Microsoft 365 slashes storage capacity for shared accounts amid industry-wide shortages

What happened

Some affected subscribers might also receive bonus storage when their account switches to the share limit model, although the company did not mention its eligibility requirements. This effectively increases the costs for large users, although it may benefit those who have family members that don't take up much cloud storage space.

Microsoft just made a major change to its storage policy affecting Microsoft 365 subscribers with shared accounts. According to the company , the Microsoft 365 Family, Premium, and Pro plans will move from an assigned 1TB of cloud storage for each user to a shared 2TB for all users. Microsoft is a software and software development company based in Redmond.

This means that a subscription shared across six users will have its total cloud storage capacity slashed by 66.6%. Aside from that, it also said that unused storage can benefit the entire family, and that any additional storage that the main subscriber purchases will benefit everyone.