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I think this is gonna change in time. Yes atm Microsoft is the leader of that industry and yes generally most of the larger companies and mid companies use Word/Excel/PP on a day to day basis.

Although I think the newer generations care a bit less about e.g Word etc and they are also more tech savy on doing hard things on google sheets etc, while the older generations might find it extremely hard to convert from Excel to google sheets etc.

Although another factor is laws etc and privacy policies. Google is much less flexible than office365 when it comes to who owns the data, although of course you have to pay for office365 while for google stuff usually you dont have to pay hence your companies docs might be owned by google and I don't see any sane human being wanting that.

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We are talking about S&P 1500 companies. None of them will be using the "free version" of Google docs that come with their free gmail account. The G Apps suite is pretty close in price to the full Office365 package. I simply cant see any major advantage to pay for G Apps over O365.

We are small dev shop - Google suite is cheaper, is good enough and has good integration with paid Gmail.

I pay $15/mo per user for full Office, Exchange, Microsoft Teams/Skype and very decent support.

GSuite is $10/user and offers similar products, but you have to pretty much support yourself.

The $20 extra a month I pay for my small team is negligible.

The company I work for pays even less per person than I do, with the enterprise licensing and the MS cash that gets thrown at us for integrating with them. Our first year of 365 is basically free, same with our switch from our data center to the cloud.

We are looking to save millions a month by making this move.

I pay 3.34 EUR/per user per month. I use Gmail in my company domain - which is IMHO superior to outlook because of tags, which are more expressive than outlook folders. I use apps (some of them not available on Office365 at all - like forms/surveys, websites), calendar synced with mobile, google drive and group conference in hangouts with screen sharing (not working in Office365 in skype on linux - no good app for that)

Since use mostly linux - desktop version of Office365 is useless for me.

To sum it up: one third Office price - no functionality lose for me and some functions not available in Office at all.

This...If I wanted my company to pay move to G Apps from O365, my data scientists and accountants would be in an uproar over why we're paying for a worse data analytics tool (G Sheets vs. Excel).

At this point, it's a marginal cost vs. benefit game: the cost differences between the two services are virtually 0 (and if not, getting closer each month), and the benefits show that we have more to _lose_ than gain from the switch.

GSuite is paid version. AFAIK, they removed the free version. If you have to pay for either of them, and the price difference isn't astronomical, I can see more people choosing office365 over gsuite.

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