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'OneDrive was what kept me on the Windows platform, even with my appless Windows phone. Why punish everyone for your mistake of offering unlimited storage?' asked Kevin McIntosh. I now feel stupid for recommending OneDrive to all my family.' 'Clearly aimed at getting more people onto the paid Office 365 sub, when in fact all it'll do is drive away a huge amount of users. 'This is an incredibly shortsighted move,' said Charles Tyldsley yesterday. By early Wednesday, the item had been up-voted more than 16,000 times, and included over 800 comments, easily blowing by other OneDrive requests. 'Give us back our storage,' the UserVoice entry asked. UserVoice is a Microsoft service that lets customers suggest changes to the company's products, and has been an important part of Microsoft's renewed emphasis on feedback and its pivot to constantly evolving software. Other OneDrive users took to Microsoft's own petition-like website, UserVoice, to lodge their complaints and make their requests. 'In my eyes, main storage + camera roll storage were cornerstones of the whole ecosystem. 'I am using the Windows Phone ecosystem and OneDrive is essential part of it,' said Petr Zizka. Is this part of the cloud strategy? If it is, your strategy should be revised.'

#Microsoft onedrive windows early windows 10

This extra storage was one of the reasons I boarded the Microsoft ship, buying a Lumia, a Windows 10 PC and an Xbox One.

'5GB for pictures and documents is ludicrous.

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'I do not pay for Office 365 but I do represent a big percentage of OneDrive users who had and used their free 15GB of storage + extra 15GB camera roll bonus,' wrote Tim Moose early Wednesday. The reductions - from a total of 30GB for those with the camera roll enabled - to just 5GB, penalized the most loyal Microsoft customers, some argued. While much of the attention paid to Microsoft's OneDrive announcement focused on the company eliminating unlimited storage for Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal subscribers - a move Microsoft attributed to abuse by a few gluttons - most of those who left comments on the petition bewailed the reduction of the free allowance and the disappearance of the bonus photo storage space. At the same time, it will also dump the 15GB 'camera roll,' which Microsoft has handed out since September 2014 to smartphone owners who activated the auto-upload option for their photographs. Late Monday, Microsoft also said it would lower the free allotment from 15GB - which had equaled that of Google's Drive - to 5GB, or the same as Apple's parsimonious iCloud, in early 2016.

The petition argued for a restoration of the eliminated 100GB and 200GB plans, which Microsoft said would be eliminated in favor of a new 50GB deal, and urged that the cap for Office 365 subscribers be 2TB, double Microsoft's new limit.