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by Mizoguchi 1181 days ago
It really depends on the domain your spend your time on.

It's like living in Japan and saying, I rarely see people speaking English, how come it is the most spoken language in the world?

Most corporations, employing hundreds of millions of people, run entirely on Microsoft's suit of products, so it makes sense for them to go with Teams and 365, it integrates better with the rest of the stack, easier to manage from an IT perspective and then there's licenses cost and complexity as well.

I use Google G (or Workspace now) and Discord for my small business, but my customers at a corporate level use 365 / Teams.

I have my own preferences of course, I think Discord is better than Teams for meetings and collaboration, I particularly like the ability to stream multiple screens at the same time, for pair programming and troubleshooting it is very helpful.

But I don't think Teams prevents me from doing my job either, it works pretty well in my opinion and there's really not much difference in 365 and Google G as far as I can tell, in terms of what you can accomplish with it for basic tasks related to work.