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OneDrive – Massive Storage Increase to 15 GB FREE!

Microsoft has done it again, raising the free storage limit for all customers on OneDrive to 15 GB!! That’s up from 7 GB that was rolled out earlier this year. This announcement is for personal OneDrive and not OneDrive for Business – which has been at 1 TB of storage since April.
Comparing to the other vendors in this space, and Microsoft is now tied with Google for the lowest cost at the 100 GB level.

ConsortiumNumber of MembersPremier Financial Services MembersLeader(s)Start DateFocus/Goal
R3CEV84DTCC, American Express, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, TD Bank, BBVA, Bank of New York Mellon, Northern Trust, HSBC, BarclaysR3, CEV2014General-purpose platform and technology to design and deliver advanced distributed ledger technologies to the financial services market.
Digital Asset Holdings15Deutsche Borse, J.P. Morgan, DTCC, ABN AMRO, Goldman Sachs, Santander, Citi, IBMDAH2014Capital markets – post-trade settlement. Building distributed, encrypted straight through processing tools to improve efficiency, security, compliance, and settlement speed.
Hyperledger Project 142J.P. Morgan, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, UBS, BBVA, Bank of New York MellonLinux Foundation, IBM, Cisco, Intel, SWIFT, DAH2015General purpose blockchain. Open source collaborative effort based on IBM’s Fabric codebase, which was created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration that includes leaders in finance, banking, the internet of things (IoT), supply chain, manufacturing, and technology. The Linux Foundation hosts Hyperledger as a Collaborative Project under the foundation.
Ethereum116J.P. Morgan, Santander, BNY Mellon, BBVA, Bank of New York MellonMicrosoft, Intel 2017Considering a more distributed approach to self-management rather than the more traditional leadership structure adopted by competing blockchain consortia like R3CEV and Hyperledger. Offers smart contract features that contain a virtual machine, executing peer-to-peer contracts using a cryptocurrency known as Ether.
Ripple75UBS, Standard Chartered, Santander, CIBC, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), MUFG, MizuhoGoogle, IDG Capital Partners 2012Payments. A real-time gross settlement system (RTGS), currency exchange and remittance network by the company of the same name. The Ripple Transaction Protocol (RTXP) or Ripple protocol is built upon a distributed open-source Internet protocol, consensus ledger and native currency called XRP (ripples).
Kinakuta35Ethereum FoundationMicrosoft,
ConsenSys
2016Working group dedicated to improving smart contracts security.

Microsoft is also slashing it’s prices on Office 365:

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