The folks in Redmond have royally angered many of their users. A year or so ago, Microsoft promised unlimited cloud storage on OneDrive for Office 365 Subscribers. Now they have pulled the rug out on those promises and gone back to the original 1 Terabyte limit. According to Microsoft, there were a handful of users who abused the system. But rather than punish the few, they chose to publish the many. Also the free service was cut from 15GB to 5GB.
Now, I will be honest here. I use OneDrive for most of my data backups including all my photos…and I am nowhere near one terabyte. So I am not upset.. I just think it was a bad public relations move by Microsoft. But it will blow over. I think what happened was the accountants looked at the numbers and the costs of the vast amount of equipment it takes for free storage and figured it wasn’t worth it. But, I do wonder why they cut the free service from 15 GB to 5 GB.
On another note, Apple released their new Apple TV into the wild. It is supposed to compete with the Roku box, Google TV and the Amazon Fire TV. I watched two video podcasts on Apple’s newest device this week and let me tell you it can be very difficult to set up. The host of one show said they had to stop the recording of the show to get things figured out. Apple TV is also missing some key pieces like Amazon Prime TV and Google TV. So, for me, the bottom line was the Roku box is still superior...and much cheaper.
On a personal note, I will not put out another blog next week as I will be in Southern Utah photographing the autumn colors in and around Zion National Park. But I should be back in Tucson the following week. So until then, have fun, but behave yourself. -JRC
Tech News and Opinions
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For Office Home, Personal, and University users, you will no longer be offered unlimited storage. Instead, those subscriptions will include 1 TB of OneDrive storage. For users of the free service, the announcement is especially bad as your storage will be cut from 15 GB to 5GB, this is for new and current users."
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Mobile Computing
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Thanks to our mobile gadgets, we all have the power to capture, share, and access images and video from around the world instantaneously. It has changed the way we express ourselves
Microsoft Created an Android App That Intelligently Organizes Your Phone
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