If you’re a Microsoft OneDrive user, you’re likely used to getting some pretty generous storage limits. For example, Office 365 subscribers unlimited space for whatever they wanted to use it for. Those days are now over. Microsoft has announced that it’s reducing the limit to 1 TB, citing abuse:
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. Instead of focusing on extreme backup scenarios, we want to remain focused on delivering high-value productivity and collaboration experiences that benefit the majority of OneDrive users.
The 100 GB and 200 GB plans are being eliminated for new users and will be replaced with a 50 GB plan for $1.99 a month, which will launch in early 2016. Free OneDrive users will see their storage decreased from 15 GB to 5 GB, with the 15 GB camera roll storage bonus also being eliminated. These changes will also roll out in early 2016. Users will have up to a year to get down under the new caps.
My $0.02 worth? Advertising an unlimited service and then yanking it when people abuse it will rub those who did nothing wrong the wrong way. But if Microsoft goes after only those who abuse the service, their defense is going to be “hey, you said it’s unlimited.” And I am guessing that the status quo is not an option. Thus they’re caught in the classic dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t situation. I wouldn’t want to be the product owner for OneDrive at Microsoft because this decision has likely made him really unpopular.
Another thing. How would they know about “entire movie collections” being stored? That kind of implies that they were snooping around. Now I am not naive enough to expect privacy on a cloud service run by a third party. But the fact that Microsoft knew what was being stored kind of took me aback.
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Microsoft Slashes OneDrive Storage Limits Because Of Abuse
If you’re a Microsoft OneDrive user, you’re likely used to getting some pretty generous storage limits. For example, Office 365 subscribers unlimited space for whatever they wanted to use it for. Those days are now over. Microsoft has announced that it’s reducing the limit to 1 TB, citing abuse:
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. Instead of focusing on extreme backup scenarios, we want to remain focused on delivering high-value productivity and collaboration experiences that benefit the majority of OneDrive users.
The 100 GB and 200 GB plans are being eliminated for new users and will be replaced with a 50 GB plan for $1.99 a month, which will launch in early 2016. Free OneDrive users will see their storage decreased from 15 GB to 5 GB, with the 15 GB camera roll storage bonus also being eliminated. These changes will also roll out in early 2016. Users will have up to a year to get down under the new caps.
My $0.02 worth? Advertising an unlimited service and then yanking it when people abuse it will rub those who did nothing wrong the wrong way. But if Microsoft goes after only those who abuse the service, their defense is going to be “hey, you said it’s unlimited.” And I am guessing that the status quo is not an option. Thus they’re caught in the classic dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t situation. I wouldn’t want to be the product owner for OneDrive at Microsoft because this decision has likely made him really unpopular.
Another thing. How would they know about “entire movie collections” being stored? That kind of implies that they were snooping around. Now I am not naive enough to expect privacy on a cloud service run by a third party. But the fact that Microsoft knew what was being stored kind of took me aback.
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