While true, Google Docs' collaboration capabilities are fantastic enough that it's worth using, though. We use it all the time to work, anything from tiny scratchpads to big documents.

To do the same in Microsoft Office, you need to dick around with OneDrive and/or SharePoint. The last decade or so, I've only touched Office when someone sends me some .xls or .ppt file and I'm being lazy and just want to view it.

You can use an old school network drive to share documents in an enterprise, irrelevant of their nature. Easy and simple.

I am referring to Google's realtime collaboration features. Given a URL, you can enter the document and see it being modified in real time, as well as edit, annotate and comment in real time.

It's 2017, this is how we work now. My colleagues (literally) across the world are not going to connect to some shared NFS drive or whatever via VPN to store documents.

What if the shared drive is automatically mounted on your computer when you log on?

One drive for your personal documents only for you. One drive for your team only visible and editable by people in your team. One drive company wide with common stuff.

You can send a link to your colleagues and it just works! That doesn't support multiple editing though. That's how things were done historically.

Google doc is good to send a documents to a bunch of emails and see/edit the documents. It's terrible to write longer documents with advanced formatting, pictures and schemas.