Microsoft has made a reversal – if only a small one – in its controversial decision to sharply cut the levels of storage available to customers of its cloud service OneDrive. It is now possible for users on the free tier to sign up to keep their current 15GB of storage from early next year.
Many OneDrive customers reacted with dismay over Microsoft’s initial move, and now a spokesperson has told The Verge that the company is “truly sorry” for an announcement that “came across as blaming customers for using our product.”
Though the Redmond firm still isn’t rolling back most of its plans, including to axe unlimited OneDrive storage for Office 365 subscribers, it has provided a page through which free users can sign up to keep their 15GB of storage even after most of the previously announced storage cuts are enacted from early 2016.