![]() ![]() A free Google account also includes Docs, a set of office productivity apps that competes against Office Online. With a free Google account, people get 15GB of storage for files in Drive, Gmail messages and Google+ photos, and can purchase 100GB of additional storage for $1.99 per month, price levels Microsoft is now matching. Meanwhile, the Microsoft move seems directed at closing the competitive gap with Google's consumer cloud storage offerings. Dropbox Pro also has options for 200GB for $19.99 per user/month and 500GB for $49.99 per user/month. People can upgrade to Dropbox Pro, which gives them 100GB for $9.99 per user/month, which again doesn't compare well with the new $1.99 per user/month OneDrive pricing for that same amount of storage. ![]() The aggressive move by Microsoft tightens the competitive screws on rivals like Dropbox, Apple and Google.ĭropbox options for consumers start with a free 2GB plan, which pales in comparison with the 15GB OneDrive now offers right out of the box. "We want to give you enough storage space so you use OneDrive for everything," said Angus Logan, OneDrive's marketing director. These Office 365 editions include the full-featured versions of apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook and others. The increase to 1TB also applies to Office 365 University, which is for college and university students and costs $79.99 for four years. That means Office 365 Home, which costs $9.99 per month and comes with five user licenses, includes 1TB for each person, while Office 365 Personal, which costs $6.99 per month, comes with 1TB for its one licensed user. An extra 100GB will now cost $1.99 per user/month, down from $7.49, and 200GB will cost $3.99 per user/month, down from $11.49.įor Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal customers, Microsoft is also sending OneDrive storage through the roof, from 20GB to 1TB per user. Microsoft is also slashing the cost of additional storage for OneDrive. People get access to this free OneDrive storage also when they sign up for Office Online, the free, lightweight Web-based version of Office, and also when they sign up for, Microsoft's free webmail service. The company will more than double to 15GB the storage capacity in the free, stand-alone OneDrive service for consumers. Microsoft will dramatically increase capacity and lower prices for OneDrive, increasing pressure on other cloud storage providers and also sweetening the deal for prospective and current Office 365 customers. ![]()
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