After receiving backlash from prospects, Microsoft announced it has canceled plans to impose storage limits for pictures in a person’s OneDrive account beginning on October sixteenth, Gizmodo reports.
Beginning in October, beneath the now-rescinded coverage, pictures in a person’s saved picture albums and OneDrive Gallery would rely towards its cloud-based quota of 5 gigabytes. As soon as the brand new coverage went into impact, customers with pictures surpassing the restrict would now not have the ability to save new OneDrive information and even obtain emails in Microsoft’s free Outlook e-mail service.
When it introduced the modifications in August, Microsoft stated it will grant customers a free one-year storage bonus to compensate for the inconvenience, however that did not fulfill customers.
It’s doable that backlash over a current Outlook coverage change additionally performed a job. In February, Microsoft introduced e-mail attachments and inline photos would rely towards the five-gigabyte OneDrive restrict. Up till then, Microsoft account holders have been allowed 15GB of storage of their cloud-hosted e-mail, which included attachments and pictures, The Register reports.
Because of this, many customers complained they may now not ship or obtain emails.
“Nobody deletes attachments each time an e-mail is acquired. That is like blackmail,” one Microsoft person told 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 must delete emails with attachments frequently advert infinitum.”
It’s doable 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 is perhaps making an attempt to keep away from unwittingly giving Google extra prospects.