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When “Included Storage” Stops Meaning a Fixed Amount

October 10, 2026

If you’ve ever shared a Microsoft 365 Family subscription with relatives, you probably assumed the math was simple: six people, one subscription, and each person gets a terabyte of OneDrive storage to call their own. That assumption is about to stop being true. Microsoft is replacing those individual 1 TB allowances with a single shared pool of 2 TB for the whole household — and the difference between those two numbers is the real story here.

The Workflow That Worked Perfectly — and Still Broke Security

A security analyst at a large enterprise recently discovered something odd: sensitive HR documents sitting inside a Microsoft Teams channel that hundreds of employees could open. No hacker had broken in. No password had been stolen. The cause was a document-approval automation, built with the help of an AI assistant, that quietly moved files from SharePoint into Teams — and did its job exactly as asked.