These changes will start rolling out in early 2016. The 15GB camera roll storage bonus will also be discontinued. In November, Microsoft said:įree OneDrive storage will decrease from 15GB to 5GB for all users, current and new. So the only real changes being announced today are for free OneDrive users. If you have 15GB or 30GB of storage in your OneDrive account, you get to keep it.

If you have a standalone OneDrive storage plan already, though, you’re not affected.īut again, Microsoft isn’t changing its mind for any of the above.

Nothing is changing for other paid OneDrive users either: 100GB and 200GB paid plans are still going away for new users, to be replaced with a 50GB plan for $1.99 per month in early 2016.

Microsoft is also offering prorated refunds ( FAQ) in case you decide Office 365 is no longer a good deal. Like the company announced in November, if you have any of the aforementioned Office 365 plans and have stored in excess of 1TB, you will be able to keep your increased storage for at least 12 months. That said, on the paid user front, nothing is changing. For this, we are truly sorry and would like to apologize to the community. We realize the announcement came across as blaming customers for using our product. Since then, we’ve heard clearly from our Windows and OneDrive fans about the frustration and disappointment we have caused. In November we made a business decision to reduce storage limits for OneDrive. Microsoft blamed “a small number of users” that really took advantage of the “unlimited” option, even uploading in excess of 75TB, which was apparently “14,000 times the average.” Today, the company is apologizing for this: Register Here Paid OneDrive users: No change Learn how to build, scale, and govern low-code programs in a straightforward way that creates success for all this November 9.

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