yeah, what he said!
They (MS) clearly don't understand customer service. And they don't understand what this does to their image and my willingness to continue to spend money with them.
We didn't get free lunch. We paid for Office 365 because of the unlimited storage!
This is a black blow and we will not renew our several MS Office 365's when the time comes just after Christmas. Nor will we go with the new Lumia WP's we planned to get for Holidays and Holiday use or as gifts. Right now we're using about 3 TB across 8 Win and WinPhone devices. Now MS just lost us as customers and will not sell us any more. Zero credibility. Zero integrity.
I was just starting to really upload stuff! Photos. Home video. Archives of scanned documents. We were jacked about unlimited storage and the ability to share. We were going to give 15 - 20 Office 365 subscriptions to our small staff, family and friends for Christmas.
We thought unlimited meant unlimited! And we were just starting to explore what that really meant!
This is just stupid.
Maybe the MS userbase shrinkage will cause them to un-backtrack? But, I doubt it. Very stupid. This is what happens when you think you understand "big data" and how to get customers to behave the way you want them to, without talking to and respecting your customers as real people.
Even if MS reverses course again, it's too late for this user and my family. And you can be sure I'll advise anyone who asks me to do the same and stay away. And I'm they guy a lot of people ask.
After all, if they can change terms, definitions and what amount to promises to customers like this today, what will stop them from doing worse tomorrow?
Best to vote by going elsewhere.
Please see this suggestion:http://Windows-Feedback:?contextid=148&feedbackid=37d11c5c-6002-4a4b-8f61-14f27a1c4ef3&form=1&src=2
iCloud offers 5GB free. Dropbox offers 2GB.
I think they bought it.
Removal of 15gb freespace for camera roll is a very bad idea, also decreasing the space from 100gb to 50. This is one more step to kill the windows mobile platform. By the end of my promotional 1TB space by bought 640XL I Will look for another storage service. This is sadly bad.
Looks like we can expect Google or even Apple take advantage of this fiasco. Offering higher free storage nor higher subscription offer (maybe even unlimited if they want to troll harder).
Now i need to explain to my inlaws that their photos i backed up for free for them now will cost them money. ....Or will it when i switch to a different cloud storage provider?
No, absolutely not. If you were not prepared to handle UNLIMITED DATA why in the world would you advertise that?
Were they not paying attention to ATT / Verizon who offered unlimited cellular data plans? The one drive team strikes me as "special".
Unfathomable how you can consider REMOVING storage from windows phone users!!! I feel personally offended by this. I stuck with your ecosystem as you make mistake after mistake after mistake after mistake. Granted most of them you can only control 3rd parties so much. But now YOU, YOU bite the hand that feeds!
LOL :D
I have 2.8 TB of personal professional media on OneDrive. I am planning on moving the storage to Amazon's $60 a year unlimited plan (3 months free trail). I moved from MacBook to Surface, and just got Surface book. But it is full of problems. I am going to return it and may move my money to Apple again.
Great. That's useful.
I think the money is secondary really. Microsoft was just getting back into the good graces of people, even Apple people. This is an old school **** you tactic Microsoft used way back when. I've used all 3 platforms and one of the first apps I would install is SkyDrive, or OneDrive. I have 50 gigs of space. 25 I think when it first came out and various free promos like using outlook etc. I fully expect for Google and maybe even apple to up their storage options and get OneDrive customers. I will be clearing out my OneDrive account tonight and will be paying for extra storage on either Google or iCloud. Which makes it harder because I was thinking about getting back into WindowsPhone but neither Google Drive or Apple have WP apps. So Microsoft lost me twice today.
Apart from the reason of a few users, I'm sure there must be a larger reason for this. I don't think a Co. of such mammoth proportions will take a decision due to a few users. These Co.s fall under the umbrella of taking decisions after doing a 'data or market analysis' and a few users should not sway their decisions. There's something else to this, larger than the reasons they've put in..
Let me explain, we've read about cases were user accounts are closed / suspended, etc. due to illegal materials been loaded on to the OneDrive. It means they do monitor the storage and they do check what kind of files are loaded and to what size. So, if a few users has used 75TB of storage, all they've to do is send an email saying that 'unlimited' storage is subject to fair use policy, instead of making such sweeping changes in rules towards one and all and a) putting we MS fans in a bit of a mess and b) shooting themselves on their own foot.
Hence I believe there's something more to this.
"a small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings. "
Uhm...excuse me, but how did you know that they were collections of movies and DVR recordings? Proof positive that cloud storage isn't secure.
It's more about using as many services from one provider, so everything is in one place, under one account.
Although I am not affected by this decision of theirs as I barely have 100 MB of data on OneDrive, I feel this Microsoft is totally making a u-turn from the statement. Not good at all. Reducing the free quota because of some person using 75 TB? They should not have advertised as unlimited then. It is the same malpractice used by the telecom companies selling 'unlimited' x amount GB data for a fixed price and then reducing the speed to 8 KBps and making the service unusable for user which then calls for a need to re-purchase.
Use of the term 'unlimited' should be illegal for services unless it is actually unlimited. Govenments in bed with businesses will never do it.
OG!!
Mine shows 10TB available... Although I'm no where near to using that. I could likely live with 1TB tbf, although I am a little disappointed :(
Just cancelled my office 365 subscription. I was slowly transitioning over to MS from Android but the trust is gone. I'm just going to buy a big hdd and use Plex to backup my photos/videos in combination with Google Photo's.
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This is pure evil... I was about to buy some onedrive space because it was the "coolest" service and I am sick of dropbox restrictive space... with this... I'm mooving to google... sorry but if OneDrive is gonna play the game of pressure to force you to buy space... I'm not gonna get in that boat
Sorry to say the 6s hardware is outdated before it even hit your hands.
I'm actually more sad about the downgrade for free/default windows users. 1TB in cloud is already good enough for Office365. What worries me is that 5GB is too less for backing up 4K videos and 20MP photos from your phone/mobile devices. And yes, there is no point of backing up compressed degraded quality files. I don't know what goes on in their heads when they make decisions like that.
Feeling like a fool now that the
main benefits of OneDrive are just wiped out
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Microsoft looks cheap and hypocritical. There is lots of storage and apps available with other services. All current 365 and One Drivers should be grandfathered... shame on you Ms.
For a company trying hard to in back users, it is trying equally hard to lose their users. Such a disappointing move that effects everyone.
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Even know this news sounds horrible, I never top off 10 GB of my Office 365 account anyway
Eactly ! How many people ever new there was an unlimitlan? I guess only the microsoft bashers and those that had a ridiculus amount dfiles stored! Why would anyone think you could backup multiple computers for free ! Those that believe in fairy tales I guess!
I did the same...loved my Lumia Icon, but it was apparent MS was giving up on the WP support. Iphone is what makes Apple money so they will spend resources to keep their advantage...like MS with windows. I love the Apple app choices and getting updates right away. I'm in a better world now...I just changed my auto-upload from Onedrive I had on my new iphone 6s to icloud. 108 photo uploading now. I was all in with MS at one point (had 3 zunes), but now the only thing that has Microsoft on it in my house is this OS on this computer. Still the Best OS....for now anyway.
I'll have over a TB for another year, and I don't need that much online, but after that, 5 gigs is not worth the trouble for photo backup. There is still Copy, Dropbox, Box and Mega, for Windows Phones, but I suspect they will cut back eventually, for the free services. Oh well, it's more external drives for mass storage, and the cloud for important backups for me, just not Onedrive.
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MS obviously has done an analysis and figured out that you cheapskates will never pay for cloud storage. Btw, it's smart of MS to focus on their core customers, business and enterprise, rather than try to lure consumers with free storage.
So you are telling me I bought a Windows Phone that only have 8 stupid GB and they promise me at least 30GB for my pictures and stuff... And now I have to pay if I want something more than just 5 stupid GB... Congrats Microsoft I'm returning to android again!!!
I have the free account and never come close to the limit. I recently switched over from Dropbox mainly for the higher storage amounts. It makes me mad that companies keep punishing the innocent for the crimes of the guilty. Why am I being punished because of a few people that insist on taking advantage of the system?
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I agree. My free Google Drive is 15GB. 5GB by Microsoft is cheesy. I just came over to Windows phone from Android but I'm going back to the Samsung Note 5 after this bit of news. I don't trust Microsoft, next they will announce they are out of the phone business.
If this is true, than the free GB's of storage I've accumulated since I started using SkyDrive (totalling ~45GB) is suddenly going to be 5GB. Nice way to treat your long time customer.
Year 1-8: Hey, here's some free space for using our service! Stay with us!
Year 9: Hey, uh, some (paying) douchenozzles decided to take advantage of our offer of unlimited storage, so we want all our space back that we've given you for being a loyal customer! Stay with us!
SMFH, nothing more than a 12-inch mushroom slap to the face.
EDIT: Let me add--if it's not obvious--that as a free user, this is a really big disincentive to ever buy space on OneDrive
Microsoft should terminate this unlimited earlier. 365 Microsoft office subscription users do not want more than 1TB, they just want to use world class Microsoft Office suite that other competitors cannot match their quality. 1TB storage is just a gift and unlimited storage is far too generous. No need to give such unlimited to store movie which 365 users do not want.
Go to focus on quality of onedrive better than size of it. Good move.
Apple do not give it anyway. It just give 5 GZ with their high margin and expensive Iphone anyway.
A Throll a lot here.
In fact, if you are a video producer, tens of TB for your raw video material are quite common. Also, most normal people will loose 25 GB off their plans. And the 100% price increase is just plain disgusting. Add to this the beyond stupid implementation in W10.
Google rub what ?
Have you subscribed 365 Microsoft office suite for only storage ? Make no sense at all. 1TB for 365 subscription users are a lot, a lot more than productivity functions. Microsoft should terminate earlier or not to offer in the first place due to it would not affect their 365 users.
ICloud is worse than OneDrive anyway.
It's perfectly clear, which company keeps scroogling. Microsoft, a history of broken promises, half assed implementations, re-re-re-reimplemantations of the same rubbish and alphas as a product.
I didn't say he was the brightest bulb..... ;)
Part of what I don't understand about this decision/move by MS is the seeming shortsightedness of it. If they truly want and encourage users of its many products (hardware and software) to use the cloud as the main "hard drive" of their life so that all documents and files are always available from all devices, then how long should they expect it to take to bump against the 1TB limit. Using 75TB is obviously a huge outlier in cloud storage "needs", but I don't think it's at all outrageous to think that a user who really embraces the OneDrive/cloud concept could easily need more than 1TB. Microsoft promoted and encouraged us to put our music collection in OneDrive to stream it on our devices; it encouraged any phone user with the OneDrive app to automatically send and store all photos to the cloud; the default storage location for Office programs (Excel, Word, etc.) is OneDrive; it wants us to give ourselves access to our documents and files from anywhere and any device. So if I basically move my laptop hard drive into OneDrive and then build on that for the next few years, I'll definitely pass the 1TB limit without being an "abuser" but rather someone who just drank the Microsoft/OneDrive Kool-Aid and is enthusiastically using the OneDrive product as suggested. Such ridiculous logic on Microsoft's part to think that 1TB will serve all users now and into the future when those users actually just use the service/product offering that MS is encouraging. Such a bad move on so many levels.
I can't figure why Microsoft is looking for bad press before the release of their phone. if that was the only way they could think of resolving the problem of some people abusing onedrive, they have a big problem solving issue. like another user mentioned what that has to do with cancelling storage for windows phone.
Never mind!
Reducing OneDrive storage space will prove to be the biggest, best and dariest PR coup ever.
How come?
Have a look at the situation:
It consumes a lot of resources and has no ROI.
Nor fish no flesh but everything in between
with lots of promises but little concrete delivery.
As of today a user cannot professionally manage OneDrive nor its content.
Its worse than Windows Phone 7 ever has been.
Some even don't know that they have OneDrive
and if so what the hell they could do with it.
They have some content on OneDrive
but probably can't explain how this content ever ended up there
and don't know how to handle it.
It is similar to Dropbox,
but OneDrive is far away from being anything special and
appears fairly bland in comparison with other contenders
and does not define a new category (that's the latest Microsoft lingo).
OneDrive simply is a huge and costly messy kettle of hodgepodge.
"long" time ago.
To make a Microsoft Home Server worthwhile a consideration
it would need to offer features from across all professional versions
- which are sold for big money.
So a Microsoft Home Server that pleases the consumer
compromises the big Windows Server business.
Can't have it both ways - at least for now.
to monetize consumer / small business online storage.
As a good manager, what will you do?
That's what you do:
Come up with a new business model
and kill the loss leader asap or at least lessen the losses as much as possible.
You bet that Satya Nadella is a good manager.
So what does this all mean?
All this means is that Microsoft already has a new business model tucked under its wings
which will be introduced once the dust has settled.
Microsoft today placed a PR nuke with OneDrive,
and by all means this is what they intended.
Its gonna be all over the planet, everybody will get emotional about it
or at least hear about it even though he/she never ever really cared about it.
Microsoft now gets maximum PR attention - for free.
They never could have paid for this kind of attention.
Microsoft definately will introduce a new business model respectively product or service
which will adress much of that what people wanted OneDrive to be.
The old OneDrive is dead as a doornail
The old OneDrive is dead - Microsoft will come up with something new.
Something new which would satisfy their definition of "catagory defining".
With the PR nuke being placed today
any product that Microsoft will introduce to replace the dead fish still being called OneDrive
will receive maximum attention. Guaranteed.
And free of any charges from the media of course.
The king is dead, long live the king
Microsoft ain't no stupid, just the opposite of that.
Microsoft is not giving up on anything,
it just takes a different (more profitable) approch.
Never mind that OneDrive is dead, it's been a stinking fish ever. Anyway.
....
Thank you Google for continuing 15 gigabytes free. I guess my 30 gigabytes will be a goner it seems. Total bullshit.
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Encourage is the quite the euphomism. Fact is: they took away an important advantage for having a Lumia for me. As for Office, I have gathered everything I need over the years (Office 2010 and Office 2013). Today only proved to me what I always knew: stay away from Office 365 and cloud services. They only create dependency and in the long run you pay a lot more.
Exactly! Total BS
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Please define 'unlimited storage' for me.
Wtf 5gb this is less than the google cloud who offer 12.5gb !! I will be downgraded from 30gb to 5gb like that, fuck you Microsoft and fuck onedrive i won't use your could drive anymore !!
I guess Microsoft is back to making stupid and idiotic decisions. On wait when didn't they.
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"Apple = less than 2GB free with lots of paid options"
Apple's free tier is 5GB, not 2GB.
Nobody really offers unlimited anything, fair use policies are standard. Microsofts failure here may have been simply to forget to include one from the start.
So the vast majority of us play by the rules but some jack wagons store gobs of crap and everyone gets punished. It's like that one kid in 2nd grade that cost everyone recess. Microsoft, you seriously gotta rethink this strategy.
There is no such thing as unlimited on any 'unlimited' offer, never has been. I havent looked at the small print for Onedrive, but the only mistake MS may have made is not include a fair use policy.
The worst part of all of this is the reduction in free storage. If you want to change the paid plans and subscriptions fine, but for Microsoft to take away what they gave us so long ago isn't cool at all. I have an Office 365 sub plus many free additions from the past few years. I had enough OneDrive storage for cheap to make cloud storage something I wasn't concerned with any longer. It's a damn shame to see that change.
So the base goes down from 15GB to 5GB, and the 15GB Camera Roll Bonus is going away. What about the other freebies? Do we get to keep the 10GB Loyalty Bonus old-school SkyDrive users got? Or the 3GB Enthusiast Bonus? My 100GB Bing Bonus says it's good until 2/8/2017 and I hope they don't intend to kill that early.
75TB?? There are always people out there who spoil it for everyone else. While I think MS has over reacted that doesnt change the fact that 75TB is just OTT.
I honestly don't get the outrage. Get a Office 365 subscription, it's worth the price to get All the office products and1TB of cloud storage. I see this shift as a way to "encourage" Office 365 subscriptions. It doesn't really affect me at all.
But they are going to make sure the transition is smooth, so I guess we'll be getting free KY jelly on the mail...
The camera roll bonus existed for everyone that used onedrive on a smartphone. This wasn't a Windows Phone deal. Windows Phone just had Auto-Upload to OneDrive a bit longer.
The people actually getting slapped in the mouth are those who have been with OneDrive since thebeginning, back when they gave 25GB of Storage as standard. Microsoft changed the Standard Account sizes to 15GB and then gave them a "Loyalty" Bonus of 10GB to match their 25GB Grandfathered Accounts.
With Microsoft reverting standard accounts to 5GB, those people will literally lose 10GB instantly and they'll be stuck with 15GB Space, which is a huge downgrade; and still effectively less than Google since they don't count Standard Photos/Videos and Music against your Google Drive storage limit.
Everyone should let their voices be heard through twitter/blogs/support page/etc...
The XBO was a buggy piece of shit on release. I got one, and returned in in about 18 hours (as soon as I could manage) becuase the software was just too buggy. Instant On bugging out (controller not working after waking, making you hard reset the console to fix it) complete or partial dashboard freezes (making you have to hard reset the console), etc. It was too much to bear, and 100% reproduceable. I returned it for a PS4, and never looked back.
My average usage on home internet is higher than that, with all the streaming video and whatnot. Tethering to a phone is way too limiting. If you aren't home then what is anyone else to do. Pretty stupid, IMO. I'd get chepa DSL over being limited to phone tethering for internet access.
Google doesn't own what you upload. They do use it for machine learning purposes to improve their other products, though. That's why it's free for Standard Quality Photos/Videos. Full/Original Quality isn't free.
Google Photos basically pays for itself because you using the system advances it forward quite a bit. OneDrive doens't do that. Microsoft's business model is not the same as Google's.
I think it's about time you people grow up and stop throwing FUD towards other products/companies/ecosystems. It's given the Windows Phone community is really crap reputation and it doesn't seem like any of you guys care. You're probably a bigger reason to go to Google than the price of Cloud Storage or how they use the pictures you upload.
I called MS a few months ago to clarify, they said it shows 10TB, as soon as you go over it increases by 10TB so you would see 20TB and so on into infinity (also known as 75TB is too much for unlimited use)
They certainly aren't limiting. Windows is limiting. The bad app ecosystem is limiting. The horrible Universal Apps (and limited selection) are limiting. Really, I don't have that issue on iOS or OS X. Developers seem to be jumping on board with them pretty nicely these days. When was the last time you tried it.
I literally don't need Office, period. I just don't. I've moved everything to iWork and even though I have a Laptop with an Office 365 Personal Subscription on it, I literally *never* use it.
It's not a question of limits. It's just that Windows and Office simply don't offer anything that I need out of my devices, while Apple's ecosystem does. So yea, I'm gonna go All-In and replace my Laptop and Windows Tablet with a MBA and iPad Mini.
Why does that make you so mad?
1. The 100GB Plan on OneDrive is going away. They're replacing it with them with a 50GB Plan for $1.99 a month. Did you read the post?"
"100 GB and 200 GB paid plans are going away as an option for new users and will be replaced with a 50 GB plan for $1.99 per month in early 2016."
2. I'm not sure why people keep acting as if people care whether or not Cloud Storage space comes with Office or not, when they're buying it for the Cloud Storage. You're better off just buying Office H&S for $149 in the long run. It's way cheaper than a subscription over the long run. Subscription only makes sense for businesses. Friend of mine had a OneDrive Storage Plan that I pushed him to get a bit over a year ago cause the storage was a bit cheaper to make a cloud backup of his photo Library. I'll have him move that to Google Drive when we meet for dinner later, though. He's already an Android user, so he'll just need to purchase a cheap storage upgrade and install the Auto Backup Utility with it set to "Originals."
3. What does a Lumia or iPhone have to do with this discussion. The iPhone starts at $650 for the iPhone 6S, the 6S Plus is $750. And most people will prefer not to have to deal with SD Cards. To many people, the (clearly), app & accessory ecosystems and developer support are worth the higher price than any Windows Phone.
Plus, with the new Windows Phones being practically AT&T Exclusives, why should they care if they aren't on AT&T anyways? Rome wasn't built in a day. Don't expepct people to run to the Microsoft Store to pay $500+ for a phone just because Microsoft released a new (way overdue) flagship. I'd be surprised if half of them knew/remembered that Windows Phone still existed at this point.
I'm okay with these changes. The 1TB which comes with office 365 will be enough for me for the foreseeable future. No reason to have people crashing the system with exabytes of cat pictures.
I'm not as worried about the cut. I'll move my stuff back to google drive asap and my Lumia 950xl order asap. What worries me it's they are snooping in our files so casually like ho hum......
You don't understand, jmagwp: Microsoft wants my business. They have to convince me. This doesn't help their sales pitch at all.
Well... If they signed up for unlimited storage and were not violating any terms, then it is Microsoft's fault and not the fault of those few. People subscribe to a service expecting to be able to use it. If MS can't deliver on that, then they shouldn't offered unlimited in the first place just to reduce the capacity for everyone later on. The 15 GB free was a big thing for me. If they go back to 5 GB, I don't see much reason to choose OneDrive over competitors anymore.
This also impacts the trust to Microsoft. I'll be reluclant to subscribe to any of their offerings knowing that they'll probably scale back in the future. Huge blow to me as a customer who's well invested in OneDrive. And no, I don't have my video library or anything like that there.
This kills the windows phone
I secretly wish that the ObjEctive blog was hacked an someone posted the changes as a joke.
Is it true, that these cutbacks are only for people with Microsoft accounts? I heard MS is offering unlimited OneDrive space for Google accounts.
kidding
Google Changed it to 16MP and they compress the images, however while the size is significantly reduced the quality is only somewhat reduced. This works for most people backing up smartphone pictures. That's free. Video is also compressed and ther eare some things you should research before you back up Video to Google Photos using the Unlimited Tier. You also can't back up 4K video with it like that, that will always count against your storage (or be downscaled to 1080p, likely).
If you upload Original quality, then everything counts towards your storage.
And they ony give you 15GB.
Google Docs/Sheets/Slides do not count towards your storage. All other documents and files in Drive do.
Gmail counts against your storage, so if you're someone who uses email a lot and archives a lot of email, that will eventually become an issue especially if you use Drive heavily and back up photos/videos in original quality (and especially if you send/recieve a lot of attachments).
Google Accounts come standard with 15GB of Storage. Everything shares this, similar to iCloud. The only perk Microsoft has right now is that email does not count against your cloud storage, but they will only have 5GB of Cloud Storage and their 50GB Plan will be twice as much as Apple.
Their cloud storage offering went from looking amazing to looking like trash in one blog entry. Not everyone needs or wants Office, and a lot of people certainly don't care about Skype. $6.99/mo is a lot to pay for cloud storage for a lot of people. The fact that they bundle perks into it doens't change the fact that you're paying for Cloud Storage and never wanted those perks to begin with.
This is just them trying to sell more Office Subscriptions.
Often referred to as the "Tragedy of the Commons".
No they don't!
Mega - 50GB
Google Drive - 15
OneDrive - 5
I feel you bro.
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Because users on other platforms can use other storage providers to back up. WP users can't.
& that's why I loathe the American way.
Everyone wants to sue each other! Grow up
"just" 15TB?
This sucks. I love wp, and this is a major blow for me as I have all my photos and videos backed up. I wouldn't touch google as they technically own your photos once you back them up to google pictures.
Always be a skeptic and a minimalist when it comes to cloud or off-premises services; you are not in charge. The services are designed to lock you in to a sort of product slavery via subscription-based usage. The cloud is not the answer. Get more sophisticated in how you go about using local storage. Local storage is immediately available, not reliant on a data connection, and easier to back-up to your own local back-up device; through gaining total control of your own storage approach, you can begin to build your own "cloud" approach to always having access to your files. There are solutions outside of commercial cloud providers.
You're not far from the truth. Microsoft just like to f*ck themselves in the anus with an extra large BBC*ck.
Actually....
If you leave your 2TB drive connected to a home server with OneDrive installed, you could access all your files from OneDrive using the remote file access feature.
Not as seamless - and it would cosy you electricity....but at least you wouldn't be paying M$ for the privilege of accessing 2TB of data :)
I don't blame the users who are being accused of abusing the storage. Microsoft is guilty of using a marketing gimmick to promote Office 365. People only used what they were promised and MIcrosoft should have expected this.
What exactly did Microsoft expect? People to just store their Word docs? Now with Groove Music playing from One Drive I have planned to migrate my entire 200 GB iTunes library, which fortunately will still fit. But now I question if they will eventually consider that to be abuse as well.
Magically, it will become 5 GB next year.
You had to actively sign up for the unlimited storage. It wasn't automatic.
Perhaps that had changed. Regardless, it's gone for good now.
No Horizon for Verizon. Has quite the ring to it
given that it's still heavily in development, I'd be surprised if it were otherwise
Free users today are paying users tomorrow.
Especially with cloud storage, where peoples data needs are always increasing.
It's a bigger deal if you're Canadian and they don't offer the Bing Rewards to you.
Just do the Office365 stacking trick.
1. Buy 4x 365 personal codes
2. Add to your Office.com account
3. Sign up for a 1 month Office 365 HOME trial.
Voila...4 years of 365 Home for about £80 (or about £5 per user, per year).
Cushty
I agree 'unlimited' is illogical. For 50GB+ they should definitely charge some amount, and maximum of 20TB maybe...
But the fact is that while they've started to promote 'mobile first cloud first', and new lumias are on their way, they've announced an abrupt 2/3rd storage cut in their deals. Free is now 15 to 5 (30 to 5, if you include camera storage too). Take its derivative and it's hell of a down slope! Yes it's still more than others... but just like 'unlimited' was a catch phrase, '30 to 5' is a throw phrase. If they did the maths for previous marketing, they should've done it again too.
That's hell of news, for me, atleast. We're on a verge of truly using cloud with wm10, specially in 3rd world counties (where they can't subscribe to things because of no online purchasing, they still deal in cash), and they're going to strangle their motto.
What will they offer with a low budget phone? "We're now offering only 5GB of onedrive storage, and you cant backup your photos now. :) "
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I'm not sure if I should be happy I never had the chance to use it (due to my not living in the U.S.) or if I should be pissed of the same thing
I guess that's why they're doing so well in the cloud storage business, isn't it?
To send feedback about this directly to the OneDrive team, remember that people with the OneDrive app on their phones can probably open the app and shake the phone to bring up a feedback text box for entering your freeform comments. I just typed a rather long feedback paragraph, so I'm thinking the feedback box space is, ironically enough, "unlimited".
This really makes me mad. I made a windows central account just to show how displeased I am.
First it was my Bing account being restricted on credits which read:
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In the Bing Rewards program, we test and learn, making regular updates and refinements. We constantly make changes to the program which may include changing the number of credits that can be earned from search activities. As a part of our testing and learning, different offers may sometimes be available to different users. This helps us improve our overall program and the member experience.
We apologize for any disappointment our recent changes may have caused. Thank you for being a loyal Bing Rewards member and be sure to frequently check your dashboard to take advantage of offers to earn additional credits.
Sincerely,
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The Bing Rewards Team - http://bing.com/rewards
I am down to 5 credits a day for pc and for mobile.
I am not going to post the other little issues I have been having with my Onedrive storage already, it may make a bigger uproar. I really do understand that Microsoft is a business first. Too much change is never good. After reading this article I am not going to get the new phone, not going to continue using bing and am not going to get another office 365 subscription until they figure out what they want to do as a company. It is not fair to the customers, stock holders, and to the corporation itself.
Satya proclaimed he would turn Microsoft into a "mobile-first, cloud-first" company.
For me, you cannot do that without unlimited storage and great incentives.
Sorry to vent but all the issues I am having with M$, it makes it really hard to stay faithful to this company. I really hope PR made a mistake with this one.
My sencier appologies fot than inaproproate comment about your weight :( Sorry! I don't know why I wrote that. MS has that affect on me obviously :/ Sorry again. You look qite cute on pic.
Over and out!
They should make unlimited => something TB
*Other paid subscriptions*
Free storage, 15GB => 15GB.
And I'm happy.
15 to 5 is soooo.... Uurrgghh... Disappointing.
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What do you mean 'most normal people are not going to be impacted'?!
It is precisely those people that are!
As an example, I set my brother and sister up with OneDrive storage on their iPhone's as a bit of a Trojan horse to get them to ultimately switch to WP.
They are now going to be switching back to iCloud since their 30GB's of storage is being taken back!
Microsoft are inept. They don't seem to be able to stick to one coherent plan. All they will achieve in doing with this farce is to piss off good people that may well convert into paid subscribers as their storage fills up.
You won't win an argument with these blind fanboys who can't accept there are better services somewhere else.
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Yeah, I get to access all my music, pictures and documents from any device, even within apps. I could play my music directly. And that is what I liked about OneDrive.
It all used maximum around 15GB, and I was happy that they're allowing me 30GB.
Im not gonna buy 50GB subscription, bcoz i don't need it. So now I've to stop thinking about the good part of my device usage.
That was a BAAAD decision!
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And now you pay Google $1.99 you get twice the storage that OneDrive offers. OneDrive is about to make you pay after 5 GB. You still win with Google.
Let's all use the middle finger emoji they introduced in Windows 10 for everyone that feels aggravated by this change.
I think we can thank Apple for the 5GB base of in OneDrive... Only sheep would accept that in their right minds no one would accept that... Oh right :-(
I guess i should agree to an offer of Exchange my 1520 with LG g3
Anyone to explain why there were 800+ comments last night under this thread and now only 100+ left?
I don't (feel the same way). I don't like cloud storage anyway, so apart from having to move around a few folders (back to local storage), I'm not that much affected. Thing is: Microsoft kicked a lot of fans in the shins today at a moment they kind of want them on board for the uphill battle they seem to be facing (I'm quoting WC now). I am now looking at options I wasn't looking at this morning. I was just fine then. Why would I pay (more) if I have an alternative by combining OneDrive and Google Drive for instance (one for actual mobile stuff, one for backup) Hell of a risk, when you take away the one direct advantage that WP had for me. I don't think that Microsoft realises how many times I (and many other people) have live with the fact that I (they) have to pass on yet another useful app, for instance one that helps my disabled wife to find easily accessible buildings (shops, restaurants,...). Several for online shopping, games, magazines and banks. Available on iPhone and Android, as usual. Not Microsoft's fault per se, but a fact that can't be ignored. This won't bring people to the platform, this won't bring apps to the platform. It won't even keep people on the platform. Bad choice, anyway you flip it.
If you cheat the MS licensing, then yes you are correct.
I get not allowing unlimited since there are the cheats out there..but down to 1 TB only? Why not just make it 2 TB, that is still an awful lot.
I've got 100 GB from Google for $1.99 a month. That's what MicroSoft charges for 50 GB. Also, Google Drive stores all 'standard' photos each for free. And 5000 songs free. It works for me. The only thing I need OneDrive for is integration with my Xbox One. I wish I could get a Google Drive app on my Xbox One. Oh well.
I do like OneDrive. It's very intuitive and well designed. Honestly, if they matched Google's offerings, I'd probably switch. This move just solidifies my loyalty to Google. Google's offerings got a lot better earlier this year. Microsoft's just got a lot worse. It seems like Microsoft just doesn't want to compete.
Cloud furst. HAAAHAAA whose cloud?
I'm betting the 5 Gig limit gets moved up before the 12 months grace period ends. I still remember when a 540 megabyte hard drive came out, we thought we could never use all of it.
That was a short promotion that happened quite a while ago. It has long since cost $5 worth of Bing rewards, and it's now gone entirely from the redemption center. Unless you cheated and stacked a bunch of years, your 100GB is probably going to expire soon anyway.
Absolutely terrible. I love the free 15GB of storage and use it. OneDrive I the only thing about Windows that I've convinced others to use due to this storage availability. What a joke Microsoft. Slowly taking everything that people like or find useful.
Fucking cocksuckers
No camera roll bonus? That is my favorite part!
All we use Onedrive for is camera roll uploads but with this pricing increase, competitors are more affordable. Plus, this move by M$ has made me loath to do any more business with them. I'm on ios and would love to move to icloud or Box, however, my wife is on a Lumia 925 and the pathetic state of the Windows Phone ecosystem limits our choices. Other than Onedrive and Dropbox, are there any other official cloud storage apps for Windows Phone that feature auto photo uploads? We would be good with about 250 GB's.
All we use Onedrive for is camera roll uploads but with this pricing increase, competitors are more affordable. Plus, this move by M$ has made me loath to do any more business with them. I'm on ios and would love to move to icloud or Box, however, my wife is on a Lumia 925 and the pathetic state of the Windows Phone ecosystem limits our choices. Other than Onedrive and Dropbox, are there any other official cloud storage apps for Windows Phone that feature auto photo uploads? We would be good with about 250 GB's.
Amazon Cloud Drive. Its only $60/yr for unlimited
But even if I do "flip the reasoning", I am still faced with looking at the guy in the mirror, (me) and asking me is OneDrive WORTH the .99 cents to ME?
That is something I just can't escape. The real life value equation. If I am going to run Windows on my devices, is there a better cloud service? Not even close. (again, me talking to the guy in the mirror. Maybe you don't feel the same way)
Currently uploading 130GB to my new home in the cloud; Amazon Cloud Drive. For those who dont know, they offer unlimited for $60/yr
In that case, we have to find different solution.
Personally, I find this very dissapointing
My friends, "unlimited" is simply: Impossible
The one who trust in such a statement "unlimited Storage Space" is mad
Sorry
This is my own opinion
If you flip the reasoning, it's just as ridiculous to ask the 99 cents, since I paid lots for my devices. And another one in a few years. And another one. I'm only talking about the free space for camera roll now. Not the limitless space. And Windows 10 was not my idea by the way. If they give it for free, they have business reason to do so. It' s not a gift.
I have 130 Gb storage and I have only used 5 Gb out of it. I got all of it from bonuses, I have accounts on most of cloud storage services but since I have been using OneDrive since the beginning, I don't wanna move to other cloud services because I really like the UK and I have all my photos and docs here. No movies or music or any videos. All I wanna say is don't screw all, let the base storage be 15 Gb because I already have filled up my 5 Gb.
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Microsoft really shot themselves in the foot with this one. I have only used about 1.2TB of storage but i love the comfort of knowing that i have unlimited. Never know what the future holds. Its kinda like cell phone plans. Most people really only use around 1000 minutes, but having unlimited is reassuring, even if you never use it. Microsoft would have gained so many more customers by keeping the unlimited option. IMO that is why many actually got Office 365. Most dont actually care about word etc. Oh well. Thank god for Amazon Cloud Drive. And i am heppy to say i am their newest customer at $60/yr.
Microsoft gives with one hand takes with the other.
This is most unfortunate!!! I have been a strong proponent of OneDrive since forever, even told all my frineds to get Office 365 for the unlimited storage. Now i look like the bad guy, and do feel betrayed by Microsoft!!! The good news is the move to go unlmited did provoke their competitors to do the same, namely Amazon. I just signed up for their unlimited cloud storage for $60/yr. I just hope they actually honor and stick to their word. Im reall disapointed in Microsoft at this time. They really do not need any bad PR right now..
The unlimited storage was a stupid thing to promise anyway but dropping the free 15 GB to 5 GB is a PR disaster. Microsoft seems to be doing well but they are sure starting to act like a company running scared with all the cutbacks and clawbacks. Is Nadella a cheapskate?
But how long until your promotion runs out, and you potentially lose your files?
I have: L1520 (~$600) L2520 (~$600) SP2 (~$1200) SP4 (~$1700) Desktop (~$900) = $5000.00 of Windows (Microsoft) devices.
I'm LEAVING all of it and going away to another system because Microsoft wants .99 cents a month from me.
(Everything except the L2520 now runs Windows 10. For FREE!)
Full disclosure: I am actually unaffected since I am an Office 365 subscriber. But this is the most amazing thread I have EVER read on WC. And THAT is saying something!)
Pls keep 15gb for camera upload in windows phone
I lost my Lumia 730 2 weeks ago, was looking for a new windows smartphone.
Microsoft just gave many more reasons to choose android.
Embrace Extend Backtrack
Mine shows 10.3 TB, which always seemed like an absurd amount of space. I have 10.2 TB free space lol...
Long life to OneDrive! ^_^
I bought Office 2013, 2 Lumias, a laptop, a desktop and a tablet in the last year. Is that enough investment to complain? If not, what's the threshold? Sorry, but I really don't appreciate your generalization. I'm a small user by the way. You may not realise it, but even small and modest users don't want to be considered quantité negligable.
Very disappointed in this. I understand that unlimited storage was a bit much and many people would abuse this but to downgrade people who chose this service for the high storage options is ludacris. I think they should have left current customers who registered for unlimited storage with at least 5/10TB. The same thing happened to me with Bitcasa. Why don't company's think before promising these things. I was given 10TB to start off with and I have only used about 1TB. Im not sure now whether to stick with OneDrive or use another service.
Way to go MS. Shooting yourself in the foot again with the downgrade of the free storage.
"Nadella is a Mastermind"? Looking more and more like utter bul****t
I agree. I think the higher free cloud storage wasn't a promise. They still provide greater free storage than the competition.
So, because of a "few" they have limited ALL the users?
I don't buy in such nonsense.
This way MS will eventually be downgraded to actual micro state.
So, lets mobilize and start telling MS about our displeasure. Is the Feedback app the right medium?
I have that "loyalty bonus" too, if that's what you call it. I just hope they let us keep it.
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