If you aren't running Windows, you probably aren't using Office. Half the reason for Office is Exchange, and half the reason is the integration of Exchange with Active Directory.

Without any of that, does Office make sense anymore compared to something like GSuite?

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jimnotgym 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Correct. IT departments want Active Directory.

Create a user, apportion a 365 licence and boom, they have email, Teams, OneDrive etc. Add them to some groups and they have all the files they need.

Excel is better than Sheets in ways which are important for 0.01% of users, but that is all.

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NetMageSCW 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I think Excel is better in Sheets in ways that are important for a lot more users, but it isn’t the same ways for each user.

	▲	jimnotgym 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Also, which I should have said, is for that small group, the missing Sheets features are a show-stopper, not just an annoyance

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stackskipton 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yea. Even if you are all MacOS shop, Office has Desktop Applications that run on MacOS.

I find so many companies that use GSuite still buy Office licenses for select employees. There is plenty of places that will just go all in 365 for that reason alone.

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eviks 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ok, so it's an important dependency, but the fact that it's a small product line can still explain the neglect. For example, is it baffling that companies don't invest time/money in open source libraries they use even though those might be important for their main products?