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I flew the coup on OneDrive when they reneged on their promise to provide unlimited storage. They still charged me $50 for the months that I signed up on the ba

I flew the coup on OneDrive when they reneged on their promise to provide unlimited storage. They still charged me $50 for the months that I signed up on the basis of that false promise.

bitmapbrother 9y ago
Speaking of reneging, remember the time they told their users that they would be lowering their storage to 5GB? Now, I'm not sure of the exact reason why they needed to do this, but you quickly lose confidence in their capability as a cloud provider when they need to start clawing back storage from users. Meanwhile Google has been offering their users 15GB and additional storage bonuses for completing tasks such as your annual security checkup.
- B1FF_PSUVM 9y ago
  > remember the time they told their users that they would be lowering their storage to 5GB They did this - to users who had bought Windows Phones advertised with 15 GB (plus 15 GB which were being given to everybody in 2015, total 30 GB). Kicked back to 5 GB as of Jan. 2016. Except those who knew to ask by Dec. 2015 to an email circulated in forums (as a concession to protests). Those kept their quota. Asking about lost quota later to MS support was unfruitful - the techs were ashamed but had their orders to not budge an inch. (Personally saw both outcomes - keeping and losing, for different users - directly.)
- ukyrgf 9y ago
  Weirdly, I got more space when they went free. I think I signed up on my Android for OneDrive to store my "camera roll" which gave something like 25GB free. I used that storage briefly to store/share .wav files for my band's EP, which took up a couple GB. When OneDrive announced their downgrade to 5 GB, they gave a free year of Office 365 to anybody that was currently using more than 5 GB. I think that expires later this month, at which point I will NOT be re-subscribing. It's miserable trying to maneuver around these cloud services; I'm sticking with Resilio Sync.

I flew the coup on OneDrive when they reneged on their promise to provide unlimited storage. They still charged me $50 for the months that I signed up on the basis of that false promise.

bitmapbrother 9y ago

Speaking of reneging, remember the time they told their users that they would be lowering their storage to 5GB? Now, I'm not sure of the exact reason why they needed to do this, but you quickly lose confidence in their capability as a cloud provider when they need to start clawing back storage from users. Meanwhile Google has been offering their users 15GB and additional storage bonuses for completing tasks such as your annual security checkup.

B1FF_PSUVM 9y ago
> remember the time they told their users that they would be lowering their storage to 5GB They did this - to users who had bought Windows Phones advertised with 15 GB (plus 15 GB which were being given to everybody in 2015, total 30 GB). Kicked back to 5 GB as of Jan. 2016. Except those who knew to ask by Dec. 2015 to an email circulated in forums (as a concession to protests). Those kept their quota. Asking about lost quota later to MS support was unfruitful - the techs were ashamed but had their orders to not budge an inch. (Personally saw both outcomes - keeping and losing, for different users - directly.)
ukyrgf 9y ago
Weirdly, I got more space when they went free. I think I signed up on my Android for OneDrive to store my "camera roll" which gave something like 25GB free. I used that storage briefly to store/share .wav files for my band's EP, which took up a couple GB. When OneDrive announced their downgrade to 5 GB, they gave a free year of Office 365 to anybody that was currently using more than 5 GB. I think that expires later this month, at which point I will NOT be re-subscribing. It's miserable trying to maneuver around these cloud services; I'm sticking with Resilio Sync.