It looks like the wait is over for Office 365 subscribers. The unlimited OneDrive storage that Microsoft promised has officially started rolling out. The news comes from an email that the company started sending out to those who initially signed onto the waiting list for the increased storage.
As of right now, it looks like the "unlimited storage" is actually a free 10 TB, but its doubtful that many will reach that cap. If you do, however, Microsoft says that all you'll have to do is request additional storage for your account and ye shall receive!
The full text of the email can be found below:
Ask and you shall receive! We have taken you off the waiting list and your Office 365 account now has access to unlimited OneDrive storage.
We added 10 TB of OneDrive storage to your account to get you started during this initial rollout. If you reach your capacity and need additional storage, or have OneDrive questions, just email us here.
The unlimited storage will eventually roll out to all Office 365 subscribers, but it's a good sign that it's starting to come to those who signed up late last month.
Have you gotten a storage bump? Let us know in the comments.
Thanks to Mitchell for the tip!
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Unlimited OneDrive storage starts rolling out to Office 365 subscribers
I stumbled on this article researching unlimited storage with an Office 365 account. I have had an office subscription for a while now and I do not have 10TB of storage. My account shows 1TB.
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This is very smart because users will not upload 10 times of files when they got 10TB, and it looks good from the ad, Unlimited!
My student accounts didn't get any mail
If I'm subscribed to OneDrive, does it mean I'm eligible for this?
(Paid subscription of course)
Sweet Offer BUT Human has that natural habit of misusing facility and forcing to suffer the future generations/customers. Please use it as much as necessary BUT don't misuse it.
Wow! That's ridiculously fantastic!
Now all we need for Verizon is Unlimited data back!
This us old news. I received the email and extra storage the day it was announced
Insanely Awesome! Went from 7, to 10 (+3GB Camera Roll), to 30 (+20GB bonus subscription for a year), to 38 (OneDrive upped to 15GB basic storage plan), to 1.04TB (got Office365) to now 10TB+ ....all within a year. Respectively, the increases are 43%, 200%, 26%, 2695% and now even more....all within a year!!! Now i just need uncapped internet
I received my additional storage earlier in the week but got the email yesterday.
Got mine just in time to use it to store ~1500 10Mb+ invaded from my latest photo shoot!
Sorry Dropbox! To little, too late!
This may encourage me to subscribe to Office 365 (emphasis on "may").
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I can see many people filling 10TB. This is a marketing strategy to get people into Office 365.
already received mine 10 days ago.
One year and 20 days! That's how long it takes to fill the storage of you'd be constantly uploading with full speed to OneDrive.
It's so stupid slow that I even can't watch my Lumia backups. You have to wait about 5 minutes to watch one minute.
OneDrive turned to cheap crap compared to other courses clouds.
Where can I subscribe for office 365 with 10 TB, everywhere I look I see 1TB per user.
They've only just begun rolling out unlimited storage so it's not showing as part of the subscription details yet. Once the roll out is complete, they'll update the subscription options to include this.
So, bearing that in mind, if you to take out a 365 subscription, you will automatically be given your 10TB once it's available for you.
Thanks for your reply!!
Good-bye 9,99e/month Xbox live subscription, welcome 6.99e/month office + infinite one drive storage for infinite music.
Is there a limit on number of files? 10 TB is great but for example may i have bilions of small files on it?
I got it a week ago. It's wonderful.
Does anyone know whether the 5000 items per library limit still applies? I also hope that the OneDrive for Business desktop client is improved urgently.
There are several known undesirable issues. One is that it effectively doubles the amount of space needed on your local storage by building a massive cache in your appdata folder.
Then there's the issue where sometimes the client spikes CPU usage for no apparent reason until it crashes. There are more but bottom line is that this still makes OneDrive Personal a much better product.
In contrast with the office for ios, office for wp is shit! Why mother doesn't love her child but the neighbor's children?
Because noone plays with this child...
So they give windows 365 free to apple users but for us WP users, we have to pay, even after we stay LOYAL to MS by buying their phones!? Makes no sense to me. Aggravating too.
I think apple only gets some 365 features for free and still have to pay if they want the whole thing. But I don't know
You're right on that one. They've pretty much just made a few features that were previously only for 356 subscribers free for everyone. If anyone wants to use all the features on the iOS version, including unlimited one drive storage, they still need a paid 365 subscription
Wow you have to pay for your Office in your Windows Phone? Wait what? Yup, Office is FREE to all of us in our mobile devices WP, Windows RT, iOS and Android users...
Does anyone know if you sign your phone into your 365 business account whether it uploads the photos there?
My phone currently has the main account as my personal outlook one.
Thanks
Got mine today. Satisfying seeing I have 9.7 terabytes available
Not yet, still just 1Tb OneDrive on my account which I haven't come close yet.
I got mine!
P0rn. LOL
You sir, know how to use OneDrive.
I haven't gotten mine yet...
Yep. Had it for several days now.
I'm office 365. This is a gift and I appreciate it.
Is this for O365 University users too?
Yes! :) I have had unlimited storage since the day they announced it actually, no need to sign up for anything or wait for an email in my case. You should either have it already, or will see it pretty soon :)
Got mine and started moving all my documents, music, and pictures to OneDrive. I really don't care too much about my files on shared server plus UNLIMITED STORAGE!!!
Recieved my email have unlimited as soon as i use up the 10T
Got my email. Signed up for 365 just for this. Now running back up on my OneDrive :)
Where can I subscribe for office 365 with 10 TB, everywhere I look I see 1TB per user.
Yup!
Do you lose your unlimited storage if your 365 subscription expires? What I mean is, if your subscription expires, you just lose ability to add more stuff to the cloud but keep all your files that were previously uploaded correct. This is how my Google Drive operates.
If you don't keep your subscription, you need to pay for what you use. Cheaper just to keep office.
Yes. You don't lose your files. Just can't save more until you get below your limit.
Should give to all windows phone users, rather than iphone office365 users.
Say you get the subscription with 5 users, can they share the unlimited space? That would be nice to be able to do that.
I thought they all got 1tb before.
They each get unlimited space... Plus you can set up a share folder if you all want to be hitting the one spot - except that all goes against one persons unlimited :)
Yeah, so each get unlimited where as before it was 1tb. :)
Now I just need to reorganize my files all to the cloud. Great now its more work :)
I got mine. WooHoo!!!
Time to download the Internet.
Yup, got mine. Thanx Microsoft :)
Don't got mines yet
I've had the 10TB since the day you published the original article with the link to request them.
Yeah,I got mine today, don't know if I ever reach that cap. The most space consuming is music and video. And with my current internet speed, or isn't feasible way.
Received my email today! Now, I care not what dropbox does. My next request is encryption.
Seems more spacious!
Received it 5 days ago after jumping the line.
How do u get it if ur personal OD account is not the same email address as ur office365?
If it's Office 365 Personal: Nothing you can do aside from either migrating your data from your personal OneDrive to your Office 365 account, or canceling Office 365 and instead opting to use it on your personal account.
If using Office 365 Home: Simply share your benefits with your personal OneDrive account, you're good to go.
No, i have office365 from work. Was hoping to take advantage of the unlimited on my personal OD account which is configured on all my domain computers with Win8.1. I would think there would be a way to link the two accounts so that you can take advantage of this offer.
I gots mines!
Just got my email. Love all the storage! Now I just need to find junk to fill it with.
Got mine too.
Wait, additional storage with request through an email? No separate web page or activation page something like that? How are they going to handle so many mails? Given that they also get several other mails, it must be really prioritised.
Given how few people will even reach the 10TB cap and therefore need more storage: I think it's fine for now.
Honestly, the only reason Microsoft did this was because they probably noticed people were using so little of the 1TB allotment, so they just said, "We might as well offer 'unlimited' storage, because so few people are ever going to exceed 100GB that it'll be well worth our while to advertise our subscribers get unlimited storage."
Yes, it worked out, every one I know prefers Onedrive, even those who are not into Microsoft ecosystem.
Wish I could say the same, but because my high school requires us to use Google Docs, everyone is hooked on those.
Thankfully, most my teachers are more than willing to let me submit stuff with OneDrive but there have been a couple of times where I've been forced to use Google Docs and Google Drive with the student accounts the county gives us.
My god does Google Docs suck. Google Drive is pretty decent, but Google Docs need to die.
Yes... I hear people screeching that Google docs is going to "kill off" because it's just so amazing but from my experience, it is significantly lacking
It really is a frustrating experience. It's so quirky, the tools are severely lacking and aren't displayed in the most intuitive manner.
The iOS and Android Google Docs apps are actually pretty ok, but Office Online beats the web version of Google Docs.
Yeah, I hate Google docs.
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I got mine! :)
*waits for Lumia Denim to start rolling out*
*Waits for the year to start rolling out*
I am already having it.. I heard news that, after latest update of extras+info update it is showing lumia denim instead cyan...;) so technically i am having denim...
@Sandeep Sunny. Screenshot or it didn't happen.
Stupid comment, OneDrive is a service, Denim is a firmware... -_-
I was wondering how they were going to roll this out. Smart