Unlimited storage on onedrive – Microsoft does not keep his promise – ZDNet France

Microsoft ultimately not hold the promise made Oct. 27, 2014 to offer all of Office 365 customers unlimited storage onedrive. The vice president of the division in charge of cloud storage service, Chris Jones, assured whereas unlimited was obvious.

“Today’s storage limitations become a thing of the past with Office 365. The next step, all Office 365 customers will have access to unlimited storage onedrive no additional cost. We started to deploy today with 365 Family Office clients, staff and University. The deployment will continue over the coming months. “

The Unlimited was in 2014 in the sense of history

This was the announcement made there over a year. Since Microsoft has decided to backtrack. In fact, the implementation of the unlimited setting onedrive was held back several months earlier as reported by the Office 365 customers to ZDNet.

Microsoft has now formalized its decision to return to this promise. The clients of Family, People and University Office 365 not ultimately will have free unlimited storage space. The publisher sets a limit: 1TB maximum storage

In addition, the paid options of 100 and 200 GB for new users they will disappear.. They will be replaced beginning in 2016 by a 50 GB offer $ 1.99 per month. Existing customers are not affected onedrive.

The changes do not apply only to users of Office 365. Microsoft also decided to revise downward its free offer onedrive. So far, it included 15 GB of storage available. In early 2016, will be only 5 GB. And the decrease applies to all, both new and existing customers.

Up to 75 TB for some users of a true unlimited
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What is it going to happen once for customers who believed in the promise of unlimited or storing more than 5 GB of data in the case of free service onedrive? They will be informed of the change and then have 12 months to comply with the new restrictions.

Customers dissatisfied Office 365 can request a refund (pro rata). Users of Free onedrive therefore also have 12 months to return below the threshold of 5 GB. They may also, if they wish, go under Personnel Office 365, free for one year and includes 1TB of storage. They thus benefit from an additional reprieve.

Looking back on his promise, Microsoft does not he take the risk of upsetting customers in a highly competitive market? It’s likely. The publisher justifies this change in any case by the abuses of a “small number of users.”

Some customers have indeed taken the unlimited term literally. According Redmond company, users were to save “many PC and stored on onedrive entire collections of movies and DVR recordings. In some cases, it exceeded 75 TB per user” or 14,000 times more than the volume of data stored on average by users onedrive.