Microsoft really gained’t roll out an unpopular OneDrive change to photograph storage

After receiving backlash from clients, Microsoft introduced it has canceled plans to impose storage limits for images in a consumer’s OneDrive account beginning on October sixteenth, Gizmodo studies.

Beginning in October, below the now-rescinded coverage, images in a consumer’s saved photograph albums and OneDrive Gallery would rely in opposition to its cloud-based quota of 5 gigabytes. As soon as the brand new coverage went into impact, customers with images surpassing the restrict would now not have the ability to save new OneDrive recordsdata and even obtain emails in Microsoft’s free Outlook electronic mail service.

When it introduced the adjustments in August, Microsoft stated it could grant customers a free one-year storage bonus to compensate for the inconvenience, however that did not fulfill customers.

It’s attainable that backlash over a latest Outlook coverage change additionally performed a task. In February, Microsoft introduced electronic mail attachments and inline pictures would rely towards the five-gigabyte OneDrive restrict. Up till then, Microsoft account holders had been allowed 15GB of storage of their cloud-hosted electronic mail, which included attachments and pictures, The Register studies.

Consequently, many customers complained they may now not ship or obtain emails.

“Nobody deletes attachments each time an electronic mail is obtained. That is like blackmail,” one Microsoft consumer instructed The Register in April when the replace began rolling out to extra customers. “MS is forcing us to purchase a subscription by the again door or to should delete emails with attachments frequently advert infinitum.”

It’s attainable the transfer might have compelled Outlook customers emigrate over to rivals like Gmail, which continued to supply a 15GB storage restrict. Maybe by backtracking on photograph storage limits, Microsoft is perhaps attempting to keep away from unwittingly giving Google extra clients.