Microsoft Gifts Dropbox Users 100GB of OneDrive Storage for One Year

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Like an overzealous patron at a gentlemen's club who just inherited a fortune, Microsoft can't help but to make it rain. Free storage, that is. It was only a week ago that Microsoft offered up 100GB of free OneDrive cloud storage for a year for signing up for Bing Rewards, and now Microsoft is taking aim at Dropbox users with a similar deal -- 100GB of free OneDrive cloud storage for a year simply for verifying their account.
Unlike previous offers, however, this latest giveaway isn't limited to Dropbox users living in the U.S. -- this one's good for all Dropbox users regardless of where they call home. To qualify, Dropbox users will have to register with OneDrive and save a "Get Started" PDF file to their Dropbox account. Once that's done, the 100GB of free OneDrive space will appear.
These offers aren't of any real benefit to paid Office 365 subscribers who receive unlimited storage as part of their subscription. At the same time, it doesn't hurt to take advantage of thse offers anyway, which can serve as insurance in the event that they stop subscribing.
I applied both the Bing Rewards and Dropbox offers to my account and it currently shows 10.2TB. Even though I have unlimited storage through my Office 365 subscription, the storage space is doled out in 10TB increments on an as-needed basis.
With this latest promotion, it would seem that Microsoft is trying to poach Dropbox users over to OneDrive, though that isn't necessarily the case. The two companies recently teamed up to improve integration between Office and Dropbox.
If you're a Dropbox user want to claim your 100GB of OneDrive storage, go here.
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