Microsoft’s recent announcement of dramatically lowering storage limits for OneDrive has been met with ire from many users of the cloud storage service.
As we reported yesterday, Microsoft has decided to revise storage limits for both free and Office 365 users, prompted by a desire to move away from the “extreme backup scenarios” some users have put OneDrive to. Members of the official OneDrive forum UserVoice have reacted with condemnation in a thread titled “Give us back our storage”.
The thread starter, Ian S., remarked: “Some of us actually store a normal amount of stuff in OneDrive. Why makes us pay for those who went over the top?” Another user, with the handle Disappointed Again, urged Microsoft to “stop promising and not delivering”, adding: “If you have a few bad eggs putting 400TB+ out there, cap it at 100TB. 1TB is a joke.”
Should the complaints keep mounting, the Redmond firm could opt to reverse the newly-announced limits – or, at least, relax them. Should Microsoft hold firm, however, several OneDrive users could become tempted by alternative cloud storage services from the likes of Apple and Google.
