Microsoft is shrinking the cloud storage included with Microsoft 365 Family, Premium, and Pro subscriptions, a move the company frames as adding flexibility but that could sharply raise costs for heavy users. Currently, each of up to six accounts on a Family plan gets 1 TB of OneDrive storage, for 6 TB total. Under the new model, the entire subscription shares a 2 TB pool, cutting total capacity by two-thirds.
Subscribers who exceed the new limit will have to buy additional storage at $10 per TB per month. According to the source, a family using even half of its current allowance could see its bill double or triple. Microsoft is also introducing shared AI usage credits, which the source notes is a benefit, but the storage reduction is the more consequential change.
The new terms take effect for new and upgraded subscriptions starting Oct. 8, 2026, while existing customers move to shared storage at their first renewal on or after May 2, 2027. The source suggests Microsoft is targeting users who exploit the old 6 TB allowance for personal data hoarding, and notes that competitors like Google One already offer shared storage pools with AI credits at comparable prices. Most subscribers likely use less than 2 TB, but the change will hit the heaviest users hardest. The source is a single ZDNET report; no other sources were provided.}```json 2nd attempt? Actually the response above is invalid because it has extra text after the JSON? Let's output only JSON. Also ensure no{