Cloud Storage
The latest Cloud Storage coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Google’s 45-Day Notice: Android Backups Will Start Eating Into Your Storage – A Windows User’s Guide
Google has begun emailing Android users that their device backups will soon count against the same storage pool used by Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos. The change, which takes effect after a...
Microsoft 365 Archive Now Lets You Freeze Individual SharePoint Files to Cut Costs—With Some Strings Attached
Microsoft has quietly rolled out file-level archiving in SharePoint to all worldwide standard multi-tenant tenants. Marked as launched on July 15, 2026, the feature under Roadmap ID 477371 lets...
SharePoint Sites in Government Clouds Can Go Into Cold Storage Starting June 2026
Microsoft will begin offering its SharePoint archiving feature to tenants inside the Government Community Cloud environment beginning in June 2026, giving administrators a long-awaited tool for...
Exaba Lands $12M Seed Round to Bring High-Margin Local Storage to US MSPs in 2026
Exaba, a data storage software company founded in Waikato, New Zealand, has secured NZ$12 million (approximately US$7.5 million) in seed funding to fuel its expansion into the United States,...
Stop Hitting the Google Photos 15GB Limit: Switch to Storage Saver and Save Space
Google Photos users worldwide are seeing the dreaded “Storage full” notification with alarming frequency. The culprit? Google’s decision to cap free high-quality storage at 15GB, a threshold...
OneDrive to Tame Root Clutter with Auto-Route Shortcuts Folder by July 2026
Microsoft is tackling one of the longest-standing annoyances in OneDrive—the relentless clutter of shared-folder shortcuts littering the root of your file storage. According to the company’s...
Google AI Pro Storage Boost: 5TB for $19.99 Changes Cloud Value Equation
Google has fundamentally altered the cloud storage landscape by upgrading its AI Pro subscription from 2TB to 5TB while maintaining the $19.99 monthly price. This unexpected move creates immediate...
Backup alone is dead: Microsoft’s 2025 framework fuses privacy, identity, AI governance into one resilience strategy
Storage and data protection vendors spent the final days of March and the opening hours of April making a familiar but increasingly urgent argument: resilience now means much more than backup alone....
How Dropbox's Finder Integration Revolutionized Cloud Storage and Paved the Way for Apple File Provider
In the late 2000s, Dropbox executed a seemingly simple technical maneuver that fundamentally transformed how users interact with cloud storage: it made remote files appear as normal folders in the...
Clipchamp's OneDrive Integration Sparks User Backlash Over Storage Limits and Forced Cloud Dependence
Microsoft's decision to integrate Clipchamp projects directly with OneDrive has transformed the Windows 11 video editor from a convenient built-in tool into a source of widespread user frustration....
Clipchamp's OneDrive Integration: How Microsoft's Video Editor Shift Impacts Windows 11 Users
Microsoft has fundamentally rearchitected Clipchamp, transforming what was once a standalone video editor into a cloud-first application deeply integrated with OneDrive. This strategic pivot,...
Emergency KB5078132 Update Fixes Windows 11 23H2 Cloud File & PST Issues
Microsoft has released an emergency out-of-band update for Windows 11 version 23H2 to address critical file access and Outlook reliability problems that emerged after recent patches. KB5078132,...