Microsoft OneDrive changes means downgrades all round

[OilSheikh]

Which plonker was storing 75TB on Onedrive?
Did he have his company's whole Datacentre there ?

[Corky34]

Which plonker was storing 75TB on Onedrive?

Someone who thought unlimited meant without limits, personally i don't have a problem with someone wanting to store that amount of data in the cloud, what i do find strange is that whoever it was assumed that the unlimited storage offer was going to last forever, at least i guess they did seeing as how long it may have taken them to upload it in the first place, and now the offer is over having to download it.

[peterb]

Which plonker was storing 75TB on Onedrive?
Did he have his company's whole Datacentre there ?

Someone who doesn't believe that if something seems too good to be true, it usually is!

Probably the same person who was surprised when the 1TB flash drive he bought for 99p on EBay turned out to be fake....

[Attila the Bun]

Someone who thought unlimited meant without limits

You are being ironic aren't you?

[Arulmani]

Instead of taking this kind of decision, maybe Microsoft must find a workaround to limit/restrict the users who misuse the service.
This current decision is like Banning the use of Knife even in Kitchen, because somebody used Knife to kill someone. And all the others are getting affected because of this.
I am Sure if Microsoft considers itself an Enterprise Software leader, then they must invent a method to fix this without affecting the genuine users.

[Corky34]

You are being ironic aren't you?

Am I?
Or was i just to stupid to know what else unlimited meant.

I am Sure if Microsoft considers itself an Enterprise Software leader, then they must invent a method to fix this without affecting the genuine users.

There's nothing to fix though, the offer of unlimited storage served its purpose and now it over.

[Attila the Bun]

Am I?

- It's always difficult on bulletin boards to judge the tone of a post.

The subject for me is immaterial as I haven't used, or have any intention of using, the cloud to store my stuff.

[Saracen]

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The subject for me is immaterial as I haven't used, or have any intention of using, the cloud to store my stuff.

That.

And if by some miracle I were to do so, probably the only people I'd be less likely to use to do it than MS would be Apple and ..... <shudder, and make sign of the cross> .... Google.

[shaithis]

It's times like these that governments should step in and make the companies responsible for their unlimited claims. Then perhaps these companies will stop misdirecting consumers!

It's a complete joke that a company can impose a limit when using the word unlimited in advertising and I am shocked that trading standards do not make them uphold their claims.

[Corky34]

But people got what they signed up for, a one year contract of unlimited cloud storage, no one said that same offer would be available after the first year.

[aniilv]

It's a complete joke that a company can impose a limit when using the word unlimited in advertising and I am shocked that trading standards do not make them uphold their claims.

You speak as if You have never seen mobile "unlimited" deals. I think the only carrier in UK whos unlimited data actually means unlimited is three.co.uk, the rest say unlimited but limits range from 6?!? to around 25GB per month. Which is funny as hell since 6GB is barely enough for about couple of hours on twitch

[rob4001]

The problem with the cloud is you don't know when they will change the terms of service or even shut down...for me yes things like drop box are useful but if I want to store large amount of photos etc usb HDD for me.

[Saracen]

It's times like these that governments should step in and make the companies responsible for their unlimited claims. Then perhaps these companies will stop misdirecting consumers!

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While I agree with that, I'd rather government stepped in and make companies take proper, serious steps to protect our data, as a priority, with real, practical and onerous penalties for those that don't take it seriously.

I'm not suggesting clobbering them for either data loss or getting hacked, but I DO mean clobbering them for data loss or getting hacked UNLESS all reasonable steps have been taken to protect it against determined attempts, internal or external, to compromise it.

I also don't just mean data we've uploaded, but data they've collected about us, with or without our explicit consent, for their benefit. Contrary to popular opinion, the Data Protection Act places minimum obligations in this regard, and almost no responsibility for consequential loss to us if they fail.


Better yet, step in and do both, at the same time.

[peterb]

I'm using iCloud to share some photos, but I certainly don't use it for anything permanent. It also has its use when I want to work on a document on different devices st diffe.rent locations. Personally I trust Apple more than Microsoft. They have been doing it a lot longer and the pricing is stable.

Google - well it's a matter of trust, they say that it is private, and generally I believe them... But their business model is selling tailored/profiled advertising. That said, any hint of data being hacked and their world would come tumbling down

[nitro912gr]

Did you also notice that the photos they upload get converted down in quality? 5MB photo file on phone somehow becomes 3.5MB camera upload file in OneDrive and there is no option not to do it (like there is in say google+ photos)

Didn't noticed before because my phone doesn't make very big files anyway but yes, I checked an image from my phone that is 1.59mb and on onedrive is 1.43mb I will connect the phone with cable to check if there is a quality difference.

The problem with the cloud is you don't know when they will change the terms of service or even shut down...for me yes things like drop box are useful but if I want to store large amount of photos etc usb HDD for me.

Optical solutions are better for long term storage.

[Saracen]

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... they say that it is private, and generally I believe them...
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And for good measure ....


Just kidding, Peter.


It is just possible that on Google, my cynicism has slightly tilted my normal objectivity off-balance a tad, but I wouldn't believe Google if they said the sun would rise in the East tomorrow, and I wouldn't trust them any further than I could throw Jupiter.