We use Microsoft at our startup because it’s so cheap - 12$ for storage, chat, Video Call, Office, email.

Except the software is often pretty annoying. And even in 2025, MS will still randomly eat random files and the auto recovery still doesn’t work reliably.

Google Suite is $14 at the Standard level: 2 TB per user, email, custom domain, video calls, docs / sheets, etc. Approximately 15% more expensive, but, really, it's two dollars more expensive, and I'd say the quality is better.

The problem with Google is that it is impossible to ever talk to anyone when you need support.

No support, poor integration with local file systems, their office is pretty basic. Plus it's Google, I personally trust it less than Microsoft. I still need Teams for calls with external partners, and I need proper Excel.

yeah its kind of annoying.

its not the amazing stack when i worked at $startup, but also we dont really spend any time futzing with it.

Microsoft releases a new feature, we get it. cool.

I was adding a calendar event on Teams (or was it "JS"-Outlook). I wanted to copy from another area in the app, but since it was a modal dialog, I couldn't. There's a button to pop up the "add event" dialog to be its own window. I clicked it, the add event window is now detached. But if course all the stuff I previously entered disappeared, what did I expect, that someone would bother to add code to prevent them from disappearing!?!