Office 365 Personal with 1TB of OneDrive free for some users, here’s how

Microsoft offers the opportunity to sign a contract for free subscription to Office 365 Personal lasting 12 months to users that, before the decision to reduce a storage bonus on OneDrive, had taken advantage of more than 5 GB.

Microsoft was the word giving substance to promises made at the end of 2015 that, somehow, they mitigate the measure by which the company has decided to revise downwards its OneDrive data thresholds.

Recently, they have multiplied in the network several reports related to the ability to activate a free Office 365 free subscription, which includes 1 TB of storage space on OneDrive. This possibility is not offered unconditionally to all users, but only to a small circle. A measure introduced as compensation for those using long and actively the OneDrive service.

To determine if your Microsoft account gives or not entitled to activate your free subscription, it is appropriate to step back to November 2015. In announcing the changes to the OneDrive service, among which included the reduction of bonuses given 15GB to 5GB. Microsoft stated explicitly:

Customers using more than 5GB of free storage will still have access to all files for at least 12 months after the changes will come into force in early 2016. It will also be possible to redeem a free subscription for one year to Office 365 Personal (credit card required) which includes 1 TB of storage.

A chance to redeem your free subscription to Office 365 Personal is now offered and to exploit it is sufficient to connect to this address, log in with the details of their Microsoft account and check to meet the requirements.

The fundamental condition, as evidenced by previous Microsoft official intervention, it had previously exploited more than 5GB of data in OneDrive (that he actually occupied more than 5 GB, the mere potential, the early evidence, is not sufficient).

It should be noted that the second condition concerns the requirement to enter the data of your credit card (but it’s OK to a rechargeable card, as accepted). In addition, finished the 12 free months, your subscription will be renewed automatically.

Those who were not interested in the automatic renewal may intervene at any time to disable it by acting in their own Microsoft account settings (open this link, then> ” Manage Account> ” Disable Auto Renew ” ).