Microsoft 365 Family Cuts Shared OneDrive Storage From 6TB To 2TB
For households that spread large files across all six accounts, the same subscription price now buys a third of the ceiling it did under per-person allocation.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Microsoft has changed the storage for Microsoft 365 Family and Premium from an individual allocation of 1TB per person to a shared pool used by up to six people. New subscriptions started on or after October 8, and subscriptions repurchased after expiration, get the 2TB shared storage from the start, down from the previous maximum of 6TB.
The change applies at signup for new subscriptions started on or after October 8, and again for anyone who repurchases after letting a subscription expire. Existing subscribers keep the per-person arrangement until their next renewal cycle resets it.
The arithmetic is the point. Six people at 1TB each added up to a 6TB ceiling. A shared 2TB pool is a third of that, and it is shared rather than rationed, so one heavy account can consume the pool that used to belong to the whole family.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- ASCII.jp Microsoft 365 Family、最大6TBから共有2TBへ