Microsoft reducing OneDrive Storage for Office 365 plans

XxXxX · 2026-10-11T06:48:13-0400

here is my OneDrive storage

i dont have any subscription nor do i use OneDrive
i have had 25GB of storage for about 20 years or so.

best of luck Steve ..

Bree · 2026-10-11T07:05:26-0400

XxXxX said:
i dont have any subscription nor do i use OneDrive
i have had 25GB of storage for about 20 years or so.

You're lucky, you got it when it was SkyDrive and have benefited from a 'grandfathering' offer when MS started to cut down of free space.

Yes, there are people who have enjoyed 25GB of free space, back when OneDrive was called SkyDrive and a Microsoft Account was called a Windows Live account. However, in 2012, Microsoft decreased the amount of free SkyDrive space to 7GB, but allowed people who already had 25GB of space to claim that amount for a limited time.

Fast forward to this week, when Microsoft increased the free space from 7GB to 15GB for all free users. People who already had the 25GB amount of free space grandfathered into their account have since discovered that technically, their free space has been reduced down to 15GB. However, they also saw that they have a "loyalty bonus" of 10GB of extra space, which basically means they didn't lose anything.

https://www.windowscentral.com/onedrive-users-grandfathered-25gb-free-space-get-keep-it

motoman · 2026-10-11T07:09:17-0400

XxXxX said:
here is my OneDrive storage

View attachment 186223

i dont have any subscription nor do i use OneDrive
i have had 25GB of storage for about 20 years or so.

best of luck Steve ..

I have the same thing, problem is mine's actually used and close to full. Not sure if this will affect us or not.

BruceR · 2026-10-11T07:42:10-0400

maur0 said:
My question is: if a user has 5 TB my files on OneDrive, now that the limit has changed to 2 TB, what happens? Will the files on that drive be deleted?

Each user had a 1TB limit, as explained in post #1.

Edwin · 2026-10-11T07:50:12-0400

Potentially, if 6 users have collectively used up 5.5TB of storage space, sumpthin's gonna happen!!!

pparks1 · 2026-10-11T14:46:21-0400

cheaterslick said:
Yay, I'm not affected by this change as I don't have a Microsoft 365 Business subscription.

To be clear, this isnt a change with the Business accounts. This is a change to thr individual and family plans.

pparks1 · 2026-10-11T14:53:51-0400

SlicEnDicE said:
Copilot is not worth that much. LLMs can also be made much more efficient, smaller, smarter and faster. They can be ran locally and privately on quite a huge range of hardware for free. We don't need huge server pools for this.

I've actually found copilot to be pretty decent. We mostly use Claude code at work, and a few of the guys laugh at me for using Copilot, but for a lot of things it returns answers a lot faster, so I always start there. If I cannot get the answers I want. Or they dont work, then its off to claude I go. Some of our official processes for getting things done now require using Claude code, so I don't have any options as to whether I use it or not.

I have played with some local AI models at home. I have a 32GB mac mini for this very task. While it does work, it is quite slow. For simple tasks and such when I am not in a hurry, its perfectly adequate. For for more complex coding type things, its really slow. You can buy a lot of chatGPT subscription time for thr price of a 5090 video card with lots of memory to stuff your LLM into.

BruceR · 2026-10-11T14:56:21-0400

pparks1 said:
To be clear, this isnt a change with the Business accounts. This is a change to thr individual and family plans.

Just family though? No change to individual (Personal still 1TB).

Edwin · 2026-10-11T16:35:34-0400

I've still got 1TB under the Family gig!

I should upload about 975GB of useless files, then see what happens when this plan expires!!!

pseymour · 2026-10-11T16:38:32-0400

TraderGary said:
Recent article? Do you have a link?

I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed

Why bother with Microsoft's built-in Copilot AI when you can never be sure an advertised feature will be accessible, let alone work?

www.pcworld.com

TraderGary · 2026-10-11T17:39:08-0400

pseymour said:
I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed

Why bother with Microsoft's built-in Copilot AI when you can never be sure an advertised feature will be accessible, let alone work?

www.pcworld.com

I asked Copilot to analyze the article and got several interesting pages.

Hachman's goal was to find duplicate photos throughout OneDrive. [pcworld.com]

That's a very specific file management task.

Today's Copilot implementations are generally optimized for:

answering questions,
summarizing documents,
researching content,
generating text,

not acting as a full-fledged storage analysis engine.

I completely understand why he wanted that capability, but Microsoft's documentation never really positions Copilot as a OneDrive duplicate-photo manager.

He extrapolates from one bad experience to the entire product.

The article ends up sounding like:

"This feature didn't work the way I expected, therefore I may abandon Copilot altogether."

That's an emotional reaction, not necessarily a technical conclusion.

Copilot still performs quite well for:

document summaries,
writing assistance,
research,
image generation,
Microsoft 365 integration.

Even Hachman acknowledges that it works for some use cases.

I'd rate the article:

80% valid criticism
20% frustration-driven overreaction

The criticism of Microsoft's confusing licensing, inconsistent rollout strategy, and sometimes unclear feature capabilities is very fair. [pcworld.com]

However, I don't come away convinced that Copilot is fundamentally broken. I come away thinking Microsoft is still struggling to turn a collection of disparate AI features into a coherent product experience.

For power users who use Copilot primarily as a research and troubleshooting partner, I think it is already considerably more useful than the experience Hachman describes. The gap between Microsoft's marketing and the product's actual capabilities is the real issue, not necessarily the underlying AI itself.

Edwin · 2026-10-11T17:53:53-0400

That's pretty much the way Gemini sees it...

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