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Not even close. Azure is second only to AWS and Microsoft's seen triple-digit (100%+) cloud revenue growth six of the past seven quarters.
Which is a big deal... how, exactly? That's the cost of overselling, the occasional big user.
This move will likely have cost them more goodwill than those few data hoarders would've cost them in the long run.
EDIT: Also, at this kind of scale, 75TB is fuck-all.
Some body should slap on bill gate face
Unlimited is unlimited they should not have advertised such a lie from the beginning
Apparently M$ still can't figure out how this whole innertubez thing works.
I'm bailing my encrypted stuff off Microsoft servers right now. It's absolutely great that you have to jump through countless of redirects just to get to your final login page. Then you meet with the dreaded "Call Us Overprotective" data collection message which you can skip for 7(?) days.
I tried to download their installer exe from onedrive.live.com and all damn links took me to their login page(wtf?). When logged in, again all links from google took me to the same place.
Are you not supposed to get the desktop installer anymore? What the hell is wrong with microsoft?
Good luck with these links from google:
site:live.com inurl:download "onedrive"
I may be one of the few who doesn't care. Thanks to the sharing facility it got all my family backing up their photos and shit for the first time ever, which saves me days a year having to try and retrieve shit from their failed hard drives and broken computers. Worth every penny of the cost.
Anyone wants to keep 30GB? https://preview.onedrive.com/bonus/
Till they do a 3rd round of cuts and you have preview2.onedrive.com...
Seen that mentioned on arsetechnica.
Funny how mickeysoft goes around on the footer:
read: we can still screw you over if our head'll hurt again.
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Your account will not be affected by the upcoming storage changes.
Like it hurts you so much that a few people used tens of terrabytes of storage on your nearly unlimited capacity.
Would take nearly 5 years to even upload that much on my connection.
I am laughing ! oh my god
Only SpiderOak and MEGA have zero knowledge policy and which provide free cloud file storage.
If you use dropbox which I'm sure many here do then OneDrive is essentially the same when it comes to zero knowledge.
This is where Amazon was smart. Sell unlimited storage for cheap, discontinue the sync client, upload client crashes easily. Genius.
Building the storage sync into the OS and selling unlimited? Dumb.
I've uploaded 2.2TB to Amazon in last four months and I'm yet to see the first client crash. They have just recently updated the client too which provides file level visibility into the upload progress.
Took them that long too, probably just got done saying "Finally all my crap is backed up in a safe place" 2 days Microsoft says announces this, "Well shit"
Sync.com also have zero knowledge and domiciles your data outside of the US. Fairly easy to get bonuses also.
75TB of personal storage ?
that's a hell lot of stuff people had been recording.
The bubble broke, then. "It was somewhat predictable". Never used their beclouded services, and see no reason to.
Spreading important data in encrypted form over several non-unlimited services is much more sane.
They should have seen this coming. Another MS fail.