Sharing Microsoft 365 with 3+ individuals? Your OneDrive is shrinking
It’s a blended bag. Solo customers who had been beforehand capped at 1TB now get twice the storage to play with, and anybody who was sharing with just one different particular person isn’t going through an enormous distinction. But when your account was break up between three or extra customers, it’s a giant downgrade.
What stings essentially the most is that Microsoft isn’t adjusting the pricing on any of the plans. Microsoft 365 Household stays $12.99/month or $129.99/yr, whereas Premium stays $19.99/month or $199.99/yr. In the meantime, Microsoft 365 Professional is a whopping $99.99/month with no annual choice.
On this assist web page concerning the change, Microsoft makes it clear that it’s one shared storage quantity: “The first subscriber and as much as 5 further members draw from the identical shared storage pool.” Nevertheless, that doesn’t imply entry is shared between all customers: “Whereas storage quotas are shared, recordsdata stay personal.”
And you may broaden the scale of the storage pool with add-on purchases. It doesn’t sound like particular person customers can enhance their very own particular person caps, however moderately solely contribute to the shared cap: “Storage add-ons bought by subscription members are mechanically added to the shared pool. Eligible relations’ free storage grants additionally contribute to the shared pool.”
The non-shareable plans stay unchanged: Microsoft 365 Fundamental will get 100GB of storage for $1.99/month or $19.99/yr, whereas Microsoft 365 Private will get 1TB of storage for $9.99/month or $99.99/yr.
