Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse (onedrive.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 3, 2015 @06:46AM from the now-that-they-have-you dept.

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.

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Re:Abuse? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-03 06:55 · Score: 5, Informative

Ah, never mind... RTFA, they don't call it abuse. Stupid summary, then.
Re:Using your advertised space != Abuse by suutar · 2015-11-03 08:26 · Score: 5, Informative

actually, they're not. TFA does not use the word abuse; that was injected by the submitter or editor. MS described the use of 75TB as an "extreme backup scenario"