Michal Ždanský Cloud storage is starting to get aggressively cheaper. The whole trend was kind of started by Google, which significantly reduced the prices of Google Drive subscriptions. Apple also offered very favorable prices for the newly introduced iCloud Drive. Yesterday, Microsoft also announced significant discounts for its cloud storage OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive), up to 70 percent of the original price. What's more, all Office 365 subscribers get 1TB for free.
Increasing storage for existing subscribers isn't exactly a new thing, Microsoft has already offered 20GB of extra space. He recently announced that Business subscription users will get that one terabyte, but now he has expanded the offer to other subscription types - Home, Personal and University. It's an interesting move from Microsoft to get more users to subscribe to Office 365, which is needed to edit documents in Word, Excel and Powerpoint for the iPad, for example.
Discounts will be equally available for all subscription types. 15GB will be free for all users (originally 7GB), 100GB will cost $1,99 (previously $7,49) and 200GB will cost $3,99 (previously $11,49). Microsoft's cloud storage will make even more sense in iOS 8 thanks to the possibility of integration directly into the system. Apple's own solution, iCloud Drive, currently works out a bit worse than Microsoft's offering. 5 GB is free for everyone, you get 20 GB for €0,89 per month, just 200 GB of storage is the same as Microsoft's price, i.e. €3,59. Dropbox, which has so far resisted the aggressive prices for space on remote servers, is currently the most expensive of the popular storages.
"extended for other subscription types - Home, Personal and University." - What about student? Do we get too?
I still see my 7GB :-/
software paid for with a subscription is a road to hell. It is true that I have the original license of the efforts and I think that the versions I have will be enough for me for some time to come. :) It all boils down to completely *strong* parts. few people buy software for a year or two, when they learn to work with it and start using it. Both Adobe and M$ pretty much lost it for me. P.S. Box.net offered 50GB free for everyone and Dropbox 20GB (or 30GB) free for VS students. And you can store whatever you want there without censorship, which is not the case with stupid M$.