E-Mail From OneDrive
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Did anyone else get the e-mail from OneDrive about the free year of Office 365 Personal?
Sometimes it makes you wonder if they do something "bad" just to offer something "good" for the consumer, which is turn be good for them (Microsoft).
Content:
As you know, the amount of storage that comes with most OneDrive accounts is changing from 15 GB to 5 GB. You previously confirmed your desire to keep your 15 GB of free storage (and the 15 GB camera roll bonus if you have it).* As a result, your account will not be affected by these changes.
We also want to extend an offer that we are making available to users who are close to or will be over the new storage limits. You can claim a free one-year subscription to Office 365 Personal.** This subscription includes 1 TB of OneDrive storage.
We want to apologize for any inconvenience these changes may have caused you. We listened to our users’ feedback, and we are committed to making OneDrive the best option for people who want to be productive and do more. -
Typical upsale - nothing new here.
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I didn't get that. Mine just says:
Important changes to OneDrive
As you know, the amount of storage that comes with most OneDrive accounts is changing from 15 GB to 5 GB. You previously confirmed your desire to keep your 15 GB of free storage (and the 15 GB camera roll bonus if you have it).* As a result, your account will not be affected by these changes.
We want to apologize for any inconvenience these changes may have caused you. We listened to our users’ feedback, and we are committed to making OneDrive the best option for people who want to be productive and do more.
Thank you for using OneDrive.
– The OneDrive Team -
I've received the same e-mail yesterday.
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I received the email for one account early yesterday and a different account last night.
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I got one too. They seem to do a lot of back pedalling on stuff. cough Xbox one cough
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Maybe, as I alluded to, it was just a ploy to get people to Office 365 Personal.
Which, if you think about it, for $10 a month is a pretty good deal.
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@BRRABill said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
Maybe, as I alluded to, it was just a ploy to get people to Office 365 Personal.
Which, if you think about it, for $10 a month is a pretty good deal.
How much does that include outside of the office suite of programs? At $120/year it's hard to appeal to me over and above free.
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@BRRABill said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
Maybe, as I alluded to, it was just a ploy to get people to Office 365 Personal.
Which, if you think about it, for $10 a month is a pretty good deal.
LibreOffice is free and ownCloud on Vultr is just $10/mo for 500GB. And those don't get randomly taken away at a whim. $10 for Office 365 for personal use sounds like a bad deal to me.
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Sigh, this argument again. LOL.
For people who use Office and also OneDrive (or any other paid service) it's not bad.
ownCloud needs to be set up, and for the same $10 a month you are also getting 500GB more storage and access to Office for 5 people in your house. So more storage and free Office for the same $10.
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@BRRABill said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
Sigh, this argument again. LOL.
Yep, rinse and repeat, it's a new day.
For people who use Office and also OneDrive (or any other paid service) it's not bad.
ownCloud needs to be set up, and for the same $10 a month you are also getting 500GB more storage and access to Office for 5 people in your house. So more storage and free Office for the same $10.
Right. If I were already paying to use Microsoft's other things, then it'd be silly not to get the most I possibly could for my money.
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@BRRABill said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
ownCloud needs to be set up, and for the same $10 a month you are also getting 500GB more storage and access to Office for 5 people in your house. So more storage and free Office for the same $10.
Access for five instead of unlimited access. That's not a good deal. And 500GB more... I keep hearing this but anytime someone tries to use OneDrive it seems to shrink or not be the size advertised. Vultr size is what it is.
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@scottalanmiller said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
@BRRABill said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
Maybe, as I alluded to, it was just a ploy to get people to Office 365 Personal.
Which, if you think about it, for $10 a month is a pretty good deal.
LibreOffice is free and ownCloud on Vultr is just $10/mo for 500GB. And those don't get randomly taken away at a whim. $10 for Office 365 for personal use sounds like a bad deal to me.
Libra Office is local only (currently) and $10 for 500 GB? O365 Personal is $69/yr for one person and 1 TB (lowered from unlimited to 1 TB) and O365 Family is $99/yr all 5 people each get 1 TB of storage. So that makes it $6/month for personal and $8.50/month for family - and you don't have to manage anything like you do with Vultr.
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@Dashrender said
Libra Office is local only (currently) and $10 for 500 GB? O365 Personal is $69/yr for one person and 1 TB (lowered from unlimited to 1 TB) and O365 Family is $99/yr all 5 people each get 1 TB of storage. So that makes it $6/month for personal and $8.50/month for family - and you don't have to manage anything like you do with Vultr.
Careful, they are going to take your ML card away.
(^sarcasm
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@Dashrender said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
Libra Office is local only (currently) and $10 for 500 GB?
LibreOffice (not Libra Office) has its online component, called CORE, already available for download. It's on my list to get working in a how to shortly.
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@scottalanmiller said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
@BRRABill said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
ownCloud needs to be set up, and for the same $10 a month you are also getting 500GB more storage and access to Office for 5 people in your house. So more storage and free Office for the same $10.
Access for five instead of unlimited access. That's not a good deal. And 500GB more... I keep hearing this but anytime someone tries to use OneDrive it seems to shrink or not be the size advertised. Vultr size is what it is.
the only problems I know of on sizes for OneDrive is that they renig'ed on the unlimited offer and reduced it down to 1 TB for paid plans, and 5 GB for free plans (which weren't unlimited, but some people hand managed to get 100+ GB through different offers over time, and that was being removed too).
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@scottalanmiller said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
@Dashrender said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
Libra Office is local only (currently) and $10 for 500 GB?
LibreOffice (not Libra Office) has its online component, called CORE, already available for download. It's on my list to get working in a how to shortly.
Cool - didn't know that - I recall a post here months ago talking about ownCloud and LibraOffice, but had no idea where it was.
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@Dashrender said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
So that makes it $6/month for personal and $8.50/month for family - and you don't have to manage anything like you do with Vultr.
True, although I've found Vultr less work to manage than a O365 account
And the Vultr approach is unlimited use. So while it is a big $10/mo if you want 500GB, it's unlimited users. Want to let your extended family use it? No problem. Hundreds of users? No problem. It quickly gets a lot cheaper if you go beyond five users. And they already have the ownCloud / hosted LibreOffice integration available (supposedly.)So unlimited office users, unlimited hosted office users, unlimited users with a real 500GB that you know you get to keep for $10 instead of five users and 1TB that you don't know if you will have for any length of time.
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@Dashrender said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
@scottalanmiller said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
@Dashrender said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
Libra Office is local only (currently) and $10 for 500 GB?
LibreOffice (not Libra Office) has its online component, called CORE, already available for download. It's on my list to get working in a how to shortly.
Cool - didn't know that - I recall a post here months ago talking about ownCloud and LibraOffice, but had no idea where it was.
I just saw this week that their partner said that it was available for download and that the ownCloud integrated download was nearly ready.
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@scottalanmiller said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
@Dashrender said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
@scottalanmiller said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
@Dashrender said in E-Mail From OneDrive:
Libra Office is local only (currently) and $10 for 500 GB?
LibreOffice (not Libra Office) has its online component, called CORE, already available for download. It's on my list to get working in a how to shortly.
Cool - didn't know that - I recall a post here months ago talking about ownCloud and LibraOffice, but had no idea where it was.
I just saw this week that their partner said that it was available for download and that the ownCloud integrated download was nearly ready.
I hope they just add the Libre Office stuff as a plugin to ownCloud... If they integrate it too tightly it will make it more difficult to keep oC at the current version.
