Forum Discussion
New family storage limits from 6 TB to only 2 TB
Respectfully, I think the discussion keeps focusing on how customers should adapt to the change, rather than on the change itself.
If Microsoft's objective was flexibility, 6 TB of shared storage would have achieved that goal.
Moving from up to 6 TB total to 2 TB shared is not just a flexibility update. It also substantially reduces included storage capacity.
The question many customers are asking is simple: why are we receiving less storage for the same subscription price?
To be fair, the extra AI capabilities were previously only available to the account owner, and that has been extended to all family members. But I suspect subscribers value storage space much as AI features. And the AI features are still at the consumer level, not at the enterprise level. I could have traded 2 TB for the extra AI, but 4 TB is a big loss for me.
I suspect they are trying to drive AI adoption with this change. It serves their purposes but ignores why you and I—and likely the majority—pay for this service. AI has many options and people will go elsewhere before they pay (much) money. Plenty of free options. The value of the family option has decreased. As a Mac user I may dig into iCloud or Backblaze, though honestly I prefer OneDrive for my needs.
I wish there was a Copilot button for me in classic Outlook for my Premium consumer M365 subscription. I am afraid to look for this by switching to "new Outlook" because I am not sure what it will look like and if I can then get back to my current "classic" view.
But you'd think that Premium would include the Copilot button in classic Outlook and not force me to copy/paste into a separate Copilot instance. The one thing I do as a retired person, that I did as a working person, is deal with lots of email. The content is different, but the volume is still high.
If my lovely wife asks if classic Outlook will summarize an email directly, once she gets the AI features, I will have to say no, she still has to copy/paste like me.I’m on the Mac version, but I can go to the new outlook and still go back to the old. As long as you cancel the nag message that tries to get you to move for good. It crops up occasionally when you are in the new.
Honestly, for ME, the new version offers me no benefits and reduces some of the granular options that classic has. I’m gonna stick with classic for now.