Google Workspace vs Microsoft 365 (2021) - What's the Best Office Software?

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) has always been the king of office software. Google has thrown its hat in the ring with it's Workspace suite of products. Can Google take the throne from Microsoft? We look at the best use cases and features of each product.

[portman]

As an IT admin I prefer the Google Workspace environment. Very easy to manage users and the many different applications on offer, the marketplace is a plus too. Cloud based is easier to manage than local.

[mattiif]

Wow, you're such a little YouTuber and YouTube recommended this to me. That is rare!

[imnobodywhoareyouu]

Small business here, I started with google workspace without thinking too much about it and now I realize that 365 is much better for me. So I’m migrating right now.

[thehoratiojay]

Thank you for this video, I am so glad that I found this because I want to help small YouTubers. I also want you to know that I used this video in my College Assignment and gave you credit.

[justbelit]

I think teams and all the additional features hit Microsoft out of the park

[angusorvid]

I'd use Google Workspace if I ran a biz. It's just so much easier to use than Office. I use Office and the Google suite but for ease of use you can't beat the latter.

[ricdonato]

It is beyond me why YouTube content creators think it necessary or cool playing music over their voice. We came to hear and understand you not fight background music which quickly becomes annoying background noise. Many folks have hearing difficulties, thus background music takes away their enjoyment of listening to what you are explaining.

[cryptotieguy]

For me the best one is Internxt Teams, private and efficient. But even though I don't like the alternatives since they are not secure or private at all, I gotta say your video is amazing, and I really enjoy your explanation. It would be great if you made a video about decentralized clouds. I'm sure I would love it!

[stephenhall]

No mention of Libre Office. I have been a MS Office user since the 1990s [which is when the kernel of Office was written] but many people I tutor use Libre Office then than pick and choose their cloud storage depending on the best offers available.
The more I investigate Libre Office the more I feel that my MS Office 'loyalty' has been misplaced because it has simply not evolved in its core features but has instead messed about with icons, lost any sense of fun and encouragement and, you will recall, pulled a dirty trick with 2013 in changing the 'Save As' default bullying users to use OneDrive (still called SkyDrive then). Features in MS Office come then are "deprecated" without explanation, many language scripts are still not coherently supported and templates once included to keep as late as 2007 have to be downloaded to view.
MS Office has been the milch cow of the company for decades and still charges premium prices for far from premium product.
On the other hand Libre Office is open source and mostly free. It is not associated with a particular browser and does not advertise cloud storage packages. Used alongside Google Images and Slides it is what MS used to be but 100 times better.
I do not find word processing and spreadsheets in Google to be consistent enough to recommend at this stage when Libre Office is straightforwardly excellent in ALL core features.
Google needs to make up its mind what it is doing without so much changing and tweaking to get core features right.

[djmojo]

EXCELLENT SYNPOSIS in a short amount of time. Thank you!!

[ayeshas]

Business Starter— 30 GB storage per user
Business Standard— 2 TB pooled storage per user
Kindly let me know the limitations of the Google drive storage in 1st Plan. Does that mean the cloud is not shared with all team members? Is that only possible with Standard Plan? Could you please help me with this storage concepts in the two plans.

[ahhahhahhaa]

we all agree that Microsoft is better .

[Niktalksalot]

I use Microsoft for everything I don't even use Google except for YouTube

[RoboforEducation.]

Google work space is better than Microsoft 365 applications.