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hnlmorg 2 days ago

Because it’s a low bitrate micky mouse toy.

MS Teams might have its issues (and let’s be clear, i agree there are a great many issues) but it has most, if not all, of the Enterprise features you need from a video conferencing suite.

Whereas Google Meets feels more like a cut down toy you’d give to your grandparents.

It’s the same thing with Google Docs. They’re technically impress for the era they were launched, but they’re stuck in the 2010s. Doing anything outside of the basics quickly becomes far far more frustrating than using O365.

Microsoft might write a lot of terrible software with some questionable design choices, but they understand enterprise uses far better than Google.

Even Google Workspaces is severely limited once your business grows beyond 50 people.

I guess if you only work in startups then Google might seem like an easy win. But for any business that’s more established, you just constantly run into huddles with Googles suite of software.

As for GCP, I’ve been burned too many times with their support processes. 7 days to approve a GPU quota. Account managers literally trying to steal business secrets (when I worked for an AI start up and Google were stagnating in the AI space). And so on and so forth. Though I’ve not been hugely impressed with Azure either; they constantly break managed services and ballsup scalability promises and then refuse to admit it until we present them with empirical evidence. It really feels like the best cloud engineers have left Microsoft (or maybe never joined?).