Company announces end of unlimited storage and amending the plans.
Microsoft announced on Monday, day 02/11, that a number of changes will be implemented in onedrive platform Office 365 cloud storage Office 365 is an Office package model that runs entirely in the browser, so it requires no installation. Subscribers were offered some cloud storage plans for the company, which drew attention at affordable price.
These changes will be necessary, according to Microsoft, because some users unlimited plan have uploaded several PCs or collections Whole movies that came to exceed 75 TB. As of early 2016, who was in the unlimited plan will have access to 1 TB only. In the case of plans of 100 GB and 200 GB, the storage will drop to 50 GB. Subscribers with free plans will decrease in storage, which was 15 GB and now will be only 5 GB, and do not win plus bonus of 15 GB for direct files coming from the camera.
The changes take into force in 2016, but the old users will keep their excess files for 12 months after receiving the notice of change before they need to reduce their storage space. In addition, those who have exceeded the limit will be unable to upload more files until regularize their situation and to back up the excess files.
Many were caught off guard by the news and criticized the company for the sudden change. Another feature in this change are the new prices introduced by Microsoft , one 5 GB storage plan will cost now $ 1.99 (around R $ 7.47 by day quotation 04/11 dollar). In this way, the Drive One loses the advantage of affordability and gets more expensive until the Apple’s iCloud, where a plan with 50 GB out US $ 0.99 (around R $ 3.72 for the price of 04 / 11 dollar).
For Gizele Gavazzi
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