




This makes the new OneDrive look like this:

Microsoft OneDrive





Source: OneDrive Blog



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  • Glaurung - Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - link

    Jump through a few hoops and you can upgrade any dropbox account to 5 or 6gb easily (3gb bonus for downloading their photo app, 1gb for downloading the OS X mail app that they bought for some inscrutable reason). Invite a few of your alternative email addresses to join dropbox and that can go higher. Yes it's more stingy than other services, but the number of mobile apps that have dropbox support baked in is huge. Reply
  • melgross - Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - link

    I don't believe that Microsoft did this because of the "sins" of the few. This is just an excuse. Otherwise, what does a few people using many TBs of storage have to do with cutting the minimum levels?cwhat DOS it have to do with eliminating the camera role? What does it have to do with eliminating the other tears of service, and having a new one at higher prices?

    I'm pretty sure that Microsoft found that what they were doing was costing them bucks, and they didn't like that, so they went to this. People should understand that storage costs about the same for Microsoft as it does for other vendors. Both Amazon and Google do t care if they make a profit on this or not, so they offer it at very low prices. Apple does care, so they charge a bit more. Microsoft cares as well, but they thought they could do it. They obviously found that they couldn't, but, for some reason, don't want to admit that, so they're finding an excuse.

    Stupid. They should just tell the truth, people would be happier.
  • freeskier93 - Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - link

    Oh yeah, as a non paying customer you're really going to show Microsoft by removing all your data and not using OneDrive... C'mon, the only reason these cloud storage services have free tiers is in hopes you'll then upgrade to a payed service. If you don't upgrade then they couldn't give a shit if you go somewhere else. You're not paying, you're not of any benefit to them.

    I suspect there are very few people using just OneDrive by itself, majority of users are O365 subscribers, which this really doesn't affect. It's likely the turnover rate of free users is super low, which is why they are throttling back the free space. Microsoft doesn't really lose anything here.
  • K_Space - Thursday, November 5, 2015 - link

    Actually as a case in point I have moved completley from OneDrive. Simply put: free users are potential paying users. Screw them like this and you can be sure they are no more. I am now PAYING for Amazon Glacier. Smart businesses are the ones who eye up the potentially paying customer. Reply
  • K_Space - Thursday, November 5, 2015 - link

    and judging by the backlash on the net; they havent just lost the potentially paying users but also a number those who are on their paid tiers. Reply
  • Bob Todd - Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - link

    Exactly this. If the reason for the changes are really the 1% who are abusing the system they are handling this all wrong. If they wanted to offer "unlimited" in the same sense that fake "unlimited" plans exist from telcos and cable companies, they should have just put something in the TOS about "reasonable use" and carved out the abusers separately as exceptions. I'm sure automatic usage reporting is already setup, tying that to automated warning emails and account restrictions should be trivial from a development perspective. Punishing only the abusers would not be overly burdensome from a labor/cost perspective. Instead they chose to create a PR nightmare and reverse all the positive momentum they built with the unlimited announcement. Reply
  • lmcd - Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - link

    This reduction actually just screwed me, and I'm probably going to quit using Microsoft products over it. Reply
  • Da W - Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - link

    A gazillion people yelled they would quit MS product in the past years, yet the stock is still up. Reply
  • nico_mach - Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - link

    Because they still sell to businesses, where there is no choice. Reply
  • WhisperingEye - Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - link

    You have at least a year, before you get "screwed". I'm not sure how having data and moving it to cloud storage, and being told to take it back, all for free, "screws you" maybe you should keep your data local, oh, that's not free, hmmm... Reply

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