Matisyahu's Blog

I finished my work tonight at 8pm and I’ve been enjoying the first couple hours of my much-needed break – looking forward to WWDC but in the meantime I am giving Microsoft Edge a try and I might even give Office 365 Business Standard a try to see how it compares to Apple iCloud and Google Workspace. The last time I used Office 365 was many years ago but from what I have read it has improved greatly along with better support for email aliases. The funny thing I have noticed with Edge is how it ‘feels’ more responsive and faster than Chrome not to mention how the spelling and grammar checking. The one thing I can observe is that I haven’t had any website compatibility issues with any of the websites I visit frequently. I wouldn’t be surprised if, after a medocre WWDC, that I end up looking at moving to Windows and Office 365 (or maybe Google Workspace).

Now, it may sound like I am heaping praise on Microsoft, but would I move to Office 365 instead of using Google Workspace? no and the reason is the integration just isn’t there and that is something Microsoft must face up to when they don’t control the underlying platform resulting in the apps always feeling as though they’re as integrated as what the native experience provides. Sure, you can use a third-party browser, but it doesn’t integrate into Google Pay, some applications ignore settings regarding the default browser that you’ve chosen and instead just load Chrome. On iOS it is particularly bad because for a while (not too sure whether this has changed recently) apps couldn’t upload in the background such as setting up OneDrive to upload your photo collection to the cloud only to find that when it goes into the background it stops uploading with the argument by Apple is that it saves on power (how do they explain why their own Photo app get around that issue – it doesn’t consume power when uploading?).