Re: Competition
"If it's a Google cloud document yes then that's exactly how it works! You have to mail a URL instead. And yes that's partly why Office 365 is wiping the floor with Slurp in this space. There is a reason Amazon offer books for migrating from Google Apps to O365, but not the reverse!"
That is a, probably knowingly, totally incorrect set of statements. You can definitely download a Google Doc and email it to whoever. IT has the ability to turn off the ability to download docs because there is no need to do so. Much better to just share a URL link with whoever you want to send the doc to. That person clicks on the link and they are in the doc. The end. This is an infinitely better approach than download, attach and email for many reasons. 1) Everyone is working off the same doc and you don't end up with 40 slightly different versions of the doc. 2) IT has a log of who exactly has access to the doc and can revoke that access at any time so people don't share the doc with a competitor, etc. 3) It is way more storage and bandwidth efficient than constantly downloading and emailing.
Microsoft has more Office365 users than Google G Suite because Office365 is just old Microsoft applications which people have used forever with (unreliable) Exchange and SharePoint server hosting. That is Office365. They started with far more users so Google hasn't completely overtaken them in a few years but they have been a pretty large dent.... It's not like Office365 is some completely new product which is totally different than Outlook, Office, etc that people have used for 25 years.
There are tens of thousands of companies that have migrated from MSFT to Google. How many can you name that went back to Office365 off of Google? I'm sure there are some given the size of the install base, but very few.
There are probably books of Amazon because Microsoft pays for there to be books on Amazon.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
