Microsoft admits defeat on its controversial OneDrive change

Microsoft has canceled plans to update the way it stores photos on OneDrive after heavy criticism from its users.

According to Neowin, the changes, which were set to go into effect on October 16, will allow photos uploaded to your OneDrive account to count towards your data quota for each space in your account.

Let’s say you uploaded a photo and then moved it to a new album, OneDrive will deduct it from your storage quota twice. Once for the initial upload and again for the album where it is now hosted. TechRadar notes that if you host the same photo in more than one album, it’s possible that storage will be deducted for each folder the image is located.

Microsoft announced the planned changes earlier this year; However, it faced a lot of backlash from OneDrive users. This can especially affect those who host large numbers of photos on OneDrive, quickly exhausting your storage quota without any intention, regardless of whether you are a free or paid user. With insufficient space in your account, you may find other Microsoft services that may be affected, such as the inability to send emails or save documents.

This follows changes made by Microsoft to the free tier of its Outlook email service, in which the brand has imposed a size limit on attachments and images sent through Outlook. Amidst the new rules, Microsoft also had to install workarounds to make things easier for users.

Microsoft attempted to appease users for the change with a one-year Outlook storage bonus, which was activated when data changes were added to accounts and could only be used once. However, this was not enough, and the brand eventually had to withdraw its plans.

“Based on the feedback we received, we have adjusted our approach, we will no longer release this update. “We will maintain the existing photo album experience as it is today,” Microsoft said on its support website.

Brands are known for their strategy of encouraging users to make purchases within their ecosystem. This is why many people are speaking out when unnecessary changes are made to the systems in which they are financially invested.

Google faced a similar issue in April, when it had to reverse changes it made to its Drive storage that limited the number of files you could create per account to 5 million. Was. This particularly affected enterprise users who could easily create and support over 5 million files on their accounts. Several publications noted that there were several billion files in their system.

The Microsoft 365 paid subscription is especially popular because it starts with 1TB of storage as one of its benefits. If Microsoft had enabled this change, it would have created huge storage quotas for countless users.