'When we did the original 1TB, there was a lot of analysis about what was right for customers and our partners. 'We've been evaluating this for quite a while,' Patton said. I asked why it took Microsoft so long to add the paid storage options to OneDrive consumer. (Thanks to Neowin's Rich Woods for that last bit of clarification.) For those who have multiple users with 1TB each under their Office 365 Home plan, only the primary account holder is eligible for the extra storage purchase. These new additional storage options will be made available worldwide 'in the coming months,' Patton said.

The new total maximum of storage that Microsoft is making available is 2TB there are currently no plans to offer more, said Seth Patton, General Manager of Microsoft 365. These users are going to be able to buy more storage in 200 GB increments for $1.99 per month, up to 1TB of additional storage for $9.99 per month. As part of their current Office 365 Home or Personal subscriptions, users already get 1TB of OneDrive storage per user for no additional cost. Microsoft also finally is enabling Office 365 consumer subscribers to buy more OneDrive storage. The extra storage will be added 'soon' to those users accounts without them needing to take any action, officials said. Now these users will get 100 GB of cloud storage for the same $1.99 a month fee. Microsoft is increasing the storage baseline for OneDrive Personal users who currently pay $1.99 a month for 50 GB of storage. OneDrive: Which one is better for your business? On June 25, Microsoft announced new paid OneDrive Personal plans for OneDrive consumer customers and Office 365 consumer subscribers and its OneDrive Personal Vault feature. Microsoft is bringing new storage plan and security options to the consumer version of its OneDrive cloud storage service. Microsoft just supercharged ChatGPT with Bing's AI-powered search

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