All of you are using the words "abuse". No. They were using exactly what Microsoft marketed and sold them, UNLIMITED cloud storage. This is completely on Microsoft for offering something they regretted.
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Microsoft Reduces OneDrive Storage for Office 365 and Free Users, Eliminates Unlimited Option
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Why? Are Microsoft not making enough money already? It further adds to their bad name....
So you'd be okay with people abusing something you give away for free, I doubt it very much. Plenty of other companies have had to pull back data allowances etc because a few have abused the system.
That was my first thought! How did they know what types of files were being stored? It could've been giant text files filled with zeros. If the files are properly encrypted at the server, there should be _no_ way for Microsoft to have known what kind of files were stored.
Really makes you wonder just how honest they are being.
I do trust Dropbox (used for 7 years) now, and I do trust Apple (used for 15 years). But the trust only goes as far as their reputation, which remains golden in my eyes, until it's not.
MS is close to be successful due surface pro and etc...but making this move...they are Apple wannabe.
Why shouldn't they cut back the freebies if people are abusing it.
Seriously? Absolutely nobody at Microsoft during any of the spec meetings ever considered the possibility that people would use it as a backup service? Especially after watching Gmail and Google Drive be turned into exactly that? This is not a broken user problem, this is a broken process problem. This idea never should have left the whiteboard.
They offered unlimited storage, so don't know why they cry now about fair use. Classic bait and switch by Microsoft.
??? The unlimited storage tier wasn't free. It was promised as part of an Office 365 subscription. I'm not saying that 75TB wasn't excessive, but how does reducing storage on the free tier tie in with that abuse? Makes no sense.
The truth is that OneDrive is known to be THE slowest online sync/storage service, and they must be having issues getting performance increased at scale. They made a mistake in over promising what they could reasonably provide and now are backtracking and blaming the "abusers." Pretty pathetic if you asked me.
Unlimited is just a marketing gimmick. After the marketing campaign is over it becomes limited again. Just as in telco.
Think about it - How does 1 person or even a family accrue 75TB of data?
This was something nefarious going on with those accounts. And I'm betting the "UNLIMITED" that you agreed to says somewhere in the fine print - "Unlimited for Office 365 Files" or for "Personal Data" not the entirety of your neighborhoods PirateBay downloads archive.
I didn't trust them - and I gladly pay for Dropbox,
and now I can feel confident I had an ok gut feeling.
That same gut feeling tells me I won't be using dropbox in a year though.. but more about that on another site!
and now I can feel confident I had an ok gut feeling.
That same gut feeling tells me I won't be using dropbox in a year though.. but more about that on another site!
THEN MICROSOFT SHOULDN'T HAVE CALLED IT UNLIMITED.
It's the tech meme now offer a great product get everyone on board recommending your every pore. Then the bait and switch comes, wack adverts, sell data, offer things for a price that were free, change tiers and reduce the functionality to its minimum to get back the free period they forked out for.
I'm sure bait and switch is illegal in business why is it any different if it's a digital product?
MS is making up ********, you can't say he people are using our unlimited stuff then change the free limit by a factor of three! That makes no sense if your issue is with space abuse. Unlimited in advertising I thought was banned or advised by companies to be very bad form and creates customer resentment.
I'm sure bait and switch is illegal in business why is it any different if it's a digital product?
MS is making up ********, you can't say he people are using our unlimited stuff then change the free limit by a factor of three! That makes no sense if your issue is with space abuse. Unlimited in advertising I thought was banned or advised by companies to be very bad form and creates customer resentment.
This may well just be deduction on the part of Microsoft. They may not be able to see the data, but there will probably be logs of transfer times etc. Spotting a couple of hundred 5-6GB files would look reasonably likely to be an HD movie collection, based off iTunes downloads size. I'm sure there's a telltale size for TV eps, especially if they appear to get uploaded in batches of around 22. And the same for music collections.
MS likely also log the different devices which access the service, and so if may be possible to detect that say 6 devices have each uploaded about 1TB, which would suggest multiple machines backing up.
The 75TB event is just a story for PR, so they don't need to be absolutely certain what the data was. An educated guess will do.
I'm not reaching to defend MS, just pointed out that likely any cloud service could probably do the same deduction so there's no point switching over it.
Well let them be put off. What are they gonna do about it? Be upset because they lost storage they weren't paying for and decide not to use MS's storage anymore? I'm pretty sure that's what MS is hoping for so they can get real users that are willing to pay and not abusers. I wondered how long it was going to take before they gave up all that extra storage offered basically for free.
I have been using OneDrive since the days of Live Mesh. They say the Camera Roll bonus will go away next year, I wonder if my 10GB "Loyalty Bonus" from those days will be renegged on as well. Oh well, if they do; it's an easy decision to take the money that was going to MS and sent it to Apple for a 200GB iCloud. Makes backing up my iDevices easier 
How is it "free" if you're a paying subscriber??? Nothing is "free" including things called "free". What's disgusting here is yet it's another example of a company using BS MARKETING ("Unlimited") and then turning around and saying, "Well we never expected anyone to actually USE the space for anything. We just wanted it to sound good!" Unlimited means unlimited. Obviously, they didn't learn that lesson from the cell phone companies that were all jumping on board unlimited storage for your smart phone and then quickly realized how utterly STUPID it was to even try it.
Here we have the former King of the computer Universe saying they can't afford to provide hard drive space for the Cloud. Maybe that's why they try to jack everyone's Internet bandwidth with Windows 10 to distribute it on YOUR dime instead of theirs? My respect for Microsoft was always poor and now it's even worse. The sad thing is my respect for Apple has gone the same direction since Steve left and I had issues with a lot of the choices he made as well, but at least he offered innovative products and Macs and iOS were ahead of the game back then instead of playing catch-up now to M$ and/or Chrome features. People used to copy Apple. Now Apple copies them.
It just feels like someone else could jump in at this point and take over everything if only they had a mature OS and a way to get App support without the chicken/egg situation. Linux seems like the obvious choice, but their problem is too damn many distributions with competing standards gumming up the works. If Linus (the only one that could even POSSIBLY do it at this point) put his foot down and demanded a "Primary Standard" or something of that sort for Linux distributions that keep all the major things in common (and let the loonies who want new package managers all the time, etc. to do their own thing in No Man's Land) you'd have a good starting point. You have your choice of hardware and driver support and games are starting to appear courtesy of Valve pushing it. You just need to make all commercial software "Just Work" across those "Primary" distributions. That is what commercial developers have needed all along. Valve has had more success than anyone there as they demand distributions comply to their one choice (Ubuntu basis) rather than try to support every two-bit distribution out there. Until Linux gets the "big" Apps like Photoshop, Office and even iTunes, there's a huge disincentive to just say the hell with it and get Windows or OS X (i.e. who wants to wait another 20 years to see those appear at a tiny trickle speed?) Yeah, some users don't "need/want" any of that stuff, but they're not the typical user that demands commercial software.
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opps..,... someone was taught a lesson how to manage storage better... 75TB wow ..people really upload that much ??
Its a cloud service not "your" PC internal hard drive. Although some probably think it's their 'home away from home' type motive.. The amount u'd pay for that u can pick up several hard drives.
Its a cloud service not "your" PC internal hard drive. Although some probably think it's their 'home away from home' type motive.. The amount u'd pay for that u can pick up several hard drives.
Semantics. Most people talk about gettings in to the eco system, how much hardware you reckon they’d sell if it didn't have iOS on the phone? Software is just as important.
I hope some of you guys aren’t the same ones that said AT&T throttling you was still an unlimited service.
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I'm glad they removed the unlimited tier. I think they need to invest more time and money improving the functionality and performance of OneDrive instead of its capacity. I've always considered it necessary to pay for and use Dropbox because of its superior performance even though I have access to unlimited OneDrive via my Office365 subscription.
However, i'm not sure reducing the free tier down to a mediocre 5gb is a good move.
However, i'm not sure reducing the free tier down to a mediocre 5gb is a good move.
Looks like they are making adjustments and using a few users as scapegoats. These unlimited plans are as believable as unlimited data plans....
Their 1TB storage with 365 subscription is still very good value compared to apples 1tb iCloud offering.
My problem is that with all my apple devices 200gb is not enough and 1Tb is too expansive
Their 1TB storage with 365 subscription is still very good value compared to apples 1tb iCloud offering.
My problem is that with all my apple devices 200gb is not enough and 1Tb is too expansive
So you don't encrypt your stuff before uploading ANYWHERE to the internet, and instead make a snarky comment?
Your input = no thanks!