Microsoft 365 Family subscribers just got offered a "sharing" upgrade — Copilot AI benefits you can now split across the whole household. Generous, right? Right up until you notice what it costs: OneDrive storage is dropping from 6TB to 2TB. Two-thirds of your family's cloud, gone.
The OneDrive home screen — where your photos live, until the ceiling drops from six terabytes to two.
That's not a rounding error. That's four terabytes of photo archives, game captures, and "definitely important" PDFs that suddenly don't fit. Every outlet that picked this up landed on the same word: shrink. In exchange, the entire family shares a pool of AI credits — which, let's be honest, your dad will use twice.
Microsoft's answer to "why is my cloud smaller?" — more AI, less room.
The playbook is familiar by now: take something away, rebrand the leftovers as a feature, hope nobody reads the fine print. If your family's anywhere near 2TB, start downloading tonight — it's cheaper than the alternative.
The Microsoft 365 setup — same subscription, smaller cloud.
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Source: The Verge — also covered by TechPowerUp, ZDNET, and Windows Central.
