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Microsoft To Begin Reducing Your Free OneDrive Cloud Storage Starting Today (betanews.com)
For those of you who forgot -- or didn't bother -- to keep the 15GB worth of OneDrive storage, starting today you will see a big change in your account. On Thursday, Microsoft will begin shrinking your 15GB OneDrive free storage to 5GB, and also cancel the 15GB storage it gave you as part of camera roll backup bonus. For its part, Microsoft did warn about the changes to people a couple of times over the past few months. It all started when Microsoft gave Office 365 subscribers unlimited OneDrive storage space. Many people abused this, uploading over 75TB worth of movies and other files in some cases. BetaNews reports: If you log into your OneDrive account and find that you still have the full storage quota available, don't be lulled into a false sense of security. The cuts are actually being spread out between July 13 and July 27. Unless you opted out of the change, you're out of luck.
If you offer unlimited storage and someone uploads 75TB worth of data, they are not abusing the service but taking advantage of your generous offer. If you don't want 75TB of data, set a lower limit.
Let's add to that.
Offer unlimited storage, and when people upload 75TB worth of data it's abuse.
But presenting misleading alerts to trick people into installing Windows10, that's perfectly acceptable.
What I don't understand is:
a) Why windows 10 users haven't filed a class-action suit against Microsoft, and
b) Why the FTC hasn't dropped a hammer on Microsoft over this.
The FTC seems to be the only federal agency that actually tries to benefit the people. They should be pounding Microsoft into the ground over the misleading alerts and unwanted upgrades.