Microsoft's official OneDrive blog announces storage plans, file size limits, developer features, and service changes.
HN links it for OneDrive announcements; commenters are skeptical of the changes, calling the 'unlimited' storage rebranding and the policy change doublespeak.
It's because they DO look through people's files for their own purposes. Example:
https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive_changes/
> a small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings.
I'm pretty certain they didn't get permission to look at their users movie collections or DVR recordings, they were just flagged for high usage and they went right in to see what those users were storing. For any form of data collection they do, it's a guarantee they're analyzing the outliers... in fact they're practically bragging about the fact they do.
- The Mac Client for OneDrive Pro ( SkyDrive Pro ) seems to be 'In Development'[1] (OneDrive For Business Sync for Mac). But the OneDrive App works for OneDrive for Business too.
- OneDrive now supports 10GB files.[2]
- I am not certain but from what I know. The 20,000 limit is a suggested limit which isn't imposed. One can upload more than 20,000 files but above 20,000 files there is some sync issue with the present sync tool.
[1]https://office.com/roadmap
[2]https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive-now-supports-10-gb-files/
That's still pretty bad, there could be millions of leaked document URL's in the logs of severs all over the internet and users haven't been notified.
It looks like Microsoft Onedrive did a similar thing too:
https://blog.onedrive.com/update-for-shared-links/
>"We chose not to disable all previously shared links, because the change only applies to a small fraction of shared files. If customers disable and then re-share a document, this will prevent further access to a document that might have been accessed."
OneDrive recently increased its maximum supported file size from 2 GB to 10 GB,[+]. To echo other comments in this thread, it's likely that "Unlimited" storage is a rebranding and publicity move because most paid users were not using anywhere near the 1+ TB they had access to anyways. To me, it seems likely that the file size limit could be lifted for similar purposes soon.
[+] https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive-now-supports-10-gb-files/
The OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) blog is on Azure and is built on WordPress. You can reach http://blog.onedrive.com/ through http://onedrive-wp.azurewebsites.net/
While this isn't much, it tells that not everyone is completely infected with not invented here (NIH) at Microsoft.
this was announced lathered in doublespeak back early november.
https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive_changes/