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I too am laughing at the suggestions to swap Google for Microsoft stuff.
by warner25 4y ago
I too am laughing at the suggestions to swap Google for Microsoft stuff.
- jrockway 4y agoI am probably too far gone to be taken seriously, but my startup got acquired and we had to switch from Google to Microsoft and I actually kind of like the Microsoft stuff. It has dark mode! If you're going to be Last Name, First Name at an 80k employee company, at least your calendar can be visually pleasant to look at.
- iLoveOncall 4y agoI think it's totally fine if your reason for wanting to move away from Google is not ideological or privacy-related. "It's better" is a good reason to switch. But this is clearly not the case in the original article.
- warner25 4y agoSure, I don't think Microsoft's stuff is necessarily terrible. At work I've always been fully immersed in Windows and Office, as both a regular user and IT guy, and it's fine for that. I was even using Windows and Edge on my personal laptop as recently as 2021. But if you're trying to get away from Google as a soulless mega-cap corporation that wants to trick you into giving up more of your data, switching to Microsoft doesn't seem like much of a switch.
- pedro2 4y agoI agree with you. That being said, I'd be strongly inclined to believe all your stuff [from Personal Accounts] -- even if only its metadata -- will be fed to OpenAI/Bing's Sidney sooner or later. Same with Google with regards to Bard.
- pedro2 4y agoFor now Google's counterparts still rate better on interoperability (CalDAV, CardDAV).