Well, if you consider it, unlimited office documents probably isn’t all that much space for most people, unlimited photos - again, probably not all that much space, and then the real meat, a 25gb space in the cloud, which is pretty much making it the new standard for free space in the cloud.
I don’t think it’ll eliminate any caps, but it might raise some. I’d just like to see Microsoft do something similar to Apple’s upcoming music archive.
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Uhh, am I missing something? This is all well and good but when did the “cloud” become an unlimited, always renewable and expandable resource like “green” energy resources? The cloud is made up of finite, physical servers that carry a cost. While that cost might be financially feasible for those companies to bear right now, I doubt that it will remain that way forever and expand. Somewhere down the line the break-even point will be passed and then someone other than the owners/maintainers of the cloud physical resources will be forced to pay. Forced to pay? Yes, because once a person, business, or organization has moved it’s data storage to the cloud they will be invested deeply enough to make it painful to try to take it back and maintain it on their own. This is like outsourcing your critical processes and operations that are essential to survival. Once the outsourcers have you they can then ask any price they want or put whatever restrictions they want on THEIR services because they know your operation no longer has the people and infrastructure to take it back. The cloud can be a great resource but there are big and potentially painful risks involved as well.
25 whole gigs - color me ‘underwhelmed’.
That is about 3 8Gig USB ‘thumb drives. And, for that price I keep control of my data.
Color me:
Private
Suspicious of anything “free”.
I wonder if there is a place to place bets on how long it will take for China to break into it.