OneDrive increases free storage to 15GB for everyone and 1TB for Office 365 Subscribers

Microsoft has announced some major increase in storage space of OneDrive to its users! The OneDrive free storage which is is 7GB till now, will be boosted upto 15 GB.

Not only that, Office 365 subscribers are going to enjoy an additional storage as well. Users of Office 365 Home, Personal and University will all be getting 1 TB of Storage space with an extra pay. By paying $9.99 per month for Office 365 Home, $6.99 per month for Office 365 Personal and $79.99 for four years on Office 365 University, all users will be getting 1 TB of storage space.

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Windows phone backup and restore

Whenever windows phone is upgraded to 8.1 or if the phone has been reset due to some reasons, or if a new Windows phone is bought, user can restore his old Settings, apps, text messages, email, passwords, photos, videos and other data into the  upgraded or the new Windows phone. But for doing so, first creating a backup is mandatory.

To know how to create a backup of the data in the Windows phone 8 or Windows phone 8.1, read this post:  Backup Windows phone

In this post, the way to restore the data that was taken backup into the Windows phone 8 or Windows phone 8.1 will be explained. If the back up of data is done into the cloud (as explained in the previous article) that is, into OneDrive of the Microsoft account that was added to the Windows phone primarily, then the restoration of data back into the phone from OneDrive will require an internet connection to the phone. If the data to be restored is large, then it can consume time. So it is wise to connect the phone to the internet using Wi-Fi rather using mobile internet data plan.

To restore data into Windows Phone :

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Backup Windows phone

Windows phone has an inbuilt option to backup the data from it in a very simple manner. When the Windows phone is in sync with the Microsoft account provided by the user, there is an option to enable the automatic backup option. This backup data will be stored to the Microsoft account linked to the phone and also to OneDrive of the Microsoft account. Get to know more about OneDrive.

By enabling backup option in the Windows phone, the backup copy of the following data from the phone will be created:

• Apps that are installed on the Windows phone, including the progress and scores of any game apps.
• Saved passwords of the accounts that are used through Windows phone
• Call history
• Text messages
• Photos and videos
• The accounts that have been setup (added to ) on the phone.
• Any words that have been added to the dictionary.
• Start screen, its layout and its theme, lock screen.
• Other settings from the phone.

Manually, backup of the data in the Windows phone can be done at any time by going to“Settings” -> “Backup” -> “Apps+Settings”.

Slide the “Settings Backup” bar to the right and turn it ON. Then tap on “Backup Now”.

To backup apps+Settings from Windows phone automatically:

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