[firefoxkekw]

365 is the cloud base suite of Microsoft Office, you can still use the Microsoft Office 2021 Professional or older versions.

365 is a nice way of collaborate at work, if you are a small business is a nice product, for the big companies this is just going to be more headache for their I.T department, so now instead of relying in the Microsoft servers to allocate and store the documents, they will use any other server from who knows what company and hosted who knows where, some will be hosted with e2ee including at rest while others will end up using some shit show of servers from a company owned by some dude from not so friendly countries.

I understand that privacy for companies is a big risk, but regulating it this way can easily end with a cobra effect.

[tommica]

Yeah, the file storage is so messy - I still don't know if the file I saved is in SharePoint or onedrive, and that they seem to be the same but different at the same time

[forgotusername6]

I've found these cloud editing solutions great for working with your colleagues but terrible for collaborating externally. You can't share a doc with their company for policy reasons and likewise they can't share with you.

I've resorted to sending docx back and forward instead.

[CharlesW]

> I've found these cloud editing solutions great for working with your colleagues but terrible for collaborating externally.

You can blame this on your O365 admins rather than Microsoft. For admins who want to generally restrict external sharing, it can even be limited to select Document Libraries. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/solutions/co...

[forgotusername6]

It is admins that are to blame, but not making easy for an end user to get permission to share something is on Microsoft.

Also not just Microsoft is at fault. Using Google docs to share with a company that doesn't have Google docs is just as painful.