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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by troutwine on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:21PM (#28321745)
Huh, interesting. Since GSuite became a thing I've never seen Exchange in my professional life, so, generously, since 2007/8? I've only had one employer that used Exchange and they sold a setup for it, but even they were switching internally to use GSuite by the time I left, if I recall correctly. I recall the switch as being extremely abrupt in that era.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by bcrescimanno on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:32PM (#28321874)
While this isn't a hard and fast rule, GSuite adoption outside of the "tech sector" is extremely low. We have to recognize our own biases and that the experiences of the average HN reader doesn't reflect the larger business world.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by ubermonkey on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:47PM (#28322031)
Very much this.

My professional life has been interacting with very large organizations (as clients, not employers) -- think Fortune 500 firms, if not bigger. Major oil companies (I live in Texas), major defense contractors, etc.

These are not GSuite users, generally speaking. It's Office and Exchange in these places. Microsoft is VERY VERY STRONG at the Enterprise level.

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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by midasuni on Friday August 27, 2021 @05:33AM (#28325816)
I’ve used outlook/exchange for nearly 20 years at work, with over a decade of that on the web version, which has got progreso ly more featureful as we upgrade (slowly) to more recent versions. Most recently moved to cloud based exchange and it’s still fine - and none of the sync issues that I hear from people who use macs.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by tailspin2019 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:32PM (#28322385)
I'm in the UK, have also worked a lot with large enterprise customers in Europe and my experience matches yours.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by tekknik on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:09PM (#28323558)
The largest players in the tech sector are outlook shops. Except Google.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by jslove on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:21AM (#28324274)
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by peatmoss on Friday August 27, 2021 @11:10AM (#28328856)
Chromebooks and gmail have eaten the education sector, so if indeed you’re right that GSuite adoption outside the tech sector and education sectors, then this will be short lived.
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