4 ms·
Having worked for companies that used both, I actually vastly prefer G-suite to Office. Office seems to have stagnated over the years in the corporate environm
by CoolGuySteve 8y ago
Having worked for companies that used both, I actually vastly prefer G-suite to Office.
Office seems to have stagnated over the years in the corporate environment. The two main issues are 1) email search is slow and returns weird results and 2) shared document editing is non-existent so people email everything to each other, things go out of date, no version control, etc.
I’m much happier now using Linux with G-suite than I was using Windows and Office just because the rest of the developer experience in Linux is so smooth.
In finance, there’s also something to be said for the culture of a company where people know to use numerical software like R or Pandas instead of leaning on Excel. Like over the years I’ve noticed that the kind of person that insists on sending me Excel spreadsheets is markedly less conscientious.
- ABCLAW 8y agoNot to excuse outlook for its failures, but G-suite email searching also breaks once you hit a certain inbox size. As for shared document editing, most places develop intra-office file system-level habits that avoid the problem, or use specific hosting sites to co-ordinate multiple teams on a platform agnostic basis. On a per-document basis, Word's review, commenting and blacklining features are worlds better than the G-suite equivalents.
- smhenderson 8y agoI'm not a huge fan and managing it is a bit of a pain but if you use Sharepoint you can configure it to allow simultaneous document editing. I believe this was introduced in Sharepoint 2010.
- m_mueller 8y agoOffice 365 with onedrive is much nicer than SharePoint IMO.
- c256 8y agoIt exists, but it’s been a pretty terrible experience every time I’ve tried it (roughly once every 12-15 months since ~2011). GSuite has some occasional issues arising from connectivity issues, but these also happen to Office365, and are at least as bad (often worse) than in Google Docs and Sheets (I almost never use PowerPoint or Slides, so maybe things are different there.)
- smhenderson 8y agoI hear you. Concurrent editing is not enabled where I work because the headaches aren’t worth it. I honestly don’t have enough experience with GSuite to make a good comparison, just mentioned Sharepoint because we just recently reopened the conversation about concurrent editing. Once again we’re passing for now!
- ghaff 8y agoI think it helps that G-suite is mostly focused on a 90% set of features that most people need most of the time. As a result, you can't do absolutely everything in G-suite (and unimplemented features will be a showstopper for some types of users) but the result is a very streamlined and smooth experience for most of us. I still have to open up Office now and then but it's pretty rare these days--especially given that G-suite is now the standard where I work.
- jscholes 8y ago> Like over the years I’ve noticed that the kind of person that insists on sending me Excel spreadsheets is markedly less conscientious. While your observation may be based on anecdotal evidence in this instance, just a reminder that not everybody's technology choices are defined by factors that are so black and white. For example, I'm well aware of several tools on Linux which can blow my Windows-based workflow out of the water. But my visual impairment means I can't use them, because accessibility on Linux is terrible. Take the time to consider the possibility that maybe somebody has been forced into the usage of a certain tool by circumstance, rather than by the fact that they're bad at their job. If I was to use the tools you love, I would probably deliver subpar results.
- m_mueller 8y agoShared editing works btw. but I've had cases where it acted up. Overall it's more a culture thing than lack of the feature.