[tomcam]

Nope. It’s now also a paid enterprise product (at consumer prices) so it probably pays for itself. I’ve been a customer since day 1 and think the $7/month or so it costs is ridiculously low. Also see this critically important comment regarding use of your own domain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19566056

[scruffyherder]

Its a horrible UI, and insanely expensive. GMAIL is a joke. I know there is a massive anti MS circle jerk, but I'm paying HK$97.00 (12.42 USD) user/month for Office 365 Business Premium. And it's SO much better than gmail will ever hope to be.

google products are clearly written by people fresh out of high school. They are utterly devoid of features and functionality that MS had developed 20 years ago. It's so sad the lack of desktop integration, alerts, rules, and being able to utilize external data in 'sheets' and other nonsensical toy apps.

But we have a generation that grew up on 'free' crap and they honestly don't know any better, and MS is far too inept to market anything.

Also it's so nice to not be the ones with the 'old and out of date' office installs, or doing bids with big companies and not being able to open their XL sheets. I can't even fathom trying to compete using children's toys like google anything.

[tomcam]

I agree with much of what you’re saying, but the search and spam control make it worth far more than what I pay. YMMV certainly.

[gdulli]

Let's be honest, it's also a big way they build data on you and show you targeted ads so I'm sure it pays for itself without direct revenue.

[wstrange]

They do not scan the contents of mail for advertising purposes (consumer as of 2? years ago, and for paid gsuite I don't recall them ever doing this).

[michalskop]

Just wondering how you would know that they do or do not do that?

[datguacdoh]

They are pretty explicit about it here https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...

[koolba]

Does that include those of us lucky enough to sign up prior to them actually charging for g-suite and being grandfathered into. Free plan for up to 10 users?

[TMWNN]

My limit of 50 users laughs at your puny 10.

(I believe the original limit was 100, so someone who signed up in time for that can now come along and laugh at us.)

[jkaplowitz]

Yes.

[dunefox]

Yeah, sure they don't...