NO unlimited OneDrive storage for Office subscribers

Another person made the same point in the last week or so.

MS is going to have to publish a retraction or someone is going to wake up and start a class action suit ...

There is definitely a mixed message.  A quick google found several variations on the announcement of unlimited storage ....

Although the current Buy 365 pages do say 1TB, this original announcements do not mention any limits to the unlimited offer:

https://blogs.office.com/2014/10/27/onedrive-now-unlimited-storage-office-365-subscribers/

This next article mentions getting early access to the unlimited, but that everyone would get it eventually ...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2838450/microsoft-beefs-up-office-365-with-unlimited-onedrive-cloud-storage.html

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Note: the link to "signing up " for early access still works. I don't know if offer still works (Don't have 365 to test it on).

This article, Feb 2015 (4 months later) does not mention unlimited and bumps OneDrive limits to 100GB (less than eventual 1TB and much less than "unlimited"

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2886737/microsoft-hands-out-100gb-of-free-onedrive-storage.html

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The latest promotion, however, applies to OneDrive, Microsoft's consumer-grade service. Only U.S. residents are eligible.

OneDrive comes with 15GB of free storage -- as opposed to Dropbox's free 2GB -- but the new offer provides 100GB extra storage for one year, at which time users' accounts will revert to their original allotments. Users will then have to pay to add more files to the cloud service; existing files stored there will not be deleted.

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This article:

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-limits-of-unlimited-onedrive-storage/

specifically identifies some limits on the "unlimited" designation

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a reader had emailed me to ask whether or not Microsoft was also addressing other issues — like the maximum size allowed for a single file or the limit on the total number of files. As it turns out, Microsoft did eventually address the file size limitation — raising the 2 GB maximum up to 10 GB. However, Microsoft has not yet done anything about the fact that it maxes out at 20,000 files.

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I contacted Microsoft support and confirmed that this is, in fact, still a limitation for OneDrive. It's a limitation that Microsoft is aware of, and one that Microsoft is working to address in the near future.

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Maybe it is time for an official press release from MS clarifying the question.

I've heard from a handful of folks who actually got said offer after some unspecified magic handshake. But Rhon points out, the terms of unlimited OneDrive storage were unambiguously offered to ALL Office subscribers:

Today’s post was written by Julia White, general manager of Office 365 Technical Product Management.

Today, storage limits just became a thing of the past with Office 365.  OneDrive and OneDrive for Business will now offer unlimited storage—at no additional cost—to our Office 365 consumer and business customers.

OneDrive makes sure you always have all your important content on all your devices and enables multiple people to collaborate and co-author a single document at the same time. Gone are the days of not having that document right when you need it or managing multiple versions of the same document. With OneDrive there is always just one source of truth available across all your devices. What’s more, with Office Delve, that important document your co-worker shared with you on their OneDrive actually finds you, versus you having to find it.

This is just one of many reasons why the value of cloud storage really comes to life when it’s integrated with the tools you use to communicate, create and collaborate. That’s why OneDrive and OneDrive for Business are included as part of Office 365—built right in for all of our customers to use.

With unlimited OneDrive storage coming to Office 365 subscribers across consumer, commercial and education plans you can get more done on the devices you love—the possibilities are, well, unlimited. You can read more about today’s news and what’s next for OneDrive over on the OneDrive blog.

—Julia White

There's no mention of a limit, the offer is still up on various official Microsoft sites, and I have never found a retraction or notification in public as to what happened to the offer. And if you Bing "unlimited onedrive storage" there are a million hits. Admittedly I only skimmed the first dozen or so, but all appear to be parroting the original announcement of Microsoft's official rollout of Unlimited OneDrive service and how great things are going to be. Presumably people are still signing up for the service based on what is still up in black & white only to spend the time it takes to fill 1tb before they figure out they've been duped.