Microsoft had announced last year that would reduce the free space offered in OneDrive, but its users didn't take that all too well. Microsoft started informing OneDrive users about space reductions in free accounts in April 2016. If you don’t delete files to comply with the new limits within 1 year, your files may be deleted. For now, you have 14 days to decide what to keep and what to delete, until Microsoft enforces the limits to your account. you will have access to its contents, but will not be able to upload new files). Users who have more than 5GB of space taken up in their OneDrive accounts will not have their extra files deleted, but the whole account will become read only (i.e. Those who are subscribed to Microsoft's OneDrive free services will now have 5GB available instead of the 15GB that was available until today. The 15 GB camera roll storage bonus will also be discontinued.Microsoft will start 'cutting' OneDrive’s total storage space of 15GB that was offered in the past for free, after a relative news announcement, and a some early warnings that started a few months ago. Then in November the company said that 'Free OneDrive storage will decrease from 15 GB to 5 GB for all users, current and new. Many users had 30GB of free storage, based on a 15GB offer plus 15GB additional storage to smartphone users on any platform who used OneDrive for their cloud camera roll. Microsoft had encouraged users to store photos and documents in OneDrive by making it a key feature of Windows and Windows Phone.

For this, we are truly sorry and would like to apologize to the community,' says Douglas Pearce, Group Program Manager.

We realize the announcement came across as blaming customers for using our product. Since then, we've heard clearly from our Windows and OneDrive fans about the frustration and disappointment we have caused. 'In November we made a business decision to reduce storage limits for OneDrive.

Microsoft has apologized to OneDrive users upset by the unexpected removal of their 30GB free storage – and is offering existing users a chance to keep their free storage if they click a special link.

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