OneDrive - How to Keep your free 15 GB of Storage

In November, Microsoft made significant changes to its OneDrive storage plans that ended up limiting the amount of storage available to most users.

Storage that you got for free as part of the service will be reduced from 15GB to 5GB. Users obviously are not very happy with this decision, especially if they use OneDrive for photo uploads.

Luckily, Microsoft had a slight change of heart, and as a concession for those users, the OneDrive Team is offering the opportunity to opt-in until January 31st, 2016 to keep it.

Keep Your Free 15 GB of OneDrive Storage

Go to https://preview.onedrive.com/bonus/ then click on Keep your free storage.

You will now have your base 15 GBs of storage in addition to 15 GBs for your camera roll.

This is great news for free users of OneDrive and makes the idea of saving all of your photos videos to OneDrive relevant again. 

However, Microsoft are not bringing back unlimited storage, but if you have an Office 365 subscription, you get a 1TB as part of the package. If you get the Office 365 family plan you get five accounts, and each of those accounts gets 1 TB of OneDrive storage. For the average user, this should be more than enough storage space.

It’s worth repeating: You have to sign up to keep your Free 15GB of OneDrive Storage before January 31st, 2016. Make sure you get it right away, it  takes two seconds to secure it.

Windows 10 - December Update

The excitement may have died down somewhat, but the free Windows 10 upgrade is something Microsoft are still offering. Windows 7 or Windows 8 can get your hands on Microsoft’s latest software absolutely free of charge. The free Windows 10 upgrade is a smart move for both users and Microsoft. 

We are getting on average every 1 in 6 customers who've upgraded to Windows 10 coming in with big problems. Most of the time we can safely return your PC to its original Windows 7 or 8 state, but worst case scenario we need to re-build your computer.

Why might I have problems upgrading?

Your computer may be compatible, but there may be drivers missing and drivers are what keeps your hardware and software communicating between each other.  Some software may be incompatible with Windows 10, meaning that when you upgrade, your favourite game or accounting package fail to work anymore, again causing big problems

Should I upgrade yet?

We advise to hold out a couple more months and wait for another major Windows 10 update, which will hopefully iron out some bugs and make your move to Windows 10 as smooth as possible.

We are more than happy to advise on whether to upgrade or not, so call us or pop into our workshop for some advice.   

Windows 10 – Update

The excitement may have died down somewhat, but the free Windows 10 upgrade is still something Microsoft is offering for another few months. Windows 7 or Windows 8 can get their hands on Microsoft’s latest software absolutely free of charge. The free Windows 10 upgrade is still a smart move for both users and Microsoft. Users get the latest in security and features without having to pay the £70+ to upgrade that they used to.

We are getting about every 1 in 6 customers who have done the upgrade coming in with big problems. Most of the time we can safely return your PC to its original Windows 7 or 8 state, but worst case scenario we need to re-build your computer.

Why might I have problems upgrading?

Your computer may be compatible, but there may be drivers missing and drivers are what keeps your hardware and software communicating between each other.  Some software may be incompatible with Windows 10, meaning that when you upgrade, your favourite game or accounting package fail to work anymore, again causing big problems

So Should I upgrade yet?

We advise to hold out a few more months and wait for the Windows 10 first major update, which will hopefully iron out some major bugs and make your move to Windows 10 as smooth as possible.

We are more than happy to advise on whether to upgrade or not, so call us or pop into our workshop for some advice.