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Also important to notice: OneDrive does not count shared folder from other users against you. See: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/add-and-sync-shared...

So with shared folders, you can have 5T space in OneDrive.

Also Office 365 Home is $80/year on Amazon.

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Dropbox double dips and counts shared folders against you? That seems weird because they're already counting it against the person who uploaded it to begin with. So for a 1GB file they have removed a total of 2GB of quota between the sharer and the receiver.

Yes. And agreed.

I’m sure whoever came up with the idea got a nice raise.

I'm guess its to prevent people from getting a bunch of free accounts and sharing folders between them to create a unified view of larger effective quota.

Except they do the same thing with paid accounts.

I got 15 months of Office 365 with 1Tb OneDrive storage for ~$55 at Costco.

Just thought I'd mention because I normally wouldn't have thought to go to Costco for Software, but it's a great deal and they just give you a code that you redeem from Microsoft's website. It has worked great so far! Cheapest place I know for buying Office.

Yours is perhaps the unlikeliest comment in the entire thread.

Is there any other interesting software offering by Costco?

Before Windows 8 made anti-viruses obsolete, they used to offer AVG for around half the price it was online. I'm not sure any longer because I haven't found the need to install one since then.

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