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Comment by bradhe

2 years ago

Microsoft eating Google's lunch on documents is laughable at best. Not to mention it confuses the entire timeline of office productivity software??

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hot_gril  2 years ago

Is paid MS Teams is more or less common than paid GSuite? It's hard to find stats on this. GSuite is the better product IMO, but MS has a stronger b2b reputation, and anecdotally I hear more about people using Teams.

  • bombcar  2 years ago

    Nobody pays for Teams, but everyone pays for Office, and if you get Teams for free with it ...

    • olyjohn  2 years ago

      This is how it became so popular so fast. If they had charged for it, all those Teams users would still be using Zoom.

    • WWLink  2 years ago

      Not to mention it integrates with Azure365, which damn near certainly the IT department has already standardized on, feels comfortable with, and has been flooded with enough propaganda to believe anything else is massively less secure. Plus Teams has tons of knobs and buttons for managing what your users do with it... and companies love managing their employees lol.

      Sure, Teams is a steaming pile of crap to use day-to-day as a chat app, the search is slow and vague - and depending on policy, probably links you to messages that no longer exist in the archive lol. Oh you want to download message history? Nah gotta get an admin to do that bruh.

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  • abustamam  2 years ago

    Does anyone use paid GSuite for anything other than docs/drive/Gmail ? In all companies I've worked at, we've used GSuite exclusively for those, and used slack/discord for chat, and zoom/discord for video/meetings.

    I know that MS Teams is a more full-featured product suite, but even at companies that used it, we still used Zoom for meetings.

  • UrineSqueegee  2 years ago

    I worked at many companies in my times and all of them used teams except from one that used slack but all used MS products, none used googles.

  • darthrupert  2 years ago

    Gsuite is clearly a lot better product than Office365. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I see many institutions make the wrong choice here.

    I base about 50% of my choice of employer on what they choose in that area.

    • addicted  2 years ago

      GSuite is an awful product for an employer.

      If you have a problem there’s no one available to help you.

      On the MS side they will literally pull an engineer who is writing the code for the product you have a problem for to help resolve the issue if you’re large enough.

      The part you see in your browser isn’t the only part of the product a company has to buy. In fact, it’s not even the most expensive bit. If you see the most expensive plans for most SAAS products (ie the enterprise plans) almost the entire difference in costs is driven by support illustrating the importance and value of support.

      Google unfortunately is awful at this.