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Office365 is way better. You get native apps, which are obviously better than a web app, you get device integrations for enterprise, you get more advanced tooling, more features. Plus MS has better compliance options. If you're actually running a business, and not just a startup employee who doesn't need to do much, MS is the way.

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Not sure why you got downvoted to dead. In big companies, M365 is a way more common and complete solution compared to anything else out there. This is just a fact - I actually really like e.g. Google Sheets, but the reality is that M365 can integrate with your Microsoft stack top-to-bottom and has low-code app, automation and database services that allow you to build out a good chunk of common LOB apps with minimal complexity (not that Dataverse doesn't have some ridiculous issues).

In my corner of EU, Office365 is the only thing I see everywhere(also in some government offices). I have yet to see/use GSuite anywhere yet. Also, M$-Azure is common on more ancient businesses, modern startups sometimes have AWS and hip startup in rare cases has GCP(when product does not involve personal data).

Exactly. Whoever is down voting here is denying reality.

Your reality, perhaps

In the last 4 compagnies I worked for (the multi-billions kind of compagnies), everybody uses workspace, there are no office 365

Weird - were they IT companies maybe?

Not at all: television, retail, mecanics, and another retail

Surprising - as with the earlier commenter in EU, here in South Africa, including the multinationals spanning the continent, everything is Teams, including the government.

Sorry I’m the one who thought Google Workplace was the best, I’m learning something.

- Does Chrome keep nagging you for login and bookmark sync, when you use O365?

- Google’s way of handling shared inboxes is awful (Want an extra email? Create a …Google Group! Then assign members, tune the perms, etc.) How does it work in O365? Can I just create an email and assign 7 users on it?

I think it's a weird quirk of HN - we're encouraged to downvote, but I believe you can kill a comment if it gets just a few downvotes initially, which I think is overkill?

Anyway: big corps disable Chrome sync; most people will use Edge in enterprise because it integrates seamlessly into M365 and supports multiple work profiles (e.g. privileged accounts, service accounts, etc.)

Shared mailboxes are built into Active Directory; most enterprises have automated ways to create those -- usually the big concern is managing removing members when they're not supposed to be members anymore, hence the centralized management. There are also M365 groups you can create yourself, but that's just a distribution list. And generally, Teams is the way to go for any kind of collaboration work now - shared mailboxes seem to be a bit of a relic, usually meant for external interfaces that require an email address.

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