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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

Say Goodbye to “Unlimited” OneDrive Storage

November 5, 2015

About a year ago, Microsoft announced that its Office 365 subscribers would get unlimited storage in OneDrive. Apparently, the unlimited storage was a limited time offer since Microsoft just pulled the plug on it. Part of Microsoft’s announcement describes how the storage volumes will be reduced.

  • We're no longer planning to offer unlimited storage to Office 365 Home, Personal, or University subscribers. Starting now, those subscriptions will include 1 TB of OneDrive storage.
  • 100 GB and 200 GB paid plans are going away as an option for new users and will be replaced with a 50 GB plan for $1.99 per month in early 2016.
  • Free OneDrive storage will decrease from 15 GB to 5 GB for all users, current and new. The 15 GB camera roll storage bonus will also be discontinued. These changes will start rolling out in early 2016.

Perhaps we can understand why Microsoft is backing off given that some users’ storage exceeded 75 TB. So because of the actions of a few, all must suffer.

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