Google Workspace

“Something else that can help is stuff like Google Workspace and keeping the credentials for the admin account very secure”

“Lack of compat with Google workspace (eg sharing audio for a single tab on meet) meant it did not stick.”

“Big benefit of this combination is that you get "login with google", docs, drive, hangouts”

“I really like having my email via gmail. SSO and spam filtering and Google Docs.”

“endpoint management on these was (presumably) a breeze if you had G-Suite/Workspace, a perfect combination for budget-constrained schools”

“the ease of use and convenience of Google's tools, and how easily they enable collaborative work”

“if you have a use case for using personal custom domains then move to google workspace”

“I would NEVER EVER move company critical services to Google or any other provider if they legitimately don't care or don't have the qualification to fix an issue at the sign up stage.”

“if you think charging back against Google will result in a human reaching out to actually resolve the problem you are sorely mistaken”

“Google has a computer making decisions that affect humans, and then they then have humans defending the decisions a computer did.”

“If they cannot even provide proper support for sign up, what will happen when your account gets disabled for no obvious reason”

“it wouldn't let me in because the 2FA code wasn't working, and a recovery code wasn't sufficient to enable privileged access”

“The idea that using market pressure from one product a company sells to squeeze out competition in another is totally fine”

“They're not stupid, they know that this is an effective lever to further cement full-fat chrome as the default browser for the internet.”

“GSuite is standard practice even among many large companies provided they were founded in the past ~15 years”

“You can turn a lot of this stuff off by having a Google Cloud account and using their "business-class" product”

“when my account was suspended, it was practically impossible to resubscribe because no Workspace plan could accommodate the amount of storage I used”

“Was a fucking ripoff for the domain thing...but domain plus premium chat clearly marked as "we won't train on your data"”

“Google's suite is great for collaboration and okay for limited work, but falls over completely”

“It's all way more stable and low-admin than any other desktop software I've used at least!”

“I got into some sort of a login loop where Authenticator, SMS, DNS record nor pass key would provide enough authentication for me to get in.”

“Gsuite as a whole has more or less the required pieces, but there is no single google product that covers the feature set of Outlook + Exchange.”

“There are a number of US states that have moved off Microsoft (mostly to G-Suite)”

“once you're a paying customer --and hence you're not the product anymore--, there are actual people helping you on the phone when you call them”

“they should be thankful that Google bounced the messages with some appropriate error explaining how to solve it”

“I suspect that Google going out of their way to make this required had a very reasonable and thought-out process”

“Google Workspace with Chromebooks. No windows endpoints getting a virus or ransomware or some other malware.”

“I've been paying for Google Workspace for my custom domain for years basically just so I can use Gmail”

“Google products are great, until you run into an issue you need to talk to a human.”

“I can have email aliases under that domain, and even choose the alias for outgoing email.”

“their (admittedly decently) UI to power my firstname @ lastname dot com email address”

“Google never looks at or uses your corporate data, and there are tons of internal controls over that”

“Google Workspace is extremely popular with new features coming out constantly, used by tons of corporations.”

“Never had spam reports in all that time; delivery is better than $dayjob's 30-year-old domain.”

“Gemini Pro comes with my Google Workspace subscription, which means that it doesn't train on my data.”

“Workspace needs better DLP controls, and more of the enterprise-y things that MS wins at”

“Google probably gets the closest but doesn't have a chat service like Slack, Teams or Discord”

“sharing documents across organizations and being able to search for them successfully org wide has gotten much better now”

“I've built and worked at multiple companies that are entirely in the Google Workspace ecosystem.”

“the most popular web-based office suite software (e.g., the Google suite) is less powerful than the more desktop-orientated competitors”