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What else, will they renege on, in the future? They create two operating systems the are "cloud friendly" and kill even the free 15GB?
Way to go, Micro!
What else, will they renege on, in the future? They create two operating systems the are "cloud friendly" and kill even the free 15GB?
Way to go, Micro!
Uninstall, and here you go my 2nd favorite OS(have tested, tried and used many): http://www.ubuntu.com/
I do everything locally. TB's of backup storage has never been cheaper, and I control my data. If I want to protect it and guarantee its security I just disconnect it physically when I'm online--making it 100% secure from Internet hacks. Best of all, I've still got access to my data if a Russian sub cuts a transatlantic cable and the Internet goes down, etc.... The "cloud" is highly over-rated, imo. The only thing I would put there is stuff I wouldn't mind losing--which isn't anything, actually.
People these days are far too willing to cede control of their local computing environments to cloud companies, and their lives to governments--but that last is a bit off topic...
Seriously this will not effect me too much(from 30GB, I have 29.7GB free).
But one thing wasn't mentioned, but I suppose I need to watch out for, OneNote also uses OneDrive. But It's one of those things offered free and I installed, If need be, I can do things the old school way, to keep the amount down, and only have on OneDrive, what I need to share between machines/devices/VM's...etc.
I have 140GB and most of it is in bonus how will this affect me?
also have all the data backed up on hard drives.
140 GB total
118 GB available
Your plan Free 15 GB Your additional storage Referral bonus (0% achieved) 0 GB Loyalty bonus 10 GB Camera roll bonus 15 GB Samsung bonus 100 GB Valid until: 25/09/2017
And do you replicate it and keep it offsite? What if your house burns to the ground? It happened to my sister.
You do realize that OneDrive syncs to your computer and you would still have a local copy of the data in addition to what is in the cloud. Therefore, if the Cloud disappeared overnight, you would not lose your data. And if you lost your computer (because your house burned down), you data would still be available to you in the cloud.
For those of us with multiple devices, multiple platforms, having that data available where ever we go and on which ever device we have is handy. I don't keep my email anymore on my computer, it's all in gmail. i don't backup and save my internet favorites or history, it's all synced to my Google account. I can get to my gmail on my phone, on my tablet, on my PC, on my Mac, from an Internet cafe, etc. You realize this forum site is in the cloud. It's a huge reference of information that we all rely on heavily, but we don't store it locally.
Well, this isn't going to go over well...
Microsoft drops unlimited OneDrive storage after people use it for unlimited storage | Ars Technica