Microsoft Digs At Cloud Competitors With New OneDrive Discounts
June 23, 2014
Grazed from ReadWrite. Author: Jodi Mardesich.
The great cloud computing war of 2014 is in full pitch. Cloud storage providers continue to jockey for the chance to store all your digital data, they’re giving away more for free and dropping the prices for their paid add-ons. Microsoft wants to remind everybody that it has significant stake in the game. Today, Microsoft announced that it is now offering 15 GB (up from 7 GB) of storage on its personal cloud storage service OneDrive for free.\
If you use Office365, Microsoft ups the ante to one terabyte. Microsoft also decreased paid storage options by up to 80%. “If you use Office, you don’t need to buy storage from anyone else,” said Angus Logan, director of marketing for OneDrive at Microsoft. “We give you more than enough to do what you need to do.”…
But is it enough to make a difference? By most accounts, Microsoft’s cloud storage offering is decent, but it may be also-ran in a very crowded field. Data on the personal cloud storage market share is fairly scarce, but in a report released in March 2013 by Strategy Analytics, Microsoft didn’t even show up in the top 10. Apple was the leader, followed by Dropbox, Amazon Cloud and Google Drive…
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