This leaves Copy and Box, how long until they screw those up ?
That Paul Thurrot vlog hardly ever mentioned the drop from 15 to 5 GB for the free users, which imho is the real issue. And the logic is flawed: if 99.9% of users use less than 5 GB, then there's no point in forcibly *capping* everyone at 5 GB. The unlimited plan was a stupid marketing ploy that couldn't be maintained for obvious reasons. Dropping everyone not on a plan to 5 GB to force them on a plan just reeks of greed. Does anyone actually believe that offering 15 GB, or even 30, instead of 5 will break the MS bank?
Dropping everyone not on a plan to 5 GB to force them on a plan just reeks of greed. Does anyone actually believe that offering 15 GB, or even 30, instead of 5 will break the MS bank?
Does anyone actually believe that offering 15 GB, or even 30, instead of 5 will break the MS bank?
I'd definitely believe that.
Without numbers it's impossible to estimate however. If you don't know how many people use OneDrive and what their average storage requirements are, then there is no way to make any claim about whether the service is cost prohibitive or not. Either way, online storage isn't a cheap service to offer.
For every GB someone uses, MS requires 3GB to store it safely, so giving us 15GB actually costs MS 45GB. Hosting that data requires that MS setup multiple, geographically separated facilities that must be maintained and staffed. Adding hundreds if not (more likely) thousands of HDD drives to the storage network every day certainly isn't cheap either. Just thinking of the electricity bills makes me weary, not to mention bandwidth costs.
Microsoft finally makes WP/M professional. Times of nokization are gone and WM wont be for sharing pictures by stupid hipsters and it will have microSD to store data. I hope next generation of WM phones won't have useless and heavy features like oversized camera or wireless charging.
Paul Thurott explicitly stated that MS' current setup just wasn't economically feasible, which is another big hint that changing from 15GB or 30GB (actually 45GB or 90GB) to 5GB (actually 15GB) very well could be a notable difference. With potentially millions of users, any reduction to storage quotas will result in huge cost savings. If you're spending 900 million on storage annually, then reducing storage requirements by over two thirds, and the associated costs along with it, is huge!
MS just screwed themselves by conditioning people to think the service is worth nothing and should be free.
Can you give a description of this? I have unlimited storage on my google student account and I feel like copying my content from onedrive to google drive
I am unsure why you speculate on the costs of cloud storage when you just criticized somebody else for doing so.
The only thing we know for sure is this, the cost of storage itself gets cheaper and cheaper every year. I can buy personally a 1TB Seagate drive that will perform far faster than cloud storage for $50 now. 6TB, $200 one time cost. MS wants $84 a year for 1 TB, which is more expensive than just buying a drive. Factor in multiple years and the external hard drive storage is the better option. Don't think Microsoft doesn't get a bulk discount for purchasing massive raid arrays for cloud service?
As the price for storage goes down, Microsoft making the service more costly per dollar is a brain dead move. Blaming the people that used a huge amount on your advertised "Unlimited" plan is even more brain dead, because it tells me Microsoft is willing to punish ME, a LIGHT user for the "crime" of using the service as advertised. What's next, higher prices for Office 365? Addition of a service fee for Windows itself? Hell if I know, but Microsoft has publicly now stated watch out, "don't depend on our services because we WILL bait and switch you for more money, even as our costs go down to implement said services". In a time when the middle class is dieing, people are struggling more and more with stagnant/shrinking wages and cost of living increases... every penny counts, and Microsoft is pricing itself out of the competition while blaming the few.
Did you see me mention a number or say how expensive it may be? No. You didn't. I stated explicitly that we just can't know the costs the OneDrive service incurs, nor at what point the service becomes too expensive for MS to continue in its present form. Saying we can't know isn't speculating.I am unsure why you speculate on the costs of cloud storage when you just criticized somebody else for doing some.
Or maybe you need to learn that a single post may not represent all of a persons views? Either way, you definitely need to learn some manners.Lol. Bro, you really need to learn what Bait & Switch means.
No, we also know for sure that millions of people COULD upload things faster than a cloud service can add storage no matter how cheap it is to buy. It is a bad business model to pay for x times as much storage as customers use no mater how cheap it is. And Microsoft doesn't. Which means they either risk capacity problems or pay more than they need to for the storage. The closer the commitments are to actual usage, the better for all parties. The hard part is getting customers to move toward a model closer to like buying gas for your car and farther from like playing Powerball. Microsoft has demonstrated the worst possible way to take a step in that direction.The only thing we know for sure is this, the cost of storage itself gets cheaper and cheaper every year.