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If you read the announcement you get an idea of just how messed up this is. Quoting: "We overcommitted with our free storage limits and we want to focus on del

by deprave 10y ago

If you read the announcement you get an idea of just how messed up this is. Quoting: "We overcommitted with our free storage limits and we want to focus on delivering high-value productivity and collaboration experiences that benefit the majority of our users. If we continued with the current offerings, we wouldn’t be able to sustain our growth and deliver the reliable service that you count on." Quoting further: "We will be actively communicating with our users as these changes start rolling out via email and in-product notifications. These notifications will start at least 90 days before the changes take effect to ensure that you have enough time to act or make changes." In other words, Microsoft, a $400 billion company with $100 billion of cash in the bank, misled consumers when it said it could provide a service better than Dropbox, a measly startup. It can't sustain its growth, so you get 5gb cloud drive, or about a third the size of a GMail mailbox. But wait, there's more! You thought you could rely on their cloud offering to backup your data? well, you'll have 90 days to clear that space. Because you can't really get any peace of mind from Microsoft. I don't understand people who can avoid Microsoft products and services yet still opt to pay to this awful company.

ars 10y ago
> well, you'll have 90 days to clear that space. Actually 18 months. Did you actually read the announcement? Say what you will about what they are doing, but at least they are giving people plenty of time to get their data. (Or did you mean something else with "clear that space"?)
- deprave 10y ago
  "If you do not claim this offer, you will need to purchase additional storage or remove some of your files. Otherwise, 90 days after you receive your first notice, your account will become read-only." Examples for things that will break once your account is read-only: * Any program that modifies files on open (Word, Excel, others) * Any program or device that would sync to a cloud folder on OneDrive * Any existing workflow that relied on OneDrive files for easy access and/or sharing Have you ever mounted a filesystem read-only? You should try it and then come back and tell us that people have plenty of time. They might not lose their data immediately, but virtually anything that touches OneDrive will break once it becomes read-only.
  - nomel 10y ago
    > You thought you could rely on their cloud offering to backup your data? well, you'll have 90 days to clear that space. Your wording suggested the data backup was at risk. You can still rely on the safety of the data backup, they're doing fine there, even after 90 days. Just don't expect to be able to add additional data, which will of course break workflows trying to do that. The data is safe though.
santoshalper 10y ago
This is some serious hyperbole. It's a free service - they have no obligation to continue offering it at all. They've decided to scale it back and are giving you plenty of time to move your files (is it going to take you 90 days to download 15GB?). Better not move them to Dropbox though, you only get 2GB free there.
capote 10y ago
> this awful company. Microsoft is doing a lot of good things too recently. And for that matter they've always done a lot of good things. Remember how much they've contributed to the early days of personal computing. They're a reasonable company at worst now. Remember that Microsoft has many departments for different things. Yeah, their branding is a disaster lately, OneDrive has been really rude to their users, licensing for Windows business/enterprise is ridiculous but, for example, we use .NET at work and those teams have been great to us in helping and providing good services and tools. I really enjoy working with VS pro, and think they're heading in a lot of good directions on the developer front.

by deprave 10y ago

ars 10y ago

> well, you'll have 90 days to clear that space. Actually 18 months. Did you actually read the announcement? Say what you will about what they are doing, but at least they are giving people plenty of time to get their data. (Or did you mean something else with "clear that space"?)

deprave 10y ago
"If you do not claim this offer, you will need to purchase additional storage or remove some of your files. Otherwise, 90 days after you receive your first notice, your account will become read-only." Examples for things that will break once your account is read-only: * Any program that modifies files on open (Word, Excel, others) * Any program or device that would sync to a cloud folder on OneDrive * Any existing workflow that relied on OneDrive files for easy access and/or sharing Have you ever mounted a filesystem read-only? You should try it and then come back and tell us that people have plenty of time. They might not lose their data immediately, but virtually anything that touches OneDrive will break once it becomes read-only.
- nomel 10y ago
  > You thought you could rely on their cloud offering to backup your data? well, you'll have 90 days to clear that space. Your wording suggested the data backup was at risk. You can still rely on the safety of the data backup, they're doing fine there, even after 90 days. Just don't expect to be able to add additional data, which will of course break workflows trying to do that. The data is safe though.

santoshalper 10y ago

This is some serious hyperbole. It's a free service - they have no obligation to continue offering it at all. They've decided to scale it back and are giving you plenty of time to move your files (is it going to take you 90 days to download 15GB?). Better not move them to Dropbox though, you only get 2GB free there.

capote 10y ago

> this awful company. Microsoft is doing a lot of good things too recently. And for that matter they've always done a lot of good things. Remember how much they've contributed to the early days of personal computing. They're a reasonable company at worst now. Remember that Microsoft has many departments for different things. Yeah, their branding is a disaster lately, OneDrive has been really rude to their users, licensing for Windows business/enterprise is ridiculous but, for example, we use .NET at work and those teams have been great to us in helping and providing good services and tools. I really enjoy working with VS pro, and think they're heading in a lot of good directions on the developer front.