[Meph504]

I think this maybe more related to that Microsoft is actually doing a massive rework of Skype, dumping the old Lync infrastructure and front end, and moving to their "teams" implementation.

In doing so they are dumping a lot of what they consider to be legacy support. With the advent and popularity of mobile apps, users today are seemingly fine with being told their their services are only available through this one channel.

So why take on the burden and effort to support something most people don't seem to care about (though they should) for what boils down to less than 2% of the user base?

This new, "we dictate to you, massive, breaking changes, and features you don't have control" mentality is a drastic change in behavior at Microsoft, Their adaptability, and building tools that worked on damn near everything, is what allowed them to dominate the office OS, this new change may play a part in them reinventing themselves and allow them to become more agile. But I can tell you, its pissing a lot of people off, from an administration perspective, their OS, and software are becoming a nightmare to manage when not used as they dictate.

Sadly though, currently there is no alternatives, Google's G suite might as well be DOA, they've let their promising online office suite wither on the vine. IBM never could get their product off the ground.

Aside from cobbling together multiple disconnected 3rd services, its really difficult to do anything but just site back and let them dictate terms.

[the_jeremy]

What's wrong with G Suite? I know a couple companies that use it, and it seems pretty handy. I mean, there's still Windows and MS Office that Google doesn't compete with, but hangouts/gmail/google calendar all worked well when I was at a company that used them.

[Meph504]

I use to be a large advocate of gsuite, back in the days of it being google apps. I still support several non-profits that still use their free organization tier.

But the fact is, google hasn't kept pace at all, and it largely feels like an abandoned product.

If you spend sometime comparing the functionality, features, and UI of office 365 to Gsuite, it's nearly impossible to recommend google over them at this point.

The fact that microsoft throws in the complete office suite for desktop, as well as a really solid web product at the same price as google is another thing that makes it hard to recommend them.

I really hope that google, decides to invest more in this product, but until they do, I can't recommend them anymore.