I cannot stand that companies still use Office365 and other microsoft products to run their business.

I constantly meet with clients and frequently they're always using office for their email. I've seen or experienced rather many of these clients having major problems with their emails, sending things by share point and having issues and so much more.

Plus when you get to the point of dealing with the IT teams, there is typically a lot of people on IT that move very slowly to resolve what seem to be simple issues.

Our company has been using Google for over 8 years now and has been an absolute dream. Sharing documents and spreads easily and easy access to login to my accounts. I feel like with microsoft, i'm always 2FA'ing into everything and it honestly just makes my life harder just to communicate and exchange information with my clients.

Honestly. I haven't seen any mail/calendar clients that's better than outlook (on desktop.And granted I haven't used outlook in about a year, new work uses mac)

@iceb and I haven’t seen better slternative to word, excel etc. OpenOffice or Libre versions suck simply.

LibreOffice needs to evolve and up their game, or Mozilla needs to create some FOSS Office 365 rival. Companies would actually pay for that and Mozilla would finally have a reliable source of income

Do you have to support the users that would refuse to learn or be incapable of relearning a new software suite?

As the person that would have to do that where I work, I'll take well-known over better any day of the week.

Most dramatically underestimate the effort that is necessary for an Office clone.

I seldom use Google Sheets, but last time it had like 20 % of the features that Excel had...

LibreOffice lacks development resources. That's it. I think they've come a long way, especially with Code / Collabora Online ... Plus that some countries finally started to pay for implementing necessary add-ons like cryptography.

IMHO, MS will go to the cloud / browser only soon. I think there was something in the news recently, not sure though.

IMHO it's the wrong direction... The "let's share everything everywhere without knowing where it will be stored" approach is brain damaged.

That's my main reason why I dislike both Office 365 and Google sheets.

The Office upgrade debacles are legendary.

In the last company we had e.g. an VM with Office 2k running in case we still needed to open some old templates or docs for mass mailing etc... Yeah 2k. You read that right.

Cause opening old stuff in the new office version can break things ... Badly.

Google sheets... Well it's Google. It's the cloud. Nuff said.

@IntrusionCM given the fact that Google reads your google drive (probably MS with onedrive too) it seems a liability for trade secrets.

@Demolishun another concern is the loss of data... Many use the Cloud as a one way street: zero backups, zero plan for what happens if it goes offline.

At least Backups should exist...