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Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse (onedrive.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft previously offered Office 365 subscribers unlimited space on their OneDrive cloud storage platform. Now, the company has announced that it's reducing the limit to 1 TB, citing abuse from a small number of users, some of whom dropped 75 TB worth of data in Microsoft's cloud. In addition, Microsoft is cutting the size of their limited storage plans. They used to offer 100 GB for $2/month and 200 GB for 4$/month. Those plans are being replaced with 50 GB for $2/month (existing subscribers will get to keep their plans, for now). Microsoft is also decreasing the amount of space users get for free from 15 GB to 5 GB, and discontinuing the 15 GB camera roll bonus. These changes will roll out in "early 2016," and users will have up to a year to get down under the new caps.
When the cost of storage is going down they put the prices up. Maybe instead of OneDrive they should call it HalfDrive. Thanks MS but I think I'll stick with my Dropbox.
Yet another failed attempt to find a home in the post Gates era. Epic fail.
Europeans whine about free stuff, news at 11.
All my porn is in ASCII format, so it doesn't take much room.
So is mine, but those ASCII movies still take up space and I have over 100TB in my collection -- especially the new 4K movies. You should see how many monitors I had to put up to display a 4096 x 2160 xterm.
One station wagon on the Interstate...