Yet I'll have to wait several more years for a fix for the bug in Office web mail client that incorrectly says there is new mail on the browser tab, when in fact there is no new mail.
Employee tracking features or not, MS 365 is orders of magnitude worse than g-suite in every regard.
Employees don't want these products, so they have to go after managers who can crow to their managers about monitoring productivity.
My boss is considering to moving to MS365 because GSuite showing its ugly head often and that have a impact on our productivity.
The worst example: you can't use the browser's back button in the MS 365 mail client! Instead of using the back button like any other web app, you have to hit ESC to drop from message detail back to the inbox or folder. The back button instead goes to the next message in the queue.
MS 365 is full of mind-boggling UX decisions on top of annoying bugs that have been around for years.
I use it a quite a lot and think it is okay, but it has all sorts of problems and behaviors that don't make a lot of sense.
Yea, it does have their quirks. I am aware of those and I know how to work around it or with it. Microsoft Word been around more than 20 years and it have legacy codes in Word to ensure it works with older format and few other oddities.
That must be a feature: one could use the back button to open many mails and even reply to them in order to game the employee 'evaluation' metrics.
Wow, talk about a low bar!
Less snarkily: G suite works for low complexity tasks (let's not get int G drive which seems designed to add gratuitous complexity). Channeling Clayton Christiansen, it's a "minimill" that does a tiny part of the job, not well but adequately.
And it could be argued that most people don't need the capabilities of MS Office. Certainly no one person needs most of the features. There are definitely small problems for which less is more.
Much as I hate using MS365 (back-compatible nightmare of poor UX decisions, too many features for my particular use case) my heart, and productivity, sinks when I have to use the gsuite tools.
It's interesting that nobody has managed to really upend this market, not for lack of trying. There must be huge institutional inertia.
It's so bad, that I'm thinking my next company has to use Microsoft stuff again - sort of an interview criteria. I'm only semi joking because Outlook and Co seems like a low bar to beat.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/6/21503649/google-workspace...
You clearly have never sent/received a calendar invite from a g-suite email to a non-g-suite email. The experience is abysmal.