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OneDrive Blog
blog.onedrive.com · Company blog · on HN since 2014
Microsoft's official OneDrive blog announces storage plans, file size limits, developer features, and service changes.
What HN saysHN links it for OneDrive announcements; commenters are skeptical of the changes, calling the 'unlimited' storage rebranding and the policy change doublespeak.
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- 1OneDrive Changes3 people · 231 points · first shared 2015 · 141 comments on HN
- 2Onedrive now supports 10 gb files2 people · first shared 2014
- 3Massive increase to Onedrive storage plans1 people · 115 points · first shared 2014 · 107 comments on HN
- 4Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription1 people · 51 points · first shared 2014 · 43 comments on HN
- 5OneDrive delivers unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 subscribers1 people · 14 points · first shared 2014 · 2 comments on HN
- 6Microsoft opens up OneDrive storage for developers to integrate into apps1 people · 6 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 7OneDrive for Everything in Your Life (SkyDrive becomes OneDrive)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 8OneDrive is Now Available Worldwide1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 9The new OneDrive API1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 10Great improvements for OneDrive for Business will come1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 11Homepage1 people · first shared 2014
- 12Update for shared links1 people · first shared 2014
What HN people wrote when they linked it
3825 · 2014-03-18
The OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) blog is on Azure and is built on WordPress. You can reach http://blog.onedrive.com/ through http://onedrive-wp.azurewebsites.net/
While this isn't much, it tells that not everyone is completely infected with not invented here (NIH) at Microsoft.
basch · 2016-05-06
this was announced lathered in doublespeak back early november.
https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive_changes/
gottam · 2016-01-08
It's because they DO look through people's files for their own purposes. Example:
https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive_changes/
> a small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings.
I'm pretty certain they didn't get permission to look at their users movie collections or DVR recordings, they were just flagged for high usage and they went right in to see what those users were storing. For any form of data collection they do, it's a guarantee they're analyzing the outliers... in fact they're practically bragging about the fact they do.
tkmcc · 2014-10-27
OneDrive recently increased its maximum supported file size from 2 GB to 10 GB,[+]. To echo other comments in this thread, it's likely that "Unlimited" storage is a rebranding and publicity move because most paid users were not using anywhere near the 1+ TB they had access to anyways. To me, it seems likely that the file size limit could be lifted for similar purposes soon.
[+] https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive-now-supports-10-gb-files/
vidyesh · 2014-10-27
- The Mac Client for OneDrive Pro ( SkyDrive Pro ) seems to be 'In Development'[1] (OneDrive For Business Sync for Mac). But the OneDrive App works for OneDrive for Business too.
- OneDrive now supports 10GB files.[2]
- I am not certain but from what I know. The 20,000 limit is a suggested limit which isn't imposed. One can upload more than 20,000 files but above 20,000 files there is some sync issue with the present sync tool.
[1]https://office.com/roadmap
[2]https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive-now-supports-10-gb-files/
lazersharks29 · 2014-07-09
That's still pretty bad, there could be millions of leaked document URL's in the logs of severs all over the internet and users haven't been notified.
It looks like Microsoft Onedrive did a similar thing too:
https://blog.onedrive.com/update-for-shared-links/
>"We chose not to disable all previously shared links, because the change only applies to a small fraction of shared files. If customers disable and then re-share a document, this will prevent further access to a document that might have been accessed."