Switching to Microsoft 365 from Google Workspace

Love your honesty and comprehensive and especially very practical reasons there - you da man!

Such a similar scenario to you! Thanks for this video! Going through the same with my agency soon. 365 surprisingly has become better for collab tools, outlook add-ins, now more affordable and the light admin center is now easier to use than google workspace admin.

I remember a time before subscriptions. why have we all grown to accept Office as a subscription service. Crazy.

Love this! Recently joined a company that use Google Workspace but immediately picked up that everything is an added app with a subscription. Most ironic part of all is that every single user also has Microsoft apps and still uses them 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’m now busy with an application / tool rationalization exercise to show the true cost of what Google Workspace is costing the organization. I believe what Microsoft offers as standard features far outweighs Google’s offering.

Liked your take and found it helpful. I used to be a MS windows user during my corporate days. I have since retired but am involved with a couple of startups and looking at starting a new venture that could if successful grow very quickly in terms of staffing. I use a Mac and I am in the Apple Eco system with hardware but still use microsoft 365 for the office suite. I use Google for gmail and all my current emails are gmail based. I would like to pick a platform to minimize the number of other apps with my new venture. I think you have convinced me that 365 is the way to go. I may still keep dropbox as I find it really quick and easy. For my personal use I use a few Apple apps, like reminders, photos and notes. Again, thanks for this video, I just subscribed to your channel.

Great video. Useful insights. Thank you.

OneDrive had one thing going for it: Your critical files are backed up to the cloud. If you have to do a clean install of Windows, nothing is lost.

Thanks for the great insights!

I agree with your assessment of Google's solution. I'm curious about what you're experiencing at the one-year mark. Do you have any new insights concerning the switch.

My understanding about storage is M365 tops out at 50GB of mail storage, and has a separate quote for file storage, as compared to GW that combines your total storage for mail and file storage.

Thank you!

Hey Jerad, great video! It feels strange to leave gmail and Workspace, but your video removed my concerns. Hello Microsoft ;)

Thank you!!!

How do you feel almost a year later? I recently attempted switching to 365 Bus and OMG - 10 days and hundreds of $ and dozens of hours later I spent Thanksgiving holiday wiping MS Office setup and wiping Windows 11. Exchange, Entra, and Home Admin was a mess! After setting up Outlook, my OneNote stopped working - it wouldn't sync. Four MS 'ambassadors' and hours on the phone and remote assist...no help. I need to get something hooked back up before Monday and I am seriously considering going back to Workspace because I'm scared to death of trying MS again. I don't know what went wrong (we didn't even migrate anything!). MS seemed so slow and my internet speeds are blazin' with all other sites. All I can figure is MS bloat because of so many apps: Outlook, Teams, Dev (and I can't get rid of this - so much I don't want)....anyway, as I'm sitting here trying to decide what to do I was hoping you could give me 'one year later'. Thanks Jerad.

it's time for open standards (file formats, features), to be used in businesses. It's INSANE, that you cannot choose which tools to use, because of compatibility issues, that Microsoft enforces on purpose. seriously FUCK that behavior.. Being TOO dependent on ONE vendor/developer is VERY DANGEROUS! Being able to easily switching tools, while still being able to fully use the files, is ESSENTIAL for the future. Time for companies to WAKE UP.

Outlook sucks. The search functionality is all over the place and html formatting for it is a nightmare. Teams constantly crashes. As somebody who has worked with both, I am going Google. And exactly for what are you using spark for? Gmail has chat and calender integrated. Just as outloom. So same feel in the mobile version.

Excellent video.

Brilliant information, appreciate it and i think i'm braking up with googles workspace!

Do you still use your gmail emails and calendar in Outlook? Did you loose the ability to use Labels and other features gmail ?

Thinking the same, me as an Agency owner. What about Google Analytics, Google Ads, etc... attached to a Gmail/google workspace account?