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[–] 1 point 1 year ago* (15 children)

Anyone is still using M$ Office/Outlook/365? With a ton of better alternatives out there.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I'm guessing the vast majority of its users are students and corporate employees, neither of which get a say in which software is used.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They have no say.. up until everyone actually says something. Then maybe we do have a say.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Uhuh. Let me know how that works for you, out in a real corporate setting.

    In my experience you can say all you want (if you're lucky), but in the end, switching providers on a large scale costs a lot of money. And their money is more important than your discomfort.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Convincing just one person there is an issue is progress. Cooperating with another for better negotiations is progress.

    Are there benefits of promoting inaction?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You can either pick a battle that you cannot win (assuming you're not the one in charge of the many millions such a migration would cost). You can just deal with it, or you can look for better circumstances.

    You say you're convincing people, management sees a trouble maker who's spreading unhappiness.

    In my opinion, it's better to save your energy for something where it can make a change, not a futile attempt at trying to make an institute drop Outlook or Teams, or whatever shitty software we're talking about.

    But hey, this is just my advice. You do you.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I am just because it’s so cheap. On the family plan I get 5TB of storage for £10.49. Proton costs more than that for 500GB.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    For cloud storage I use Filen (Germany), 10GB for free

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But the closest thing to the 6 TB Microsoft offers, would be the 10TB from filen at €400 a year. Whereas with Microsoft, it's only $120 a year and you get all the other services. Say what you will about the quality of MS products, but they are the cheaper option here.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Plus it’s a backup location for stuff I simply can’t lose, like the photos of my daughter being born and my wedding. I don’t want to trust them to some company that might suddenly go into administration without any notice.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Plus it’s a backup location for stuff I simply can’t lose

    It's not a backup. You're using "cloud storage".

    I just want you to understand that, because Microsoft's online storage is not somewhere I would entrust with precious data.

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