There's some bad news for Office 365 users who were enjoying unlimited OneDrive storage, as Microsoft has now done away with this offering due to apparent abuse by a minority.
In a blog post, Microsoft announced that some Office 365 consumer users had gone to town given the unlimited space, and had backed up "numerous PCs" and/or "entire movie collections and DVR recordings".
In some cases, that exceeded 75TB per user, and Microsoft deems that abuse of the system. Although it does bring up that old chestnut – when a service is unlimited, shouldn't it actually be unlimited?
Yes there's fair usage to consider, but a company can always expect a minority of users to go to town with such an offering, and you'd have thought their servers would have been able to cope with a heavy load from a small number of people.
Microsoft said: "Instead of focusing on extreme backup scenarios, we want to remain focused on delivering high-value productivity and collaboration experiences that benefit the majority of OneDrive users."
So instead of unlimited storage for Office 365 Home, Personal or University users, these folks will now get 1TB of storage on OneDrive.
For those who have already piled up multiple terabytes of data on their OneDrive account, they will be able to keep their increased storage limit for at least a year.
Source : TechRadar
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