Microsoft on Monday announced Office 365 subscribers will now be able to avail unlimited online storage on OneDrive for no additional cost.
The storage hike will be offered on OneDrive and will be rolled out to Office 365 Home, Personal, University and Business subscribers over the coming few months. Users can opt-in to be upgraded early over at Microsoft’s OneDrive preview site.
“Moving forward, all Office 365 customers will get unlimited OneDrive storage at no additional cost. We’ve started rolling this out today to Office 365 Home, Personal, and University customers,” Microsoft noted.
“For OneDrive for Business customers, unlimited storage will be listed on the Office 365 roadmap in the coming days and we will begin updating the First Release customers in 2015, aligned with our promise to provide ample notification for significant service changes.”
The storage boost comes just a few months after the Redmond increased the limit for Office 365 users from 25 GB to 1 TB per user. The Office 365 Personal available for $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year is cheapest subscription offering unlimited storage and access to the full Microsoft Office suite (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc).
Comparatively rivals Google and Dropbox charges $9.99 a month for 1TB of storage space, without offering access to the additional Office software. Apple’s new iCloud Drive offers 200 GB of storage for $4 a month.
The software giant recently announced it has more than 7 million Office 365 subscribers currently, which grew by 25 percent last quarter alone.
