Microsoft rewards OneDrive users with 15GB Free Storage - How Office 365 users can get 1TB Free Storage as they Chase Google Drive

“Our data tells us that 3 out of 4 people have less than 15GB of files stored on their PC. Factoring in what they may also have stored on other devices, we believe providing 15 GB for free right out of the gate – with no hoops to jump through – will make it much easier for people to have their documents, videos, and photos available in one place.”

OneDrive Group Program Manager Omar Shashine commenting on OneDrive increasing free storage to 15GB

Microsoft has done it yet again! People, its party time! Queue the Song “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke ft. Pharrell!

Folks, you gotta run out and get a Microsoft Outlook Account and sign up for Microsoft OneDrive, even if it’s just to get a Skype on your Browser as I’d explained in my Geezam blog article entitled “Skype-ing from your Browser now possible as WhatsApp conspires to kill International Calling”.

This time they’ve decided to increase the Storage space on their Microsoft OneDrive Cloud Storage from their measly 7GB to 15GB by July 2014 as described in  “MICROSOFT UPS FREE ONEDRIVE STORAGE TO 15GB, OFFERS 1TB TO OFFICE 365 SUBSCRIBERS”, published June 23, 2014 By Konrad Krawczyk, Digitaltrends and “Microsoft OneDrive jumps to 15GB Free, and 1TB for Office 365”, published June 23, 2014 8:00 AM PDT by Charles Cooper, CNET News.

This great gift to Cloud-kind was announced on Monday June 23^rd 2014 on their Microsoft OneDrive Official Blog Post. Not to mention all those Office 365 users both on Windows 8 as well as on their Apple iPads who’ll be getting this step-up by July 2014! To be precise, this is what’s shaking down as Microsoft has made other changes to its Cloud storage offerings as well:

1.      15 GB Free storage, an increase from 7GB

2.      1TB of free Microsoft OneDrive space for Office 365, up from 20GB

3.      1TB per person for a maximum of five (5) persons for Office 365 Home, up from 20GB 

For those of you who like robust professional Cloud Drive Storage, price drops are coming your way as well:

1.      US$6.99/month (£5.99/month) for 1TB of storage for Office 365 Personal subscribers

2.      US$9.99/month ( £7.99/month) for 1TB of storage for Office 365 Home subscribers

3.      US$1.99 (£1.99/month) for 100GB without having to subscribe to Office 365 down from US$7.49/month

4.      US$3.99 for 200GB of Storage reduce from a price of US$11.49

So they had to up and introduce yet even MORE free storage, putting them on par with Google Drive which has long upped the ante to 15GB during Google I/O 2013 on May 15^th 2013, as described in my Geezam blog article entitled “Google Drive the Dropbox clone, now ups the ante to 15GB of Free Storage during Google I/O”.

That’s great news for managers for super large Cloud Drives such as myself, as that means that my 100GB Cloud just got bigger as described in my blog article entitled “How to create and manage a 100GB Virtual Cloud Drive including Google Drive and Dropbox - My 100GB+ Cloud Drive Dream as the popularity of my blogs is Hunger Game Catching Fire”.

How to get 15GB Storage from OneDrive – Microsoft rewards Office 360 users as they Chase Google Drive

Apparently a Natural-Language Real-time Skype Translator baked into Skype as described in my blog article entitled “Microsoft Launches Skype Translator – Star Trek Universal Translator to foster Real-Time Global Village against WhatsApp” wasn’t awesome enough.

Neither too, is their Tsar Bomba announcement of improvements to the Microsoft Surface Pro 3, which basically put it on par with the Apple Macbook Pro as explained in my blog article entitled “Microsoft launches Surface Pro 3 - Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 puts Kibosh on Tablets with Apple having to make a larger Keyboard iPad”.

And it based on yet another cheeky observation by Microsoft’s OneDrive Group Program Manager Omar Shashine, similar to the one they used to makes Group Calls in Skype free as described in my blog article entitled “How to make a Free Group Call in Skype – Google+ officially a Ghost Town Again as Microsoft gears up for WhatsApp free VoIP Calling in June 2014”.

Most 75% of registered users of Microsoft Products apparently have less than 15GB of Data stored on their desktop. How Microsoft knows this borders on the creepy and Invasion of Privacy issues, or most likely from a Marketing Survey. Either way, it’s good to know that by the 4^th of July 2014, Americans and Jamaicans who use Microsoft’s OneDrive will have something additional to celebrate.