Microsoft 365 vs Google Workspace - The Ultimate Comparison

I will prefer google workspace

This guy didn’t answer any questions and missed all the real reasons to pick one as a business.

How are you a pro when you say you have to have Outlook desktop? OWA…. The first web based email UI. It in M 365 as Outlook Online. I can guess guess who he suggests.

Thanks! Very helpful.

Great video thanks

Great explanation, thank you. What would you recommend for someone who needs to have full delegate permissions for remote calendar management who use MacBook and iPad? We have contact files from previous job in Outlook. :|

eather he just hates google or doesnt know what chrome os

Which one is "less" abusive with our data?

Really helpful and clear presentation uet so fer like over two years. Odd that.

As retired I am no longer a business user. Have used MS products since the days of Win 3.0 so naturally went that route with home computing.
HOWEVER as a home user I tried Chrome OS on a cheap Ebay Asus Chromebox and LOVED IT.
Over the past year I have migrated a lot of my casual home computing to Chrome on Chromeboxes and love the cloud storage and web apps.
HOWEVER again. The Windows 10 machine still rules for ripping, scanning, art/painting creation, there is no Chrome software for those creative activitities and I don't anticipate there ever will be.
I used to use OneDrive but moved over to GoogleDrive as it was better value for me.
I have always found the Microsoft software products to be very large and heavy, only ever using only a tiny fraction of their features. By comparison the Google Chrome offerings are not only free but small, light, easy to use and fast, and I like that.
Google Spaces is especially interesting and I am looking hard at that as could be very useful to me. I don't think MS offer the facility to produce simple websites in Drive.

Bruhhhh so well explained !! Thanks a lot chef

Man, you are brilliant! I loved every minute of your video. Thanks!

The simplest yet most instructive explanation I have come across. Thank you.
One question though I haven't been able to answer. Does 365 hosts domains? I need to transfer mine and I cant seem to find one in 365.

But what if you have a Mac? My husband and I have three businesses - two of which we’re partners, one of which I own - and we’ve been using Go Daddy’s limited Outlook email. That’s up for renewal and I’m doing an audit of our tools. So many of the separate subscriptions we’re paying for would be covered by a true workspace suite - docs, files, spreadsheets, calendar booking, phone…and I’m really not sure what to do.

Amazing explanation, dear!

you know what i really dislike about the entire ''pc experience'' nowadays? how... confusing and bizarr it is in a strange way.

WIth only a pc: yeah you can pick and choose BUT heres the thing: people also use phones, that are run by the other company. want to jump on the microsoft ecosystem? guess what... you still also need google anyways because there are no windows phones anymore (sadly). you like google more and want to stay with google wich would also be more practical because you also have a phone? no you cant do that either because depending on where you live, no matter if you like it or not or if its the best product or not: microsoft office is the defacto standard for companies that almost everyone uses and then using something else and constantly jump back and forth between them gets super annoying.
i really dislike the new versions of word and alike and i would so much prefer using something with libre office but i cant really efficiently because work expects you to use office and if something goes wrong because you make a mistake on a different office program or because a non ms office program is messing up the layout or whatever its YOUR fault it falls back onto so you kind of have to use office, but you also have to use google because you own a phone and all of it feels so...

unnessecary because you have a so many duplicate apps doing the same thing.

i really hat modern pc era where every company thinks or needs to offer a complete everything-suite where you dont need 90% of the stuff.
it was so much simpler when you just bought single use programs for one usage and thats it. you can build your own suite with that with the apps you like the most for each usecase.

This was a really great video. Thanks for the help :-)

Thank you

Don't feel old. I was in IT for a long time and using a spreadsheet and word processing a long time. How long? Since VisiCalc and Word Star. I must admit I always chose Microsoft applications. Through those many years I always chose Microsoft applications. Although I always hated their OS! Nice job on the video.

Microsoft products keep IT companies in business. Outlook is constantly giving end users problems. Every company that I’ve migrated from Outlook email to Google workspace have had a much better experience. They don’t call NEARLY as much for assistance. Because Google’s paid email service just works. One thing that I agree on is that having Word and Excel is still recommended. Not necessary but recommended.

this is bullshit sorry for the language but I can't get satisfaction by being polite, I just want to cancel this bs microsoft 365

Hello Jonathan. I am a full online Google user. I understand and agree with all your statements but when you talk about applications that have (or not) "advanced features". I've worked in transitioning people from M$ to G, and the "advanced features" that were lacking (long ago, most have been updated) were bells and whistles like cell decoration or text orientation, only visual stuff. As for real advanced features, like automation or data flow, Google is far more powerful, with a no-code, a low-code and a full dev entry point. Sure, with AppScript, one needs to use one of the most popular and easy dev languages not everybody knows, but it is so powerful to access and manage all your data from simple APIs in a managed secure environment. With it you can create your own sheet formulas, automate process steps, act on events and build your interface. Greetings!

Great information

Any recommendation on how to collaborate between business locations when one location uses google suite and the other Microsoft 365?

"god knows why, but they did." sent me

you are right... both are good...

Thank you for providing an incredibly comprehensive tutorial.

E up , Sorry didn’t help me out 😢

I’d love to use Google Workspace but the one thing that gets me is that you can’t copy folders with files in them. I like to have template folders with a file tree inside, copy and paste the file with tree and then populate all the template docs inside, but I can’t find a way to do it in Google Workspace on Mac.

Love your video and your beard.

What are the differences when it comes to backup?

Microsoft 365 has bad customer support when they lock your email business accounts for no reason. Considering moving to Google or going back to our server for hosting our emails.

You forgot about us Mac users in your recommendations

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Libreoffice is good too

I forget we millennials are in our 40s now. Where did our time go?

I use the Google stuff because I don't have to pay for it.

Microsoft 365 family let’s you share with 5 other users and everyone gets a terabyte of storage and all the office programs. That’s for $79 annually (not per user). So in my business we just did two of those “family groups” and it’s cost effective

What about matching the choice if you are using a Macbook?

Google is the clear winner in comparison to Microsoft for personal use anyway. I mostly only use email and calendars and find Gmail to be a superior option to Outlook, with Google Calendar cleaner and easier to use and integrate across devices than Outlook Calendar. Additionally, Microsoft Teams is outperformed by other available options, and OneNote is blown away by apps like notion or obsidian. I use Google Keep offers the added convenience of being able to take voice notes through integration with Google Assistant. In terms of productivity tools, only 5% of the features on Microsoft Word are actually utilized by 90% of people. Word is great, but not great enough on its own to go all in on microsoft. Excel is fantastic, it needs advanced functionality. But I simply can't find a use case for it. I just find more use cases for google products than I do microsoft

Solid video Jonathan

Have Microsoft 365 and don't even use it for email. They changed something and my outlook stopped working. I now use a third party email service and I'm thinking Google is the better option for me. Don't really need the complexity of Word, Excel or Power Point. I certainly don't need the chaos of Microsoft. The pricing plans say it all...they're just as confusing as the product.

Well explained. Thanks for sharing.

So how do Facebook Workplace compare to these products?

Jonathan or anyone. I like the comment about match device with product. That's big. BUT curious why does Microsoft WEB apps load and work SO SLOWLY!!!! Any recommendations??? Google workspace loads/ changes/ updates quickly as you go in and out of any of the Google apps.

Does Apple offer a similar suite for business?

Great Video. With Microsoft Teams, does the user have to install software to use it? Or can it also be browser based like Google Meet?

Is there an AWS product in this space?