[Mauricebranagh]

And that's a pretty low bar for power users BTW.

Google cloud is ok for "formatting your Christmas card list in Norwegian" to use a literary allusion.

But when you come to writing specs and reports used by multiple teams word /excel is still by far the best solution.

[mhluongo]

Makes sense, that must be my Microsoft office products are winning at software shops /s

Best for you, maybe. I haven't found a real use for either in the past 5 years writing software and running product. The only role in the org that has needed Excel over Sheets is finance, and the only time we touch Word is when we're dealing with outside legal and they aren't comfortable with anything but Word for redlines. Even then, junior partners have apologized and said they've tried to convince the firm to switch.

[will4274]

Why did they apologize? I have to say, this smells political - if Excel and Sheets are just two pieces of software, then there's no reason to apologize for liking one more than the other. For somebody at the partner level to apologize and ask for a change in a users' workflow - seems like catering to people who have a political issue with Microsoft, rather than judging on technical merits.

[mhluongo]

Because it's a pain in the ass for us, their clients, to interface with their office software.

Note that this particular firm serves a ton of tech startups. I don't expect a firm that does, say, real estate financing hears many complaints from their clientele.

[ghaff]

GSuite (and probably O365) are probably actually pretty good examples of opinionated vs. the all the options offline MS Office.

Personally, myself and people I work with mostly like GSuite. We're probably generally described as heavy users but not power users, i.e. we don't need the features that only a few percent of people do. I actually find GSuite much more streamlined for my uses and collaborative editing is such a win. I do create fairly long docs sometimes but they're not complicated docs.

[Jenk]

Do you have any examples of what is superior in O365? As my other reply states I've found it to be the opposite - GSuite supports _more_ than MS does online.

[Mauricebranagh]

I did mean the real local word etc not the shite online versions.

Main thing is structured documents tracking changes, macros to automate processes.