Microsoft truly received’t roll out an unpopular OneDrive change to picture storage

After receiving backlash from prospects, Microsoft introduced it has canceled plans to impose storage limits for pictures in a person’s OneDrive account beginning on October sixteenth, Gizmodo reviews.

Beginning in October, underneath the now-rescinded coverage, pictures in a person’s saved picture albums and OneDrive Gallery would depend in opposition to its cloud-based quota of 5 gigabytes. As soon as the brand new coverage went into impact, customers with pictures surpassing the restrict would not have the ability to save new OneDrive information and even obtain emails in Microsoft’s free Outlook electronic mail service.

When it introduced the adjustments in August, Microsoft stated it could grant customers a free one-year storage bonus to compensate for the inconvenience, however that did not fulfill customers.

It’s potential that backlash over a latest Outlook coverage change additionally performed a job. In February, Microsoft introduced electronic mail attachments and inline photographs would depend towards the five-gigabyte OneDrive restrict. Up till then, Microsoft account holders had been allowed 15GB of storage of their cloud-hosted electronic mail, which included attachments and pictures, The Register

Because of this, many customers complained they may not ship or obtain emails.

“Nobody deletes attachments each time an electronic mail is acquired. That is like blackmail,” one Microsoft person instructed The Register in April when the replace began rolling out to extra customers. “MS is forcing us to purchase a subscription by the again door or to should delete emails with attachments frequently advert infinitum.”

It’s potential the transfer may have compelled Outlook customers emigrate over to rivals like Gmail, which continued to supply a 15GB storage restrict. Maybe by backtracking on picture storage limits, Microsoft could be attempting to keep away from unwittingly giving Google extra prospects.