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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by skj on Monday March 26, 2018 @08:10PM (#16683960)
FYI Google used gsuite internally for its 20k-or-whatever engineers and, in my opinion, it works fantastically.

(I'm a Google engineer)

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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by tomnipotent on Monday March 26, 2018 @09:15PM (#16684300)
I'll bet money that accounting & finance teams at Google use Excel.
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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by bronson on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @12:03PM (#16689798)
Yes... yes, they do.

Most of them use iPhones too.

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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by rootsudo on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:26PM (#16684648)
How do we find this out?
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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by intended on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:20AM (#16685780)
Empirically we buy a company, tell the accounting team that we are changing to gsuite and see if the CTO gets fired, or the accounting team quits, or the company gets a hit.

IF neither, Gsuite is ok.

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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by kevingadd on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:39PM (#16684716)
I'd leave a moderately-sized (like 5 pages) work gdoc page open on my work machine at Google and come back the next day and it was using 1gb of RAM. Fantastic is certainly one word for it.
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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by spydum on Monday March 26, 2018 @08:18PM (#16684002)
Collab tools are fabulous no doubt, but sheets feels entirely neglected and basic. Permissions model is clunky and gsuite governance is nonexistent - you have to buy a CASB license to do anything effectively.

It's not a bad suite, I just think it's confused on some areas (don't even get me started on the chat/conference systems tho)

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