Windows 10: MS Downgrades free Onedrive storage, ends unlimited for Office 365

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UPDATE:

Users Want Microsoft to Give Back More Free OneDrive Storage After the Company’s Broken Promise

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Sorry but I can only say this: Idiots! I'm off looking for another cloud provider. MS can keep their lousy 5 GB.

 

OK, MS will decrease the free 15 GB to 5 GB but on the other side, those users affected with this will not only get a full year to adapt but they also get a free Office 365 for a year, worth $60, which includes 1 TB of OneDrive in addition to a full Office 2016 suite of programs:

From OneDrive Changes FAQ | OneDrive Blog

I say that more than compensates the loss of free storage space.

 

I use MegaCloud and I have 500Gb for free. Free Cloud - 500GB Storage - Crypted, Free Secure - MegaCloud.io

 

I'll let you in on a little secret, you're not paying 50% more, and you realise that we're talking $1 PER MONTH difference right

 

Come on stop talking sense.

 

How are you not paying 50% more ?

For 50GB on OneDrive it's $1.99 X 12 (months) = $23.88

For 50GB on Icloud it's $0.99 X 12 (months) = $11.88

So $23.88 x .5 ( .5 = 50%) = $11.94 ( which is more than 50% )

Currently OneDrive is $1.99 for 100GB ( 100x.50 = 50 F.Y.I )! So essentially they're taking 50% of your storage away and charging the same price that Google will be (when they go through with it) which is $1.99(not including the 15gb they haven't gotten rid of, or the unlimited HQ photos upload). So why would I pay Microsoft an extra dollar a month just because they me want to(when there is cheaper after their tier change)? If I switch to Icloud over five years I save $59.70 for the same amount of space! If I switch to Google Drive I get 50 GB more a month for the same price as OneDrive! I don't wanna pay another $12 a year, when I can spend 20 seconds and migrate to another service with MultCloud (which will either give me more space or save me money)!

 

My preference is, and always has been, Dropbox. More features, throttling, Lan transfers and cross platform clients. I only use a free account, but with referals and such, I am up to around 6gb free.

I supplement with OneDrive for my bigger stuff as I was getting around 25gb free. I am just under 5gb used on OneDrive.

Dropbox pro is $100 per year for 1Tb. So, MS is still very competitve, even if others do it cheaper. At $100 a year for DropBox pro, I could not only get 1tb from MS, but can also get Office. Thats very compelling, unless you absolutely dont't need Office.

 

Office 365 Home costs $80 a year. With that you get 5 licenses of full Office 2016 suite, plus one TB OneDrive for each license, a total of 5 TB of OneDrive.

Buy Office 365 Home

In terms of storage space compared to DropBox Pro, you would get five times the storage with 20% less money, in addition to 5 Office licenses.

 

Microsoft reneges on 'unlimited' OneDrive storage promise for Office 365 subscribers.

Microsoft reneges on 'unlimited' OneDrive storage promise for Office 365 subscribers | ZDNet

 

But @Kari, that's only for one year, what do they do after that, when they can't afford it? I'll just use my 5GB for when I want to share or post something, but backups can stay on an ext. HDD for permanent things, and everything else a system image. One can also use file history.

Those people who abused with their videos where probably video/media sharing pirates anyhow.

 

Just checked my Mail app. Look what I received today. Are they really so perverse?*Doh*Roflmao2




I'm not kidding, I did receive this today...

 

I have been already playing with the idea I don't actually need Office other than the Online version without subscription. Now I am decided and will keep the 5 GB OneDrive for documents and find myself another cloud for photo backups...maybe. maybe external HDD backup will be enough. And leaving OneNote for Evernote too...

 

Lol, are you using Microsoft math here dude? That's not 50% more, that's 100% more...

 

I guess people who want "Free" space need to start using Bing(if they're not already) and turn in those rewards!

Read the bottom of the page, from the Horses mouth: OneDrive Changes FAQ | OneDrive Blog