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glennPattonWork331-Jan-16 1:38

31-Jan-16 1:38

I would have Win 7 Pro if I could on this machine, it came with 8.0 so Win 10 is better (still gives the WTF | :WTF:

moment, I have not had since I swapped Amiga WorkBench for 95 back in the day...)

Cornelius Henning31-Jan-16 2:03

31-Jan-16 2:03

OneDrive gives you access to 15GB storage in the cloud for free. I find it quite useful. It is my first use of cloud storage, and I am starting to appreciate it! Smile | :)

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when their violent passions are spent?
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter31-Jan-16 2:26

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

31-Jan-16 2:26

Cornelius Henning wrote:
I am starting to appreciate it

We too. Your data is very valuable for us...
The Microsoft OneDrive Team...

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Cornelius Henning31-Jan-16 2:29

31-Jan-16 2:29

I am paranoid about my data, but not THAT paranoid. Anyway, I don't save sensitive data, such as passwords or financial stuff, in the cloud. That would be stupid. Poke tongue | ;-P

How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon

glennPattonWork331-Jan-16 3:32

31-Jan-16 3:32

Will look into it I use Drop Box at the moment for nonsensitive things...Just thought the log in now signs would panic my Mum...

Cornelius Henning31-Jan-16 3:55

31-Jan-16 3:55

I don't think other people can get to your stuff in the OneDrive cloud as easily as they can get to it in DropBox. From my limited understanding, I believe OneDrive is targeted to more secure personal storage than you have on DropBox, and possibly to synch data on your different personal devices.

I don't think it's going to be a direct replacement for DropBox. However, I am very new to OneDrive, and my understanding may not be 100% correct.

How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon

phil.o31-Jan-16 5:01

phil.o

31-Jan-16 5:01

Cornelius Henning wrote:
OneDrive gives you access to 15GB storage in the cloud for free.

Nothing's ever completely free. The cost is just hidden somewhere you would never have thought of before Smile | :)

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Cornelius Henning31-Jan-16 5:21

31-Jan-16 5:21

Actually, I believe you only get 5GB commercial free, but with 15GB you may see pop-up commercials at times, but so far I haven't seen any. Commercials may be coming down the pike soon!

If you don't want commercials, you can pay $1 or $2 per month for 50GB of storage. That won't break the bank, but at the moment I am enjoying 15GB free and commercial free. I don't really need more, but you know how it goes in the world of computers. Enough storage is never enough for very long!

How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon

Dan Neely1-Feb-16 3:32

Dan Neely

1-Feb-16 3:32

Until MS decides to shrink your quota again.

And its been shrunk to 5GB unless you jumped through hoops a month or two ago;[^] and even then that's down from as much as 30GB free if you'd played opt in games with them before. As grudging as they were in backtracking to 15GB, I suspect at some point in the future they'll decide to elephant you over again and force you to pay to keep it.

For breaking the cardinal rule of cloud storage - Thou Shall not Shrink User Quotas - MS has made certain that I'll never use their cloud offerings because murphy's law gaurantees that the next time they'll decide to elephant their customers will be when I'm too busy with other stuff to deal with it. A handful of whale's taking advantage of an unlimited tier to store stupidly many TB of data is something that every other provider who offers unlimited storage has had to deal with; MS has no excuse for being caught by surprise on this; and even less of an excuse for not adjusting the price if needed so that the people paying for the convenience of unlimited without using crazy amounts earn enough to cover the handful of users with insane amounts of data.

Freaking out when customers at the free tier were actually using as much storage as offered is even more pathetic.

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PIEBALDconsult31-Jan-16 6:41

PIEBALDconsult

31-Jan-16 6:41

... to rule them all? Suspicious | :suss:

glennPattonWork331-Jan-16 6:57

31-Jan-16 6:57

I was wondering why I had to battle Orcs to get to start button Laugh | :laugh:

El Tel is dead

Keith Barrow30-Jan-16 22:33

Keith Barrow

30-Jan-16 22:33

Probably only of much interest to UKians, Terry Wogan has pegged it.

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Richard MacCutchan30-Jan-16 22:36

Richard MacCutchan

30-Jan-16 22:36

Another sad passing.

glennPattonWork330-Jan-16 22:40

30-Jan-16 22:40

Ooh!

OriginalGriff30-Jan-16 22:48

OriginalGriff

30-Jan-16 22:48

His melliferous tones and gentle lilt will be sadly missed. Rose | [Rose]

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908236531-Jan-16 0:44

9082365

31-Jan-16 0:44

Not to undermine the sadness of the occasion but isn't El Tel, Terry Venables?

Anyway, life without Wogan popping up here and there, especially for Children In Need, is definitely going to be less entertaining. Could we have a ban on people dying for the rest of the year now, please?

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