Arizin Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 This morning, Microsoft announced that all Office 365 accounts will come with unlimited OneDrive storage. Gone are the 1 terabyte caps that were recently introduced. If you pay for Office, your storage is free.It’s a good, if not surprising, move from Microsoft: The company has worked to improve the value profile of its Office 365, productivity-as-a-service offering for some time. Free storage is a good feature. Storage is a feature. The more you can offer, the better.The price of storage has been in free fall for years. Bundling an unlimited dollop into Office 365 is the penultimate step in that particular progression. The final zero-cost level will occur when large platform companies offer free, unlimited storage to all users, period. For now, Microsoft is following other cloud providers in selling unlimited storage capacity, like Box.Office 365 has been a win for Microsoft. If the company can improve the product’s growth rate, it will assist the aging software giant in its shift from software sales, to software-as-a-serivce, or SaaS.Here’s the key part: Moving forward, all Office 365 customers will get unlimited OneDrive storage at no additional cost. We’ve started rolling this out today to Office 365 Home, Personal, and University customers. [...] For OneDrive for Business customers, unlimited storage will be listed on the Office 365 roadmap in the coming days and we will begin updating the First Release customers in 2015, aligned with our promise to provide ample notification for significant service changes.Remember when people tried to sell cloud gigabytes? What a silly time.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowledge-Spammer Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iaTa Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Not really. Upload speeds are diabolical so this is pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosaji Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Not really. Upload speeds are diabolical so this is pointless.Great. Upload speeds are going to be increased in the next few months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeSmithG Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Sometimes I think these one-line storage solutions are more like on-line snooping on behalf of the F.B.I. Chinese governments and any other agency wanting a piece of the action. I used one a few years ago to store password protected .zip files with my software I purchased in them. I found some had been deleted. I contacted the company and their excuse was they could not be accessed by a third party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjall Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 anything online is an FBI, CIA or watchdog offcourse, I would never place my pics, or files any near online; happy with DVD's backup and HD; not everything new is good, old is gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hateplesent Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 hope it results as good as it sounds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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