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(Edit: Above post originally read only “Microsoft did no such thing” before edit. Evidently updated their post after actually reading the thread). Weird, you s

(Edit: Above post originally read only “Microsoft did no such thing” before edit. Evidently updated their post after actually reading the thread). Weird, you should tell Microsoft this, because I don’t know what it was before but the link in that thread says they are: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/microsoft-365-storage-options#AdditionalStorageItemId https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/microsoft... Limiting to 100TB pooled and $30/TB/month for extra storage. One of the reasons explicitly given being “Environmental Impact”

zinekeller 3y ago
It's honestly confusing but to be fair to Microsoft: > all institutions’ tenants will receive 100TB of free pooled storage across OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange, with an additional 50GB or 100GB of pooled storage per paid user for A3 and A5 subscriptions, respectively This is a bad change, period (plus the justification given is basically stepping on a gaping wound), but there are storage guarantees much greater than what McGill's are doing.
Terretta 3y ago
"Microsoft did no such thing" was about this post's headline, that Microsoft limited the students' storage. It did not. I changed the wording because "no such" is too strong since they did adjust pricing model 'plans', and they did give some (stupid) talking points McGill copy-pasted. Not sure what 'thread' you mean. If you mean Twitter, you are correct, I did not 'actually read the [Twitter] thread', I went to source at McGill and linked that here, then further linked to Microsoft policy update after using Kagi to find the Microsoft propoganda regurgitated by McGill: https://kagi.com/search?q=Microsoft%20is%20introducing%20changes%20to%20our%20service%20offering%20across%20our%20Microsoft%20365%20Education%20suite%20that%20require%20us%20to%20place%20limits%20on%20storage.%20As%20of%20May%2031st%2C%202024%2C%20students%20will%20have%2020GB%20(Gigabytes)%20of%20OneDrive%20storage%20space%2C%20in%20addition%20to%2020GB%20of%20Outlook%20email%20storage https://kagi.com/search?q=Microsoft%20is%20introducing%20cha.... To be clear, Microsoft is not making McGill limit student storage: "Every institution’s tenant has a 100TB base storage capacity. Microsoft 365 and Office 365 A3 and A5 paid user licenses add 50GB or 100GB respectively to the pool of storage. In addition, institutions can purchase additional pooled storage in 10TB increments for $300 estimated retail USD monthly to add to the tenant pool. To find your capacity, use this calculation: 100TB + (#A3 paid users x 50GB) + (#A5 paid users x 100 GB) + (additional storage purchased) = capacity/limit." McGill is making a choice, there is a reasonable price to maintain whatever pool McGill want, and Microsoft's argument for matching Google academic threshold drop was posted 6 months ago, no scramble needed.

zinekeller 3y ago

It's honestly confusing but to be fair to Microsoft: > all institutions’ tenants will receive 100TB of free pooled storage across OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange, with an additional 50GB or 100GB of pooled storage per paid user for A3 and A5 subscriptions, respectively This is a bad change, period (plus the justification given is basically stepping on a gaping wound), but there are storage guarantees much greater than what McGill's are doing.

Terretta 3y ago

"Microsoft did no such thing" was about this post's headline, that Microsoft limited the students' storage. It did not. I changed the wording because "no such" is too strong since they did adjust pricing model 'plans', and they did give some (stupid) talking points McGill copy-pasted. Not sure what 'thread' you mean. If you mean Twitter, you are correct, I did not 'actually read the [Twitter] thread', I went to source at McGill and linked that here, then further linked to Microsoft policy update after using Kagi to find the Microsoft propoganda regurgitated by McGill: https://kagi.com/search?q=Microsoft%20is%20introducing%20changes%20to%20our%20service%20offering%20across%20our%20Microsoft%20365%20Education%20suite%20that%20require%20us%20to%20place%20limits%20on%20storage.%20As%20of%20May%2031st%2C%202024%2C%20students%20will%20have%2020GB%20(Gigabytes)%20of%20OneDrive%20storage%20space%2C%20in%20addition%20to%2020GB%20of%20Outlook%20email%20storage https://kagi.com/search?q=Microsoft%20is%20introducing%20cha.... To be clear, Microsoft is not making McGill limit student storage: "Every institution’s tenant has a 100TB base storage capacity. Microsoft 365 and Office 365 A3 and A5 paid user licenses add 50GB or 100GB respectively to the pool of storage. In addition, institutions can purchase additional pooled storage in 10TB increments for $300 estimated retail USD monthly to add to the tenant pool. To find your capacity, use this calculation: 100TB + (#A3 paid users x 50GB) + (#A5 paid users x 100 GB) + (additional storage purchased) = capacity/limit." McGill is making a choice, there is a reasonable price to maintain whatever pool McGill want, and Microsoft's argument for matching Google academic threshold drop was posted 6 months ago, no scramble needed.