Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse

[DEAD7]

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.

 

[Jhoon]

How many people are actively "abusing" this policy?

 

[Idaeo]

how can you abuse unlimited storage? either it's unlimited or it's not....

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Is that how the free market spoke?

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

how can you abuse unlimited storage? either it's unlimited or it's not....

:scumbag:

 

[tmonster]

how can you abuse unlimited storage? either it's unlimited or it's not....

you make so much sense that I'm like

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

75 TB

But really I think they just didn't expect people to be using that much so they used unlimited as a marketing plan then it backfired on them.

 

[Jhoon]

75 TB

But really I think they just didn't expect people to be using that much so they used unlimited as a marketing plan then it backfired on them.

I disagree. I think it was all part of their plan. Get people hooked, then implement their revenue increasing scheme.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

I disagree. I think it was all part of their plan. Get people hooked, then implement their revenue increasing scheme.

That's a thought too. Who knows

 

[Jhoon]

That's a thought too. Who knows

I took it as business was blooming and they expect an uptick in revenue. Im going to get some stock next week.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

I took it as business was blooming and they expect an uptick in revenue. Im going to get some stock next week.

How much and what's their stock going for? Im broke but I might take along.

 

[hayesc0]

Is that how the free market spoke?

 

[Brown_Pride]

how can you abuse unlimited storage? either it's unlimited or it's not....

Had this same issue with my ISP about 4 years ago. At the time I was using 4 computers, 4 phones, an Ipad and a tablet or two and the kids were home for summer. Turns out "unlimited internet" has a cap at around 750GB. Pass that 3 months in a row and you have to open a business account to get more access to the rest of your unlimited internet. I remember talking to the customer service manager and him sounding stupid as fuk and knowing it

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Economics 101.

Supply was high and demand was low so they offered unlimited storage. Demand rose so they raise the price of supply. Netflix doing the same thing.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

75 TB

But really I think they just didn't expect people to be using that much so they used unlimited as a marketing plan then it backfired on them.

Cloud storage is

Free cloud storage is