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Submission + - OneDrive delivers unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 subscribers (onedrive.com)

FlyHelicopters writes: Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, and others have been competing to become your favorite place to store stuff in the cloud. Just this past June, Microsoft upgraded Office 365 users from 25GB to 1TB, now they are upping the ante again to unlimited.

Google is also competing with Google Drive for Work, for $10 per month, you get 1TB of space, or if you have 5 or more accounts, then you get unlimited space. Since 5 accounts to get unlimited space is $50 per month, and Office 365 offers 5 accounts for $10 per month total, the Microsoft option would clearly be the less expensive choice. Microsoft also offers a personal account option for $8 per month for a single user, also with unlimited OneDrive storage.

There remains a single file size limit of 10GB per file, it is not clear if that limit will be removed with this upgrade.

How would you use unlimited cloud storage?

Comment Re:I don't really see the point. (Score 1) 130

Sigh... The point went right over your head...

The move to 2GB will actually be "required", and thus matter, in 3 years.

Just like a lot of apps no longer run on the iPad 1 or 2 due to the lower amount of RAM, app devs aren't going to make apps require 2GB of RAM for awhile, but once enough iPads have it, then it becomes normal.

Do I REALLY have to spell that out on a tech site?

Comment Re: I don't really see the point. (Score 1) 130

The original iPad is actually now really out of date, but then it was underpowered to start with. :)

It has a single core, 256MB of RAM, and frankly it is so far beyond even an iPad 4, much less an Air or Air 2, that it really is not useful for much beyond e-mail and very light web browsing.

Comment Re:I don't really see the point. (Score 1) 130

It's not a high-end gaming platform - it certainly has a lot of games, but few of them are graphically demanding.

It is a chicken and egg problem...

If better CPU and GPU never arrive, then better games and applications won't either...

This will prompt software devs to move along in power and advancement, and make everything else out run smoother, while allowing more stuff to run in the background...

It won't happen tomorrow, and frankly we may need 3 more releases for this new power level to become "standard", but it has to start somewhere.

After all, the original iPad had, what... 256MB of RAM? The iPad 2 had 512MB, it wasn't until the iPad 3 that we had 1GB.

The move to 2GB will matter... in about 3 years. :) Or now, when you consider that having multiple web pages open can be a problem in 1GB.

Comment Re:Snowden (Score 1) 221

Cry me a fucking river. When the Feds started violating the constitution, they lost all legitimacy and became nothing better than thugs. Mere gangbangers. A fetid swamp of pestilent human garbage.

But of course, as their greatest apologist -- and if you aren't getting paid you're a total retard -- they can do no wrong. If the NSA said they needed to eat baby brains to boost their mental ability to crack codes, you'd be donating your sperm to them on an hourly basis. I'm sure it takes little more than a picture of Clapper committing perjury to get you to jiz in your pants.

Comment Re:Snowden (Score 2) 221

I used to think like this but I'm not so sure anymore. If we had planetary rule, it might be all rosy and ponies like the Federation of Planets, but it might also (maybe more probably) be corrupt and abusive. With multiple exclusive jurisdictions, at least there are areas to which one can escape (if escape is possible) when things get too bad because there is a border drawn around the corruption and abuse. It's almost certainly true though, that all governments are just institutionalized repositories for the corruptible and abusive elements of society -- like mafias.

Comment Re:Gabe Newell is perhaps the biggest driver of th (Score 2) 77

Yes . . . and it has.

Linux has about 1% of the overall desktop market...

It has held that number for a long time now...

It isn't growing...

Perhaps you just have a different viewpoint, or perhaps you view success differently, or... well I'm not sure what...

Linux is a success in the server market, but an abject failure in the desktop market. That is simply not likely to change.

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