Microsoft end unlimited storage plan for Office 365 subscribers

This is bad news for Microsoft OneDrive users. Microsoft has announced that they are ending ‘unlimited storage’ for Office 365 Home/Personal/University subscribers and instead the subscriptions will come with 1TB of storage, which we thing is good enough for most. The reason for this is that quite a few consumers started storing movie collections and DVR recordings on cloud storage and some have used as much as 75TB of online storage. Listed below is the full list of changes that are in place now:

•    We’re no longer planning to offer unlimited storage to Office 365 Home, Personal, or University subscribers. Starting now, those subscriptions will include 1 TB of OneDrive storage.
•    100 GB and 200 GB paid plans are going away as an option for new users and will be replaced with a 50 GB plan for $1.99 per month in early 2016.
•    Free OneDrive storage will decrease from 15 GB to 5 GB for all users, current and new. The 15 GB camera roll storage bonus will also be discontinued. These changes will start rolling out in early 2016.
We’re taking the following steps to make this transition as easy as possible for customers:
•    If you are an Office 365 consumer subscriber and have stored in excess of 1 TB, you will be notified of this change and will be able to keep your increased storage for at least 12 months.
•    If you are an Office 365 consumer subscriber and find that Office 365 no longer meets your needs, a pro-rated refund will be given. To learn more visit the FAQ.
•    If you are using more than 5 GB of free storage, you will continue to have access to all files for at least 12 months after these changes go into effect in early 2016. In addition, you can redeem a free one-year Office 365 Personal subscription (credit card required), which includes 1 TB of OneDrive storage.
•    Current customers of standalone OneDrive storage plans (such as a 100 or 200 GB plans) are not affected by these changes.

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