I got all my friends and family to use OneDrive camera roll backup b/c you get 30gb (15+15). Now they're taking it from 30gb to 5gb. What *******s
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Microsoft Reduces OneDrive Storage for Office 365 and Free Users, Eliminates Unlimited Option
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We are right in the middle of a migration at work.
Microsoft sales reps came out to convince us to switch to them.
We were SO EXCITED to switch from our cramped storage to their UNLIMITED option.
Us: Is it really unlimited?
Them: YES.
The number of people we are migrating is a 5-digit number. That's a lot of people. This took a lot of convincing of lots of people in various departments. We finally signed a BSA with Microsoft and started migrations a few weeks ago.
...and now Microsoft decides to change it? They aren't just changing things, they are nerfing things hard.
They are setting the clock back and have now made themselves the worst option for cloud storage. That's not good for users, and that is definitely not good for their business contracts.
Unbelievable a company like microsoft doesn't know getting into this the word unlimited would be abused. In what world are there none of these type of people who consume as much as they can given a chance justifying their behavior because it was offered to them as such. You'd think there should have been at least a few people on their upper management team with an ounce of common sense?
Yup and Apple at one time offered. .Mac email address for free, then they turned around and started charging for it (yes they finally when back to free with iCloud). My point is companies offer free stuff to entice you. Unlimited [insert service here] is not sustainable, whether you're talking about storage, or bandwidth. Just look at the carriers that have offered unlimited.
How can they deal with the abusers and still offer unlimited storage? As usual, a few jerks ruined a good thing. At least they'll get what they deserve.
People are really naive if they think ALL companies with cloud services don't sometimes look at what people are putting up on their cloud drives - especially if they are uploading large amounts of stuff. It screams "piracy" to them and considering how tight piracy laws are these companies become liable for stuff that's stored on their servers. I'm sure they have software that detects illegal stuff - even if they don't physically look.
I love how all the corporations like Microsoft and Comcast always give the middle school teacher response when they make bad decisions. Now now class one of you interrupted me so you all have to sit in timeout... There's no feeling like being lectured by a company you're paying.
wait, so they 'abused' an unlimited plan? How can you abuse an unlimited plan for a backup service?
I don't have it btw, but MS was stupid in thinking people wouldn't backup everything they own if they didn't set limitations, everything is digital nowadays. MS just wanted the publicity offing the only unlimited ones and it bite their butt. I can smell a class action suit in the near future. Most be horrible for anyone that overpassed their new tiers, all those uploads and wasted time.
lol you should stop living in the 90's.
I have in total about 300 digital legal movies, many came free with BD purchases, People have all their cd collections on mp3 nowadays, photos even from phones are big nowadays, its super easy to get your collection in hundreds of gigabytes and I can go on and on.
The issue here was the cost of keeping up so much storage, they weren't prepared and probably made them lose on the product they were pushing with the offer.
As an Office 365 Home subscriber, I've never seen an unlimited storage option. I've always been on 1TB, which apparently, I will keep. So, I can understand getting rid of unlimited since nowadays, the idiots of the human race tend to ruin it for everyone else.
What sucks for MS, who is trying to get people to embrace Windows 10, is reducing the OneDrive when they've got all their systems on tablets, phones, and PC's backing up to OneDrive!!! "Hey, let's integrate Windows 10 and OneDrive closely, get people on it, then cut their storage!!". What a concept.
So those that are getting cut get a free one year Office 365? Doesn't that come with 1TB of storage? So instead of getting cut, they get an INCREASE???
What sucks for MS, who is trying to get people to embrace Windows 10, is reducing the OneDrive when they've got all their systems on tablets, phones, and PC's backing up to OneDrive!!! "Hey, let's integrate Windows 10 and OneDrive closely, get people on it, then cut their storage!!". What a concept.
So those that are getting cut get a free one year Office 365? Doesn't that come with 1TB of storage? So instead of getting cut, they get an INCREASE???
The way you can abuse an all you can eat buffet. It's meant in the sense of functioning to allow a regular person their fill, but of a number of competitive esters show up every day and go through most of what is offered really quickly without leaving much then it's no longer sustainable to offer all you can eat and the buffet drops that offer.
It's interesting how trust is somehow tied to pure subjective individual opinion of products and marketing not being creative or useful enough to someone.
Well… fsck them! I may be unemployed, but I'm not stupid, nor that poor that I can't afford a monthly subscription. And I still do need a decent amout of cloud storage to keep my most recent freelance work and all academic stuff…
I'm probably switching to iCloud's 50 GB paid tier (which, incredibly, is now half the price of M$'s offering), and ditching both OneDrive and Dropbox altogether (at least after my University-paid Office 365 subscription expires, of course).
Unlike with other services (like e-mail, contacts, calendars, heck, even OSes and app stores), which are much more sticky and hard/expensive to migrate from, switching cloud storage services is but a drag'n'drop affair, and M$ is about to learn that the hard way…
I'm probably switching to iCloud's 50 GB paid tier (which, incredibly, is now half the price of M$'s offering), and ditching both OneDrive and Dropbox altogether (at least after my University-paid Office 365 subscription expires, of course).
Unlike with other services (like e-mail, contacts, calendars, heck, even OSes and app stores), which are much more sticky and hard/expensive to migrate from, switching cloud storage services is but a drag'n'drop affair, and M$ is about to learn that the hard way…
Yes they can. It all sits on servers they manage, either in their data centres or on third party storage they lease. If required, your data can be accessed.
Apple post some information on their website such as this:
http://www.apple.com/uk/privacy/government-information-requests/
Yes, they 'carefully' review. Ultimately, once a request comes in, it's usually granted. As for the backdoor in any of their products, they don't need to give a 'backdoor' to an agency (although many companies do concede to Government demands). Information passed over the internet is all intercepted & archived. Here in the UK we are far, far worse than our US counterparts for snooping. In fact, when the US agencies are denied a request, they just come to us, it's called "collect & share". Our vast array of data archive servers contain every persons entire digital history & archive. This is the backdoor.
Snooping is far, far more sophisticated than people realise. It's like no ones considered that the very firmware on their computers internal components hasn't been compromised in some way to open a backdoor into your system. Well, it's more of a tunnel than a backdoor. At least a door can be closed...
Okay, so I have been in the habit of defending and even promoting Microsoft lately.... But, I cannot do it in this case. Similar to the cell phone carriers who offer unlimited plans and then complain when people actually use large amounts of data (i.e. T-Mobile, ATT, etc.).
I mean, these companies are offering UNLIMITED data... Then complain when people do not even come anywhere near approaching unlimited (i.e. infinite)? 75 TB is nothing compared to theoretical infinite. They could have just said "unlimited" but if you need more than 2 TB or some number, you request additional space. I use another service that does this.
However, I don't trust Microsoft... They claim they are doing this because of some people using 75 TB of data. Yet they have cut the plans for everyone. If they were truly lowering the limit due to these offenders, they would just cap it at 2 TB or something for "unlimited" users. But they aren't. They are lowering it across the board, which shows that it really isn't about the upper end of the spectrum, they want to cut costs everywhere and blame it on these offenders.
They are cheating the consumers yet again. Go to hell Microsoft.
I mean, these companies are offering UNLIMITED data... Then complain when people do not even come anywhere near approaching unlimited (i.e. infinite)? 75 TB is nothing compared to theoretical infinite. They could have just said "unlimited" but if you need more than 2 TB or some number, you request additional space. I use another service that does this.
However, I don't trust Microsoft... They claim they are doing this because of some people using 75 TB of data. Yet they have cut the plans for everyone. If they were truly lowering the limit due to these offenders, they would just cap it at 2 TB or something for "unlimited" users. But they aren't. They are lowering it across the board, which shows that it really isn't about the upper end of the spectrum, they want to cut costs everywhere and blame it on these offenders.
They are cheating the consumers yet again. Go to hell Microsoft.
It was 1 TB, then they made a big deal out of moving to Unlimited, now its back to 1 TB.
At least, for business users. I know not about personal OneDrive.
And why 1 TB? They are going to get a ton of flack for this. If they had to do this, it should have been something more like 5 or 10 TB.
They whine about the people using 75 TB. Well...are the people using 5 TB also "abusing" the Unlimited Storage you offer?
This is just disgusting.
They whine about the people using 75 TB. Well...are the people using 5 TB also "abusing" the Unlimited Storage you offer?
This is just disgusting.
You'd be surprised what companies calls "Unlimited" and tag on this "Fair Usage" crap. Check Vonage for example, they are very aggressive when you go over their 5000 minutes "unlimited" plan. If you don't decrease your usage, you are looking at a higher month bill. Because you know it's unlimited....
Amazing how Microsoft is stupid enough to take out their competitive advantage. The larger free storage is OneDrive's big advantage over the other services. Without it, it is actually worse.
1. The client has problems with very deep folders and long file names. If it detects such issue, it will simply quit, cutting you out from the service completely.
2. It is unreliable in detecting changes. I have timed how quick a client updates the syncing folder when I added a new file. Dropbox almost always does it immediately. Google Drive can take up to 2 to 5 minutes. OneDrive can take up to 40 minutes to actually start syncing the changes. This is supremely ridiculous, and defeats the whole point of the service.
3. I have reported all those issues to Microsoft and OneDrive's team, and till today, I still observe those behaviors.
The only great thing about OneDrive is that if allows you to sync an existing folder in your computer (Google Drive requires a new empty folder).
I used OneDrive mainly because of the 15GB free storage. Now that it is 5GB, why would I want to use an inferior service? Microsoft Office can work with dropbox just fine. For everything else, Google Drive becomes an acceptable replacement.
1. The client has problems with very deep folders and long file names. If it detects such issue, it will simply quit, cutting you out from the service completely.
2. It is unreliable in detecting changes. I have timed how quick a client updates the syncing folder when I added a new file. Dropbox almost always does it immediately. Google Drive can take up to 2 to 5 minutes. OneDrive can take up to 40 minutes to actually start syncing the changes. This is supremely ridiculous, and defeats the whole point of the service.
3. I have reported all those issues to Microsoft and OneDrive's team, and till today, I still observe those behaviors.
The only great thing about OneDrive is that if allows you to sync an existing folder in your computer (Google Drive requires a new empty folder).
I used OneDrive mainly because of the 15GB free storage. Now that it is 5GB, why would I want to use an inferior service? Microsoft Office can work with dropbox just fine. For everything else, Google Drive becomes an acceptable replacement.
Don't call it "Unlimited".
They call it "Unlimited" then get bent when people use it as such.
