A family using laptops while managing a Microsoft 365 shared storage pool in OneDrive
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When “Included Storage” Stops Meaning a Fixed Amount

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.