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Google sheets, et al are free for personal use while Office 360 is a subscription as far as I know. The numbers given in the article specifically are users not

Google sheets, et al are free for personal use while Office 360 is a subscription as far as I know. The numbers given in the article specifically are users not paying customers. As quoted: > Google's G Suite boss Javier Soltero... did not say how many of those 2 billion users were paid Additionally it indicates that Office may have more paying users: > Google said roughly one year ago that 5 million businesses are now paying for G Suite, which pales in comparison to Microsoft Office 365's 200 million monthly active users of its version for businesses.

athms 6y ago
The conversation was about suites not individual applications. Even though you can use some of the separate GSuite applications for personal use, you cannot get GSuite for free. There is no free tier. Likewise, there is no free tier of Office/Microsoft 365, but there are free services that are considered part of this suite. How many of the 200 million monthly active users are customers? How many users were paid? If a person uses the free tier of OneDrive, OneNote, or Skype they are not considered a customer even though they are an active user. When you compare, you do like for like. The comparison is GSuite to Office 365, and many independent studies have said Google has a larger market share.