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Re:Don't forget Microsoft by mbesto on Sunday January 30, 2022 @11:48PM (#30144590)
> but I cannot switch from Google's gmail, docs and drive to anything.

Until you:

- Use Google Drive and its subpar desktop experience of sync'n files (OneDrive is far worse, but Dropbox+MS Office beats it out)

- Experience Gmail's hostile user stance against non-Google calendaring. (1) Automatically creating Google Meets for every invite (or did they fix this recently?) and (2) the terrible formatting that gets sent to non Google-based accounts that gives me the "fingers on the chalkboard" feeling every time it gets sent to my O365 based email.

> I hate MS login page and endless redirects between their services

100% agree.

> Also I have feeling that MS account is more "formal", idk how to explain it.

Agreed. And I feel like anyone who sends me email/cal invites from GSuite are essentially amateurish. Can't explain it either.

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Re:Don't forget Microsoft by anothernewdude on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:38AM (#30146209)
Desktop experience? This isn't the 2000s grandpa.
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Re:Don't forget Microsoft by smt88 on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:54AM (#30146326)
There is no web substitute for Excel yet, especially when you get into bigger files.
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Re:Don't forget Microsoft by anothernewdude on Monday January 31, 2022 @08:03PM (#30157275)
Because at web scale you don't use individual files.
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