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How is OneDrive different in this sense?

Because MS Office is a different business than giving away free accounts to collect user data. It provides cloud services for money. I guess MS has much better redundancy mechanisms and pretty much committed to not lose your data.

Well, shit happens sometimes even with people having the best intentions to do the right thing. Though I didn't hear about a single case of MS losing people's data. But I'm sure MS would handle such situations differently than blaming it on a user and just terminating accounts.

One drive is no different, except the backing tech is definitely worse.from the article

> Others professed to have been barred from using Microsoft services,

You mentioned the word "value". Is there another tangible value to you in O365 vs G Suite besides the redundancy?

Value = proper Office suite online and offline with proper document formatting and files + more storage. Altogether cheaper than G Suite. Also it's really great value to have Office installed locally as a proper software. Not a crappy dumbed down browser web-site.

I pay for Gsuite which is $6/mo and extra 100gb of storage, for $8 total. The part that drives me nuts about 0365 is that they don't allow custom email domains below Business 0365 which is $12 a month.

Hmm I see it at $6.99/mo ..

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/microsoft-36...

Personal plan doesn't allow you to use custom domain for the email address EXCEPT for 1 domain that is registered with GoDaddy. And you can't share that domain with another account.

It is now Google Workspace (formerly G Suite).

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace/introducing...

Thank you! I pay for Gsuite but somehow I didn't notice this change.

Office 365 is overall better

plus, never seen anyone complaining about getting their officce account deleted into void

That's a pretty broad statement. I suppose that depends on your use case?

well yeah my case is that Excel and word are the best option. They integrate nicely with onedrive and you can plugin the documents into sharepoint and several other platforms within microsoft ecosystem

i might be biased due the fact am an azure power user and have several other tools that work together

At least in Germany some sites/blogs reported in the last few month that many users lost their Microsoft accounts without reason, so i wouldn't be too sure about this.

One user is even suing Microsoft because of this: (article is in german) https://www.drwindows.de/news/konto-gesperrt-nutzer-reicht-k...

It's similar, but chances are you won't lose both accounts at once.

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