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How is OneDrive different in this sense?

by juskrey 6y ago

lordnacho 6y ago
It's similar, but chances are you won't lose both accounts at once.
FirstLvR 6y ago
Office 365 is overall better plus, never seen anyone complaining about getting their officce account deleted into void
- kashura 6y ago
  That's a pretty broad statement. I suppose that depends on your use case?
  - FirstLvR 6y ago
    well yeah my case is that Excel and word are the best option. They integrate nicely with onedrive and you can plugin the documents into sharepoint and several other platforms within microsoft ecosystem i might be biased due the fact am an azure power user and have several other tools that work together
- iow84wer 6y ago
  At least in Germany some sites/blogs reported in the last few month that many users lost their Microsoft accounts without reason, so i wouldn't be too sure about this. One user is even suing Microsoft because of this: (article is in german) https://www.drwindows.de/news/konto-gesperrt-nutzer-reicht-klage-gegen-microsoft-ein https://www.drwindows.de/news/konto-gesperrt-nutzer-reicht-k...
Mikho 6y ago
Because MS Office is a different business than giving away free accounts to collect user data. It provides cloud services for money. I guess MS has much better redundancy mechanisms and pretty much committed to not lose your data. Well, shit happens sometimes even with people having the best intentions to do the right thing. Though I didn't hear about a single case of MS losing people's data. But I'm sure MS would handle such situations differently than blaming it on a user and just terminating accounts.
- kashura 6y ago
  You mentioned the word "value". Is there another tangible value to you in O365 vs G Suite besides the redundancy?
  - Mikho 6y ago
    Value = proper Office suite online and offline with proper document formatting and files + more storage. Altogether cheaper than G Suite. Also it's really great value to have Office installed locally as a proper software. Not a crappy dumbed down browser web-site.
    - kashura 6y ago
      I pay for Gsuite which is $6/mo and extra 100gb of storage, for $8 total. The part that drives me nuts about 0365 is that they don't allow custom email domains below Business 0365 which is $12 a month.
      - ksk 6y ago
        Hmm I see it at $6.99/mo .. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/microsoft-365-personal/cfq7ttc0k5bf?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/microsoft-36...
        kashura 6y ago
        Personal plan doesn't allow you to use custom domain for the email address EXCEPT for 1 domain that is registered with GoDaddy. And you can't share that domain with another account.
      - deleted 6y ago
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  - WalterSobchak 6y ago
    It is now Google Workspace (formerly G Suite). https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace/introducing-google-workspace https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace/introducing...

How is OneDrive different in this sense?

lordnacho 6y ago

It's similar, but chances are you won't lose both accounts at once.

FirstLvR 6y ago

Office 365 is overall better plus, never seen anyone complaining about getting their officce account deleted into void

kashura 6y ago
That's a pretty broad statement. I suppose that depends on your use case?
- FirstLvR 6y ago
  well yeah my case is that Excel and word are the best option. They integrate nicely with onedrive and you can plugin the documents into sharepoint and several other platforms within microsoft ecosystem i might be biased due the fact am an azure power user and have several other tools that work together
iow84wer 6y ago
At least in Germany some sites/blogs reported in the last few month that many users lost their Microsoft accounts without reason, so i wouldn't be too sure about this. One user is even suing Microsoft because of this: (article is in german) https://www.drwindows.de/news/konto-gesperrt-nutzer-reicht-klage-gegen-microsoft-ein https://www.drwindows.de/news/konto-gesperrt-nutzer-reicht-k...

Mikho 6y ago

Because MS Office is a different business than giving away free accounts to collect user data. It provides cloud services for money. I guess MS has much better redundancy mechanisms and pretty much committed to not lose your data. Well, shit happens sometimes even with people having the best intentions to do the right thing. Though I didn't hear about a single case of MS losing people's data. But I'm sure MS would handle such situations differently than blaming it on a user and just terminating accounts.

kashura 6y ago
You mentioned the word "value". Is there another tangible value to you in O365 vs G Suite besides the redundancy?
- Mikho 6y ago
  Value = proper Office suite online and offline with proper document formatting and files + more storage. Altogether cheaper than G Suite. Also it's really great value to have Office installed locally as a proper software. Not a crappy dumbed down browser web-site.
  - kashura 6y ago
    I pay for Gsuite which is $6/mo and extra 100gb of storage, for $8 total. The part that drives me nuts about 0365 is that they don't allow custom email domains below Business 0365 which is $12 a month.
    - ksk 6y ago
      Hmm I see it at $6.99/mo .. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/microsoft-365-personal/cfq7ttc0k5bf?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/microsoft-36...
      - kashura 6y ago
        Personal plan doesn't allow you to use custom domain for the email address EXCEPT for 1 domain that is registered with GoDaddy. And you can't share that domain with another account.
    - deleted 6y ago
      [deleted]
- WalterSobchak 6y ago
  It is now Google Workspace (formerly G Suite). https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace/introducing-google-workspace https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace/introducing...