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Comment by kbelder | Hacker News Reader

Only in a very small, insular bubble.

I don't know, I've worked with tiny startups and bigger companies like Red Hat, and huge banks, and GSuite is very widely used. The biggest corps don't seem to use it, but I definitely don't think it's only used in a small insular bubble

According to my Google Research Google Workspace has 19.2% marketshare and Office 365 65%.

I wouldn't call 20% "a small insular bubble".

As the the children using it in schools grow up the percentage will probably change in Googles favour. Cheap Chromebooks and G-suite for schools was the entry to try breaking Microsoft monopoly on an Office suite we will find out if they succeeded in the next decade.

> we will find out if they succeeded in the next decade.

I'm worried that Google ADHD strikes Workspace, to be honest the reason many still stick up with Microsoft is that they understand the proposition of enterprise software, but assuming Google didn't touch Workspace like it did for its messaging and payment solutions it could be a 50/50 split.

I don't know a single person in the company I work for that use MS Office or has done the last three or so years.

Supposedly you can get a license if you need it, but I don't know anyone who need it or even complain about it.

Everything goes in Confluence (or.md files in repos) or something similar these days, doesn't it?

Most other startups I know use GSuite.

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