To preface, I am Swedish.

But I work in IT and Office 365 is not "Office suite online" anymore. Office 365 started with running Exchange in the cloud by MS as it is a PITA for IT. That was basically it.

Office 365 is now:

- Office suite, both online and desktop apps (Vital for full feature Excel)

- Entra for Users, Groups and Policy, SSO, conditional access, MFA (Entra is actually Azure AD, not sure if this is still the case but all Office 365 get an Azure AD tenant it runs on)

- Device management via Intune, that is policy, push apps/installs, reinstalls, Autopilot, run scripts etc on machines, device state config

- File sharing with Sharepoint & Teams & personal Onedrive (this also adds endpoint backup)

- Teams - chat, video, workspace - We live in Teams at work.

- Email (that includes admin, extensive admin)

- DLP - Data loss prevention

- The power suite where users & admins can make their own apps

+ MS Graph API for all this

Oh, and it comes with Copilot chat baked in (GTP 5.3 based now) with enterprise controls.

At a big company you can have people ONLY working on the Entra part to secure user accounts. Or people ONLY on Intune to setup and manage PCs, policy etc.

Office 365 is a beast and I will argue GSuite does not match up as companies basically HAVE to buy Slack on the side to get parity. Also sysadmin on GSuite sucks.

The link actually made me laugh but also sad. It is frankly embarrassing. We in EU can do tech Spotify, Klarna, Lovable, Mojang, Dice, Arelion, Ericsson and this is only in Sweden. Look at a 4G network, it is insanley complex.

So yea not sure what the solution is. But this is too little too late. It should have started in 2008 maybe they would have a chance. It is also sheer numbers. MS is massive and Azure/O365 is their cash cow now. They make sure it is damn good.