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[–] Manalith@midwest.social 2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I was checking recently for a side thing I'm helping with and Google's base tier is $7/month/user vs Microsoft's Business Basic, so no desktop apps, but basically fully equivalent to Google was $6/month/user. I was honestly flabbergasted.

[–] qbus@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

Is it worth a dollar a month to not use teams?

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting, that's got to be intentional. Microsoft was so slow to webbify their Office suite (and probably thought why should we?it's printing money!) that they lost out on a generation of startup companies.

The thought of switching back to Microsoft hasn't even crossed my mind since I moved everything to Google around a decade ago. But now I'm actively de-googling because they're starting to mess with the core solutions.

[–] Manalith@midwest.social 1 points 11 hours ago

Personally I'd go with something else entirely, but for a nonprofit both those tiers are free for up to like 300 users which is hard to say no to