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Zappykins on 03 November 2015
fielding88 said:
I can only hope they back-pedal on this news. I'm pretty deep into the Microsoft ecosystem (everything except the Xbox) with my PCs, Surface tablets and Windows Phones, and earlier this year signed up for Office 365 for the unlimited storage. This is a bit of a trust issue with me, and while I won't be refunding my 365 subscription, I've convinced a few people to try Windows (Phones) because of OneDrive integration. Couple this with the lack of Windows 10 placeholders and OneDrive is much less of a selling point now for myself and a few others.

And does anyone know how Microsoft knew that people were uploading DVR recordings and movie collections? Is that something they can find out without looking into individual accounts? Serious question because I don't know, and they referred to users with 75TB worth of such files in the blog post.

There are probably just a few people with Office 365 over 50gb, so the one(s) with 75TB would be pretty easy to see what's going on.  One would think they might be spreading viruses or something and look at the structure of the files.

I too hope they back petal (as they did a few years ago over a similar thing, but then they grandfathered some people.)  This just seems like a bad PR move.   Reminds me of when Apple had to fire Steve Jobs when we started going nuts - but the damage was done and they were going bankrupt anyway.



 

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Zappykins on 03 November 2015
Lawlight said:
rolltide101x said:
5 GBs for free is more than enough. People are so entitled these days


My photos only are easily 5GB.

And the new 20mp photo Lumia phones are about to launch.  Will get eaten up quickly.



 

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned. 

Top 50 'most fun' game list coming soon!

 

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NiKKoM on 03 November 2015

Man.. Remember when we paid a lot of money for 128mb usb drives.. They are milking it.. Go use Mega.co.nz its from kimdotcom.. Works great and 50gb for free.. 50gb!



 

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Normchacho on 03 November 2015

Well, that sucks. Luckily for me, the only cloud storage I use is for my PS saves. I have physical backups for everything else.



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LurkerJ on 03 November 2015

Ok so, they stopped giving unlimited storage because people "abused" it.

First of all, how did not they see that coming?

Second of all, how does that lead to reduction of the free storage from 15 to 5... WTF! The two aren't related.




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Ljink96 on 03 November 2015

Let's hope MEGA doesn't follow suit. 500GB of Cloud storage for free is amazing.



Mr Puggsly on 03 November 2015

Suck for people that were fine with 15GB.

I actually have the 200GB plan with OneDrive. I also have a Google Drive plan for other backup purposes. I really love my junk.



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LurkerJ on 03 November 2015

Can people stop with the "it's free" phrase.

Nothing is for free. All these free service providers know as much as they can about you, in ways I can't count, and we agree to it when we sign up, and they make money out of the information they gather and sell to third parties in exchange for the service they offer.

I am not "entitled" for expecting companies to offer what they promised after they already took what they wanted in exchange for that promise.