Microsoft Outlook Storage Message - reducing from 15GB to 5GB

Anonymous
2023-02-28T09:15:26+00:00

Hi, starting today a pink bar at the top of my outlook page stating 'From February 1st, you'll need more storage to send or receive emails.' then provides 2 links to 'Manage Storage' & 'Get More Storage'. There is a second window bottom left hand side stating in red font 'Microsoft Storage' '14.6GB used of 5GB (292%)' 'Get More Storage'. What is going on? I've had this account for 10 + years.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-04-20T18:51:28+00:00

    Yes you have 15GB INCLUDING attachments. That is specifically stated. But somehow there is someone within MicroSoft proposed to also add said attachments toward your onedrive. In any normal company, such an idea would be shot down and the person with that idea would be demoted. In MicroSoft however, this insane notion was accepted to be a swell idea. To say they lost their marbles would be an understatement.

    I have had this emailadress for decades so I do not want to abandon it. So I deleted enormous amounts of mails with attachments and my Onedrive is now below 5GB and my mailbox is 7GB, so yes, you indeed DO seem to have 15GB of emailstorage including attachments, but the attachments alone are not allowed to be over 5GB.

    The following calculation is very flawed, but I am making it anyway for entertainment purposes... My mailbox is 2GB over the 5GB OneDrive limit, so those 2GB are purely mailmessages without attachments. It took me over 25 years to collect those emails. So with the remaining 8GB, I am set to receive another 100 years worth of emails! Why am I even complaining about this GREAT company??? They just want to make sure even the condolances after my passing will still arrive at my emailaddress. Just make sure to send them without attachments...

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-04-20T20:12:36+00:00

    😂😂😂

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-23T01:01:27+00:00

    This is what my husband used to fix it for me . It worked !

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=5JoaU8r5w24&feature=share

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-03T01:38:25+00:00

    Microsoft are simply trying to blackmail you into buying more storage. Even if you delete OneDrive and the excess items, it wont let you send or receive for days afterwards. Really handy when you are just about to leave to go overseas.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-05T18:02:49+00:00

    This is an unnecessary nuance. I was unable to receive emails because of this new policy, thankfully the other parties informed me that emails sent to me were bounced back and brought this issue to my attention. I have a hotmail account for a very long time and now I'm seriously thinking about switching to something else. A 5gb or even 15gb nowadays is a little. Microsoft should at least give basic email accounts a storage of 50gb or more. I hope this message makes it to the decision-makers.

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