Doesn't surprise me. It runs on Windows and Windows is slow and unreliable. It has 0 place in a public facing service. And yet MS trans their business on it.
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Microsoft Reduces OneDrive Storage for Office 365 and Free Users, Eliminates Unlimited Option
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Doesn't surprise me. It runs on Windows and Windows is slow and unreliable. It has 0 place in a public facing service. And yet MS trans their business on it.
Don't be so naive. You'll find that any internet content/service provider will have full access to your information/data. Apple would typically receive dozens of requests each day to make a users data available should a user be under criminal investigation for example.
Agencies like GCHQ have pretty much open access to everything (and I do mean literally everything) that passes through the internet anyway, encrypted or not.
if unlimited users were using too much, then why reduce free users as well? How was it not foreseeable to anyone that some would abuse it? I think they're just monetizing the service.
The only people who are upset are the people who were using OneDrive for free. They are not entitled to anything so they have no basis for complaint when their free storage gets limited to 5GB. If they want more, then pay like the rest of us & stop crying.
1) Microsoft called it unlimited storage. And as far as I know they did not put limits on what it could be used for.
2) I don't know that it was a small number taking advantage of their terms to store videos, backups etc, I haven't seen any numbers attached to the claims. It may have been a significant number.
3) I don't trust ANY of the cloud suppliers to not look at what is stored there, and that includes Apple. Apple says the right things about privacy but 2 days, 2 months, or 2 years from now things could change. And saying you respect privacy doesn't mean that is what you are really doing. That said, I trust Apple more than any of the other Cloud storage companies. AND that said, I don't use any of them.
2) I don't know that it was a small number taking advantage of their terms to store videos, backups etc, I haven't seen any numbers attached to the claims. It may have been a significant number.
3) I don't trust ANY of the cloud suppliers to not look at what is stored there, and that includes Apple. Apple says the right things about privacy but 2 days, 2 months, or 2 years from now things could change. And saying you respect privacy doesn't mean that is what you are really doing. That said, I trust Apple more than any of the other Cloud storage companies. AND that said, I don't use any of them.
This my friends is yet another reason why I'll NEVER trust Cloud services. They go out of business, change the terms on you, and hold your stuff hostage if you don't pay them. By the same token, they are changing the terms of the FREE service, so people don't have a right to complain.
MS is a criminal just as much as Kim Dotcom. They have been convicted of that in the US - see the MS Antitrust trial in the 90's - early 2000's.
Totally agree. You give people an inch and they'll take a hundred miles and then be "outraged," if a company puts a stop to it. Even though it ends up "ruining" it for everyone else.
That's pretty much human nature for most people to be selfish & greedy. It's sad.
Check out the app called Arq 4 - Use it to encrypt anything you send to the cloud. I bought it, its amazing.
Reading the Twitter feeds of Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley....this will be a PR disaster for Microsoft.
Don't offer unlimited if it's truly not unlimited or you can't handle it.
Don't offer unlimited if it's truly not unlimited or you can't handle it.
Worse yet, calling it unlimited and then blaming the users when they actually use more then they want them to rather than admit they made a huge mistake by offering unlimited storage in the first place.
The bigger stab in the back with this change is also dropping the free tier from a reasonable 30gb back down to 5gb and discontinuing the 15gb photo roll all while increasing the cost of their first tier storage options.
640kb should be enough for everyone, yo!
EDIT: The fact that their own blog has been taken offline should tell you everything you need to know about their scaling ability. Nice job MS... nice job.
I was one of the people that wanted to take them up on their UNLIMITED plan.
I paid $99.99 for their "Unlimited" storage back near the end of JULY.
After just 3 months, they are eliminating that?
This does seem like a bait and switch.
I paid $99.99 for their "Unlimited" storage back near the end of JULY.
After just 3 months, they are eliminating that?
This does seem like a bait and switch.
Respectfully, why is it abuse to use an advertised selling feature logically? Why have unlimited storage and not use it? Sorry, but Microsoft's move almost smacks of bait and switch.
like any other listed company MS is trying to make money off of their products - lol
Wow, I just used that last phrase (hadn't read too many comments yet, but there must be a lot of people who feel as we do).
Church or not you are a business. Buy a plan if you need unlimited backups.
Apple has not full access to your iCloud data (they DO have access to your information for sure).
Apple can't make user data available even under criminal investigation .... as of today.
Don't piss on my head to sell me an umbrella.
How does this affect business subscribers?
I sold my company (and my CEO) on switching to OneDrive for Business because of Unlimited Storage. It was the only thing that made us see the value in dollar-per-GB. Now I have to explain, nope sorry, they changed their minds and now it is only 1 TB.
Anyone defending this should really get off the internet forever. Do you believe I should pay the same amount for 1 TB of storage as I was for Unlimited Storage?
I sold my company (and my CEO) on switching to OneDrive for Business because of Unlimited Storage. It was the only thing that made us see the value in dollar-per-GB. Now I have to explain, nope sorry, they changed their minds and now it is only 1 TB.
Anyone defending this should really get off the internet forever. Do you believe I should pay the same amount for 1 TB of storage as I was for Unlimited Storage?