Microsoft Cuts Prices for OneDrive, Cranks Up Office Bonus to 1TB

The cloud wars have begun.

On the heels of Apple announcing cheap rates for iCloud storage and Amazon's unlimited free photo uploads for the Fire phone, Microsoft is cutting prices for its OneDrive cloud storage service. Drastically.

See also: How Apple's New iCloud Pricing Stacks Up to the Competition

Starting Monday, you can buy 100GB of OneDrive storage for just $1.99 a month (down from $7.49), and 200GB for $3.99 (down from $11.49). The free allotment is going up, too: Anyone with a Microsoft account gets 15GB (it used to be 7GB).

The biggest jump, however, is the amount of storage granted to Office 365 subscribers. If you subscribe to Office, you get a massive 1 terabyte of storage, and that's per person. An Office 365 Home account lets you share the subscription with five people, and each person gets 1TB, adding up to a maximum of 5TB. Previously, Office subscriptions granted just 20GB per person. Read more...

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