Microsoft 365
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Runs M365 suite perfectly, so ideal as an all in one.”
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“I pay for a 365/OneDrive subscription and it works well.”
“Your M365 connector aggressively avoids enumeration”
“For Docs use Google Workspace or Microsoft 365”
Caveats and dissent
“Office 365 is the bane of my work day.”
“required MS to disable their O365 email services”
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“I can't fathom why they would willingly try to migrate such critical operations away from a secure state-run system.”
“So my family plan used to give each member 1TB each (5TB total)...that will now drop to 2 TB”
Often compared with
4 moved from Microsoft 365 to LibreOffice
1 moved from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365openDesk7 comments mention both
1 moved from Microsoft 365 to NextcloudWindows 116 comments mention both
1 moved from Microsoft 365 to OnlyOffice
1 moved from Microsoft 365 to Google Docs
1 moved from Gmail to Microsoft 365
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I don’t think it offers the same functionality that M365 suite does.”
Threads where it came up
- Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices 8 mentions
- ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk 4 mentions
- Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products 3 mentions
- Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating 3 mentions
- Danish Gov agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence 3 mentions
- Self hosted email continues to steeply decline 2 mentions
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All comments 40
“Office 365 is the bane of my work day.”
“required MS to disable their O365 email services”
“I can't fathom why they would willingly try to migrate such critical operations away from a secure state-run system.”
“outlook and ms-365 for office etc.”
“So my family plan used to give each member 1TB each (5TB total)...that will now drop to 2 TB”
“Also note the hilarious framing instead of plainly saying that storage media has become more expensive:”
“translates MS "junk" into standard protocols”
“I don't think the M365 platform is the big hurdle it once was”
“Nextcloud can substitute MS365”
“Office 365 works with Wine on Linux”
“via the Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace API”
“horrible to use compared to notes”
“they seem to reconsider that this dependability might not have been a good idea”
“Haven't had an issue since I moved to 365.”
“I switched to M365 as my provider a few years back as my emails kept being flagged as spam.”
“they all don't even enforce SSL from server to server”
“Runs M365 suite perfectly, so ideal as an all in one.”
“Microsoft 365 aka Microsoft Copilot aka Office 365 has jumped off a cliff.”
“O365 browser stuff was always buggy”
“The Microsoft 365 Team rely HEAVILY on AI to for coding and development including security fixes.”
“They make it as painful as possible, and even disable copy/paste functionality”
“I pay for a Office365 subscription”
“The only reason I pay for M365 family is for the 1 TB per member storage.”
“I worry the next step is to make each agency negotiate their own individual licences”
“I could do everything I actually use it for in Numbers and Pages.”
“Copilot and MS365 have some API areas that no one outside MS actually knows what they do.”
“which is definitely not better than gmail”
“365 gives you 90d”
“MS365 fully from browser has so many annoyances”
“In Belgium, 72% of the communes are on Microsoft 365”
“I canceled my Microsoft 365 account due to their price hike”
“after some M365 hackery, my personal mail and calendar as well”
“no prompts to o365 my life up”
“Microsoft's IMAP migration feature loses folder structure”
“there is very real M365 lockin”
“At my day job more and more customers are reconsidering cloud adoption, especially M365 and such.”
“are forced into 365 when you want a desktop app”
“especially Office & M365”
“didn't originally have the Microsoft 365 branding attached to it”
“I pay for a 365/OneDrive subscription and it works well.”