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tightarse on 28/10/2014 - 08:57 blog.onedrive.com (2218 clicks)
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Today, storage limits just became a thing of the past with Office 365. Moving forward, all Office 365 customers will get unlimited OneDrive storage at no additional cost. We’ve started rolling this out today to Office 365 Home, Personal, and University customers.

The roll out will continue over the coming months, so if you want to be one of the very first to get more storage, go here to put yourself at the front of the line. In the meantime, you can take advantage of the massive capacity you have today by activating the auto upload feature for your camera roll on your phone.

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  • 10101010101 on 28/10/2014 - 09:16
    +1

    Can anyone comment on the Qwibble cash back for this? On their site it says 80% cash back for monthly office subscriptions. So if I choose the most basic Office 365 personal do I pay $9/month and get $7.20 cash back?
    http://www.qwibble.com.au/microsoft-store-australia

    • 10101010101 on 28/10/2014 - 09:26

      actually i think this is correct as it's probably a one time cashback and Microsoft want to entice you to sign up for almost nothing.

      • dw121212 on 28/10/2014 - 10:28

        80% for each monthly transaction? or just the first?

        • Lukian on 28/10/2014 - 10:44

          Likely just the first. Unless you cancel each month? ;)

    • internet-stranger on 28/10/2014 - 13:13

      Can anyone confirm just once off 80%, or on ongoing?

    • ethanol on 28/10/2014 - 14:52
      +2

      The way I read it is as follows :

      $16.80 for each validated Yearly Subscription.
      80% for each validated Office Monthly Subscription

      So the 80% would apply to your first months subscription - no cashback after month one.

      Cheapest option is likely buying from DS for $79 (regularly have $20 off $99) which works out to be $6.60 / month

      • [Deactivated] on 29/10/2014 - 08:04

        Yes, I cancelled my monthly after about 3 days when I realised that it as a much better deal paying annual. I got it for $85 at Megabuy.

    • Noblejoker on 29/10/2014 - 11:30

      So I just sign up at qwibble and use their link to MS store when purchasing
      There is no promo code or something?

  • PowerB on 28/10/2014 - 09:21

    Brilliant! Thanks TA!

  • aiyoyo on 28/10/2014 - 09:32
    +1

    Unbelievable good!Time to say goodbye to Dropbox.Thanks

  • jv on 28/10/2014 - 09:32
    +2

    What happens if you discontinue or forget to renew your subscription? Do they just delete all your files ???

    • Lukian on 28/10/2014 - 09:39
      +3

      Usually with similar services you can download and delete files (until you are under the free "limit") but not upload until then.

    • MrFunSocks on 28/10/2014 - 10:41

      After a period of having no subscription, like 6-12 months iirc, they might delete your files. Could happen after 6 months and 1 day, might take 2 years, but you'd be stupid to take the risk. They would send you reminders that it is about to/has expired, so if not renewing you should get your stuff off quick smart.

      • Abaddon on 29/10/2014 - 10:03
        +1

        One of the Microsoft guys at tech ed yesterday said minimum retention time of 30 days (OneDrive business 365) so might not want to risk any longer than that. Though he may have been talking out of his ass.

  • Jam0864 on 28/10/2014 - 09:34
    +8

    Looks like I'm going to go and mirror the internet!

    • sim36 on 28/10/2014 - 09:38
      +1

      because you can

      • Lukian on 28/10/2014 - 09:41

        Looking forward to Jamoogle search engine.
        Sadly I don't think Microsoft's unlimited storage will be high performing enough for running such an endeavour.

      • jv on 28/10/2014 - 09:44
        +2

        because you can

        http://goo.gl/AEH7Yo

  • jv on 28/10/2014 - 09:46
    -7

    This belongs in the forums, it is an announcement and not a bargain…

    • tightarse on 28/10/2014 - 09:53
      +3

      Come on jv, you're an intelligent man. Yesterday this cost money, today it's free. Makes it a huge bargain for plenty of people.

      • jv on 28/10/2014 - 09:57
        -1

        today it's free.

        It's not free, you still have to pay for the subscription.

        It is the current regular price for this service, so there is no expiry date. It's not a bargain, it's just an announcement of a new pricing structure by Microsoft.

        • tightarse on 28/10/2014 - 10:04

          you still have to pay for the subscription.

          Correct, was always the case.

        • jv on 28/10/2014 - 10:18

          @tightarse:

          Correct, was always the case.

          So it's not free. It is included with your paid subscription.

          Why have you got this marked as a FREEBIE ?

        • Smigit on 28/10/2014 - 10:22
          +2

          @jv: In this case I agree. It certainly is in no way free since there's a mandatory paid subscription. The storage is as much a part of the service as the Office Applications themselves and it wouldn't shock me if there's people out there paying for O365 to get the storage that don't even use Office.

          It's still a good deal and a big perk for existing subscribers.

        • jv on 28/10/2014 - 10:25

          @Smigit:

          a big perk for existing subscribers.

          It's definitely a big perk. Mainly to get people to upgrade their old version of office to a subscription version, (Microsoft's latest plan for world domination).

          But that doesn't change the fact that this is now just their normal offering, it is not discounted, and therefore not a bargain.

        • tightarse on 28/10/2014 - 13:31

          @jv:

          Why have you got this marked as a FREEBIE ?

          Apologies jv. hamza has now corrected this.

      • jjcf on 28/10/2014 - 11:33
        +16

        'Come on jv, you're an intelligent man.'

        Comment flagged for suspicious claims.

        • tightarse on 28/10/2014 - 11:34
          +3

          Haha!! jv is a softy, with a good heart. What would OzB be without him…

        • Michael15286 on 28/10/2014 - 14:12
          +4

          @tightarse:

          At the very least, the comments section would be less entertaining and half as long.

  • CyberMurning on 28/10/2014 - 09:52
    +1

    and how much to subscribe to Office 365?

  • Ratzie on 28/10/2014 - 10:11

    What other stores sell subscriptions cheaper jv ?

    • jv on 28/10/2014 - 10:22

      HN, Officeworks, DSE, Bing Lee, CentreCom, MSY, etc. etc. etc.

      check and see who currently has them on sale…

  • Duram on 28/10/2014 - 10:21

    Joined, haven't got my normal 1TB storage added to one drive nor my unlimited.

  • rockman117 on 28/10/2014 - 10:22

    does this make getting an iPhone 6 16gb worth it? whats it like viewing photos on onedrive from iPhone?

    • jv on 28/10/2014 - 10:28
      +1

      depends on how good your telephone network provider is…

      Also, don't forget that each picture you view will be downloaded and that it can quickly add up…

      • Lukian on 28/10/2014 - 10:39
        +4

        Also, don't forget that iOS8 already stores your pictures full-size in iCloud (and never deletes them, even when you do!), and you can opt for a lower res copy on the device to save space.

        • Smigit on 28/10/2014 - 11:41
          +2

          Photos outside of photo stream (which has 1000 limit) use up storage though, and you only get 5GB free. That's good for a lot of photos, but naturally the size of the library will determine how good an option that is.

          That said, if you are mainly using the storage on an iOS device I'd probably strongly consider iCloud since it'll better integrate both with iOS as well as many of the applications on the App Store.

          The other consideration is that with data caps being as they are, I don't feel I'd personally forsake local storage entirely for cloud storage. Apps and the OS itself will consume a bit too. If you're on WiFi 95% of the time perhaps having everything in the cloud will be a non issue but, and I found Music Match fairly effective at limiting the space consumed by my music collection previously.

        • cheesecactus on 28/10/2014 - 14:52
          +2

          Onedrive is much better than icloud photo uploading.

          Onedrive will keep uploading all your photos till you hit the storage limit (which is pretty massive).

          iCloud will start deleting photos once you hit 1000 photos (which can happen quicker than you'd think).

        • Abaddon on 29/10/2014 - 10:07
          +2

          Also if your images ever did get deleted from iCloud you could still get them back from various fappening related websites*

          • Option may or may not be available depending on fame and/or attractiveness
  • monarocv8 on 28/10/2014 - 11:14

    I already had Office 365 (from MSY @ $88/year), and about 2 hours after using the link, I got an email saying "While we work on removing all storage limits we want to get you well on your way and have added 10 TB to your account.", and even though OneDrive says I have 978GB free, I checked under Additional Storage, and I have 10,240GB against my Office 365 Subscription.

  • rokufan on 28/10/2014 - 11:40
    +3

    Unlimited storage - does this include any file type? Or just files created using Office programs?

  • ethanol on 28/10/2014 - 11:51
    +1

    Makes what was already a good deal, an amazing deal.

    I signed up a couple of months ago. I'm still uploading (get about 10GB / day on cable). Will be able to cancel my Crashplan renewal (normally costs $72 / year)

    Remember, with the Home Premium you also get Office for 5 different MS accounts in your family and can install from each account on multiple devices. You also get 60 mins of Skype minutes per month and because you're then on a Skype Subscription, you can buy things like a Skype Number for half price ($40 instead of $80).

    You can easily get the Home Premium deal for $79 from Dick Smith when they have their $20 off $99 spend.

    • 10101010101 on 28/10/2014 - 12:21

      how does the multi account thing work? do you assign multiple Microsoft accounts to the subscription and each one gets its own private storage or is it shared and visible to everyone under the same subscription?

  • 10101010101 on 28/10/2014 - 12:11
    +1

    i have a paid onedrive subscription and I find the sync speeds to be very slow. Im pretty sure dropbox is much faster and gives you more control over syncing. Anyone have tips on improving speeds using Onedrive?

  • irajohn90 on 28/10/2014 - 13:02
    -4

    expired. all storage has been broden

  • murkywater on 28/10/2014 - 14:13
    +2

    Good deal, but sadly you'll only be able to capitalise using the official Windows and Mac applications. The OneDrive API has a prehistorical 100MB per file limit, which affects all third party applications.

  • Lucky13 on 28/10/2014 - 17:05

    Hey just wondering on the second page of the sign up its got a tick box to give away all your information to them but it says you can change it at anytime by visiting the link stated on that second page, could someone reply with the link please cos cant access that page anymore :(

  • KiLLUMiN4Ti on 28/10/2014 - 17:20

    Thanks TA :-)

  • KiLLUMiN4Ti on 28/10/2014 - 17:21

    dupe comment pls delete mod

  • Stingydad on 28/10/2014 - 17:46

    just signed up, apparently I'm randomly selected, only gives you 10 terabytes for now. I had 1 tera before using a university office 365 account

  • kobrien456 on 29/10/2014 - 10:36

    Head hurts. I have 365 university. iPhone iPad and windows laptop. What's the best use of this for me? Any links that might help a techy dumb arse? The one drive app on my iphone says storage full 1054 gb.

  • [Deactivated] on 29/10/2014 - 10:51

    It says "unlimited" and nothing can be unlimited, why did they not say something like 1tb?
    I guess I will be uploading files to test the limit as they always is a limit!

    • cheesecactus on 29/10/2014 - 13:00

      I think their previous limit was 1TB which theyve now bumped to unlimited. So at the minimum it would be 1TB. Hell i dont even have 1TB of files to upload (or the internet allowance)

      • [Deactivated] on 31/10/2014 - 08:16
        +1

        I don't understand why they just don't keep it at 1Tb?
        I guess if a user is uploading to much or download they can just stop them as I belived somewhere on the website they Is a fair use. More easy to get rid of a user than putting a limit.

        • MrFunSocks on 31/10/2014 - 12:46
          +1

          They made it unlimited instead of 1TB because unlimited looks better. The number of people that even hit 1TB would be miniscule, so they can offer it to everyone at no extra cost knowing full well that it really won't cost them any more money because noone will use it even if they have it.

    • nosrad on 14/11/2014 - 10:17

      10TB it is

  • mrhatken on 29/10/2014 - 13:51

    Wow, the competition is really heating up between Google Docs and Office 365 via the storage.

  • kfuerza on 29/10/2014 - 22:57

    Elated. I was going to pull the trigger anyway next month and pay the 119 per year price for 5TB. Got wifey and I on M$ accounts already and backing up phones to Onedrive for over a year now. Been searching for a good off-site solution for my 200+GB of family photos and forgot about the Office 365 deal because I have office via my work's Home Use Program.

    Then a friend reminded me that the M$ business plans were basically the same as the Office 365 plans and I went 'Well no $h1t!' 1TB x 5 is WAY more than I need for now.

    Unlimited though….

    Deal. Sealer.

  • neonlight on 30/10/2014 - 09:48
    +1

    Office 365 Home, Personal, and University customers.

    What about corporates?

  • PVA on 08/11/2014 - 19:48

    "Both referrer and referee will receive an extra 0.5GB of free storage (max 5GB)."

    an extra half a gig on top of Unlimited….

    • MrFunSocks on 10/11/2014 - 10:14

      The half a gig goes towards the amount that is yours even if your subscription lapses.

  • Noblejoker on 10/11/2014 - 15:10

    Anyone have any advice on the sharing between 5 users on the Office 365 deal
    I have signed up only to find that rather than shared storage it is an allotment of storage to each user
    And given we have Win 8.1 machines you can't sign in to OneDrive with the same account and just share it as you have to sign into the PC
    I can invite my wife to share my stored files but they don't show up on the desktop (like they do in Google Drive or Dropbox) only on the internet - way less useable

    On the plus side - having files in onedrive but select only available online saves lots of local storage on a hybrid/tablet - a feature the others don't do as well

    EDIT have left this comment here but might post to forum instead :)

  • [Deactivated] on 11/11/2014 - 11:14

    OneDrive is notorious for slow download speeds or have they updated this now.

    • Cheap Rich Guy on 16/11/2014 - 15:53

      Seems to max out my 8Mbps connection. What speed are you getting?

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