[fsniper]

I'm not very keen on office365.

Our new ceo force migrated us to office365 from gmail and our experience so far is not par with gmail. Very lacking or even unusable ui, not working or frustrating filters, very bad experience with imap clients unread email appearing read. And the very best part; there is no select all :)

And the shameless plug: Also your idea about selling migration services is very interesting. If any one is in need of system administration, integration, performance analysis, optimization, configuration management and devops like services I'm here to help.

[mattmanser]

As someone who just helped migrate a client to exchange online, do not get it. It's shockingly awful.

They have two separate admin interfaces, neither of which you can do everything in so you have to break out powershell to finish off the job. The client had to lean heavily on me to help, something other clients have never had to do with gmail.

I like a lot of MS products, but from my brief exposure, exchange is a complete mess of WTFs. And annoyingly, googling doesn't often bring up pertinent answers and their help is pathetic.

[odonnellryan]

Having used both from an admin and a user perspective, Gmail is definitely better all-around.

Gmail is not flaky the way O365 is. Random outages with no explanation/contact from support until days after remedy...are no fun.

[FLUX-YOU]

Are you using the web app or the installed app? I haven't had a bit of a problem with the installed version (The UI can be slow though).

[fsniper]

I'm a linux guy I do not need to touch windows or windows clients daily so what I'm talking about is web ui.

[raincom]

O365 is good for existing corporate customers who use inhouse exchange servers. Thats what microsoft shops are doing these days: migrate from inhouse exchange to O365.

Otherwise, I don't see why small shops wanna move away from gmail to O365.