Microsoft hardware users will benefit considerably from using OneDrive, while Apple customers will have the most seamless experience with using iCloud. Likewise, OneDrive is well integrated into Xbox, Windows Phone, and Windows 8. iCloud is heavily integrated into the Apple ecosystem, so it is simple to setup and use with iPads, iPhones, iPod touches, Macs, and Apple TVs. Pricing aside, each cloud service has its own benefits. Those iCloud prices combine the photo library feature, iCloud Drive, and all other existing iCloud services… iCloud goes to 20GB of storage for only $0.99 per month. For comparison, iCloud Drive will cost the same as OneDrive going forward for 200GB of storage per month, while iCloud’s free tier is 5GB versus Microsoft’s 15GB. This also comes at a time in which Apple is opening up iCloud to become a cloud-based photo library service. These changes are significant in light of Apple’s upcoming iCloud Drive storage service, which brings Apple into the existing world of OneDrive and Dropbox- storage services.
These price changes will be rolling out sometime in the next month for users. The change here is price decreases: 100GB used to cost $7.49 per month and 200GB previously was $11.49 each month. For those customers who do not want an Office 365 subscription at the aforementioned prices, users can now tack on additional storage to a OneDrive account in increments of 100GB or 200GB.Office 365 keeps Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents in sync between the iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, and web Office apps. This move from 20GB to 1TB is a significant boost, but it’s unlikely that most people even have ~1000GB worth of Office files to store. This 1TB tier costs the same $6.99 per month for an individual user or $9.99 for a 5 person family plan (which still provides 1TB per family member). That service is moving from 20GB of storage to 1TB of storage per user. A bigger shift is occurring on the Office 365 storage side.Microsoft says it is making the switch to 15GB now that people store more files in the cloud and now that images and videos taken on smartphones consume much more space. This storage is accessible via the OneDrive apps on iOS, Android, Windows, and on the web, and much like Dropbox and the upcoming iCloud Drive, it can store files of all kinds. Currently, OneDrive’s free tier includes 7GB of storage.Here are the three main announcements in more detail: The company is announcing today that OneDrive storage at the free tier will be more than doubled, Office 365 storage will see a major increase, and that there will be storage price drops across the board. Microsoft is making notable improvements to its storage offerings for its OneDrive cloud-based service.
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