• XenGi@lemmy.chaos.berlin
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    I don’t get why people still use Microsoft services. How many data privacy scandals do we need, so they understand? Or do they still not care?

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        1 year ago

        In taking about personal email. I also use outlook at work because I’m forced to, but I would never let these bastards touch my private Mails.

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      Because my line of work means I working corporations, and they ALWAYS run everything on the big names, Microsoft and Oracle.

      At home, I have choice. At work, I must swallow.

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          If you’re working with clients that requires you to have security certifications it can be a real pain in the ass to certify your setup for everything vs just using the 365 stack.

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            True. Hate it when people want the cert instead of actual security. But I know how the world ticks. Corporate usually doesn’t give you a choice.

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        And at work I don’t really care. It’s not my data they are “looking” at. It’s my employers.

        I guess they won’t lose any corporate customers over this. The pure shit that it outlooks hasn’t scared anyone away yet.

        I tried to delete ~7k emails today. I had to kill the process since it stopped responding. Wtf?

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        It’s honestly pretty expensive compared to the alternatives. If you compare a business setup with windows plus office etc plus the support fee you can get all of that for free plus a much lower support fee from a variety of independent companies with Linux and libreoffice. The typical office worker really doesn’t need the few corner cases where MS office maybe has an advantage. Honestly for a business I would even go with Google tools. Same data privacy issues, but at least the product works great. MS office in the cloud is hot garbage.

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            What else would I mention? Some doesn’t have an office suite and figure is the only other competitor.

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          imnate compatibility with other organisations is a huge selling point.

          For companies at a certain scale / within a certain field I don’t think it’s even up for discussion.

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        Yeah but at least Google offers a good search engine while sniffing all your data. Microsoft products are usually hot garbage, sniff your data and then loose it. Also what is the Amazon index?

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      I have a government job (shocking to me still) and everything is on Exchange and 365. I don’t know why, other than “nobody ever got fired for recommending IBM.”