Office 365 Reviews

I use Office 365 daily, but my satisfaction compared with the older version is not very good.

We use Teams for communication, Outlook for email, and the full set from Microsoft Office.

AI with Office 365 is useful for programming, and sometimes for reporting and creating emails, which is easier.

It helps me with my remote or hybrid workforce collaboration, but I prefer the desktop version, not the web.

It's hard to say what features are most valuable. In comparison with the old version, Office 365 is bigger and needs more resources, making it slower than before, so I don't see many benefits.

The automatic updates are problematic because I come to work and find some things different than they were yesterday, which is not a very good idea.

The stability for Office 365 is not very good, as the application sometimes closes without any information; the old version was much more stable.

The scalability can be complicated because it depends on Microsoft's policy for licensing, and it's expandable, but very complicated.

The pricing for Office 365 is higher now because my previous calculation for the box version or standard version with installation and lifetime support was easier and cheaper, and when we use one version for more than three years, it compares unfavorably with Microsoft's license policy.

In general, Office 365 is good, but I feel that it is becoming more of a huge software with many functions that are preferred at this time; after a few years, nobody knows what this technology was.

I have been working with Office 365 for three years.

The setup process for Office 365 is easy because we have predefined mirrors of the installation system allowing us to complete installation at once, including the operating system, application, and Office 365. This is by our configuration, but normal installation is a problem for me because we use both Czech language version and English version, and I have preinstalled assistance for every language. It's huge and selects a lot of resources from the computer, which is not very good.

The stability for Office 365 is not very good, as the application sometimes closes without any information; the old version was much more stable.

The scalability can be complicated because it depends on Microsoft's policy for licensing, and it's expandable, but very complicated.

We don't use direct technical support from Microsoft because it was very complicated; the most useful solutions for us come from Google or other things, not directly from Microsoft.

Negative

We use the old system from Infor, the XPPS and Xpert.

I'm not using M3; it's an enterprise system for automotive mostly based on IBM iSeries 400 computers, not Windows system, and we have used it for more than 20 years. We were satisfied, but the systems become obsolete in the last years, so we are looking for new possibilities.

The setup process for Office 365 is easy because we have predefined mirrors of the installation system allowing us to complete installation at once, including the operating system, application, and Office 365. This is by our configuration, but normal installation is a problem for me because we use both Czech language version and English version, and I have preinstalled assistance for every language. It's huge and selects a lot of resources from the computer, which is not very good.

I am using AI technology with Office 365; this is a separate team that is growing and learning more and more about all technologies such as Microsoft Copilot, and it's improving every day.

It's integrated with my system because it's an old ERP system, so that's also the point where we are looking for new functionality.

The pricing for Office 365 is higher now because my previous calculation for the box version or standard version with installation and lifetime support was easier and cheaper, and when we use one version for more than three years, it compares unfavorably with Microsoft's license policy.

As Microsoft Office becomes the most used standard, it's necessary to use it even if maybe other solutions could be easier and cheaper for implementation.

I don't have any additional features I would like to see in Office right now.

For the current version of Office 365, I rate it 2.5 out of 5; it's not bad, but there are many points for improvement.

I am just a Microsoft user, not a partner.

It would be fine for my opinion about Office to be with my name as personal feedback without my company name or contact details, just my personal name.

Hybrid Cloud

Microsoft Azure

The features of Office 365 that have significantly enhanced my workflow productivity include Excel, which is a very good product that helps assist me with my work.

There are approximately 3,000 people using Office 365 in my organization.

As a user of Office 365, I find it to be a common Office suite that we can use for documentation, spreadsheets, and presentations to other customers.

The areas of Office 365 that have room for improvement include PowerPoint, which I think needs significant improvement or should be removed. I don't know much about OneNote, and I don't find it useful. As for Access, people use it, but it's not widely adopted. Teams is in its early stages and requires substantial improvements, though it's making progress. I particularly dislike PowerPoint, though I acknowledge others may have different opinions.

I have about 3 years of experience working with Office 365 specifically, but I've been using Office for approximately 20 years.

It is deployed both on cloud and on premises.

When rating the stability of Office 365, seven is probably reasonably good. I use Excel extensively, so sometimes it has issues because I overuse it, but based on that, it's around six or seven.

When rating the scalability of Office 365, I would need a definition of scalability when discussing an Office suite in this case.

I have never used technical support from Microsoft in 20-30 years.

Regarding their message board support, I think it's extremely poor. While I haven't contacted them directly, searching for solutions on the internet reveals that answers are very simple, minimal, and not very helpful.

Their actual direct contact support might be better, but I cannot verify this as I have never specifically contacted Microsoft.

Neutral

A long time ago, I was a volume seller, but now I'm just a user of Microsoft solutions.

Regarding the initial setup of Office 365, I can't fully evaluate it because I've been using Office for so many years that Office 365 didn't seem significantly different. I use many languages and sometimes need to download packages for each language, but I experienced absolutely no issues, making it a reasonably easy solution to install.

I did not face any challenges while integrating Office 365 with other tools.

I swapped the computer and the performance improved, but that has nothing to do with Office 365 itself.

When I purchased Office 365 myself, it was somewhat expensive. Recently it increased in price by approximately 20 percent, and I'm not sure if this increase is justified as I don't see any explicit features that are helpful.

There should be more options to not use PowerPoint or Access so that people who just consider using Word or Excel would have better options.

I might be using Horizon in the next couple of months, though I'm not sure. I have extensive experience with Office 365. If organizations need it, I would recommend it, as Excel is a very good program and Word is quite a good program.

I rate Office 365 a 6 out of 10.

On-premises

The bank gave us Office 365 to work with. I used Google for personal use, but in the bank, I exclusively used Office 365.

Office 365 has excellent facilities, it's familiar, and it's easy to comprehend when sending messages.

I recommend it for the facilities as it's familiar to users when they see it and makes it easy to find items and features that we can use.

The scalability of Office 365 is good.

I would rate Microsoft technical support as 3 or 4 out of 10. This rating is mainly because I didn't need much support since it works efficiently, though sometimes internet connectivity affects the experience.

I have approximately 4 years of experience with Office 365.

The setup process for Office 365 is easy.

For stability, I would rate it 10 out of 10.

The scalability of Office 365 is good.

I would rate Microsoft technical support as 3 or 4 out of 10. This rating is mainly because I didn't need much support since it works efficiently, though sometimes internet connectivity affects the experience.

Positive

The setup process for Office 365 is easy.

For stability, I would rate it 10 out of 10.

I would recommend Office 365 to others.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I rate Office 365 as 10.

Private Cloud

Microsoft Azure

I understand I'm working with or using other tools besides Huawei, such as Windows, Office 365, Zoom for communication, Linux, and similar applications.

I'm using Office 365 because it's free, so there are signals besides Huawei that I work with or have used before.

I'm using it, and it's wonderful. It's custom made for Huawei, a special version of Office 365. It's not fully open to 3 Cloud or 365 because at Huawei, we have some restricted tools within Office 365. We use them just for email, Word documents, etc. We are not able to download or use online templates or download anything from Cloud. All those features are restricted. We're using only what Huawei provided as tools.

The application is custom made for Huawei, a special version of Office 365. It's not fully open to 3 Cloud or 365 because at Huawei, we have some restricted tools within Office 365. We use them just for email, Word documents, etc. We are not able to download or use online templates or download anything from Cloud. All those features are restricted. We're using only what Huawei provided as tools.

It has been fine regarding stability-wise issues, technical errors, and downtimes, but with Microsoft there are sometimes bugs, freezing, re-downloads, or redos. They have to reload the restrictive features and license. There was an issue from my PC itself, but the good thing is they auto-recover and auto-save, so when corruption happens, we can retrieve the latest version templates from Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

Sometimes I use templates from different versions through copy-paste. When I want to save, I get prompts about text or fonts. I need to click again and apply something to be able to save the file. When I have different styles, it is very hard to track this. To avoid checking these optics every time I want to save the file, sometimes reason pop-ups appear when saving files, indicating projects have some strange text.

The value received is limited because I still rely on many third parties to do my work. It's not enough just to have Office 365, as I'm still dependent on some external tools.

Plugins and macros could be improved, such as Mouse broadcast and automation in Excel or SharePoint workflows.

More tools are needed, especially AI integrated features. This could be better in the Office 365 sixteen version. I'm using version eleven, but it still requires more enhancements, particularly in AI capabilities.

The download speed and safety need enhancement. At Huawei, we have WPS which is lighter, much better, and can adopt PDF files. As I don't have PDF capability in Office 365, I still need Microsoft separately. If Office 365 also includes PDF file capabilities, that would be perfect. WPS is much better as it has PDF functionality, scissors tool, and is more reliable.

I have never faced stability-wise issues, technical errors, or downtimes, but with Microsoft, there are sometimes bugs, freezing, re-downloads, or redos. They have to reload the restrictive features and license. There was an issue from my PC itself, but the good thing is they auto-recover and auto-save, so when corruption happens, we can retrieve the latest version templates from Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

Sometimes I use templates from different versions through copy-paste. When I want to save, I get prompts about text or fonts. I need to click again and apply something to be able to save the file. When I have different styles, it is very hard to track this.

It is very common to have many different company topics from different slides. When you combine materials, you have different formats, and when you want to save, you get a prompt about unknown text or unknown fonts of file formatting. Every time you have to click save, there are pop-up boxes requiring confirmation, which can be annoying.

I never used that due to restrictions. I don't raise tickets to Microsoft if I have issues or questions.

I have been using it for a long time, from version eight to nine. I can debug issues myself because I know them, but I have to run through all slides and create fresh new templates or do manual work. I have workaround solutions, but when I have complex slides and multiple materials to combine, I get prompts when saving that require additional steps.

The overall rating for Office 365 is 7 out of 10.

Other

I mostly work with AWS. My team is working on bespoke applications and we're deploying it on AWS Kubernetes, mostly with EKS services. That's my scope at this time.

I have been working with Office 365 for three years. I mainly use Office 365 for collaboration and communication, mostly using SharePoint, MS Teams, and email.

I'm using Office 365 for collaboration and communication. Microsoft Teams is the most useful feature of Office 365 for me.

Microsoft Teams is the most useful feature of Office 365 for me. Since we are using a cloud base, for stability, I can rate it 8, because there are some performance issues and outages I've encountered. From my experience, in my environment, we are using mostly the Microsoft Office suite, MS Word, PowerPoint, and everything.

I think there's more advantage in using Office 365 compared to Google or AWS collaboration tools if you are using Microsoft in your productivity tools, due to the seamless integration. Office 365 does support my remote and hybrid workforce collaboration needs.

Based on my experience as a user, I think we are going into full integration with the Copilot, so hopefully this will improve functionality, but I haven't used it yet. I'm expecting more from the full integration with the Copilot for more automation.

In the future, it would be great to see full integration with the Copilot.

I have been working with Office 365 for three years.

From my user point of view, the initial setup and deployment process for Office 365 is seamless to the users.

Since we are using a cloud base, for stability, I can rate it 8, because there are some performance issues and outages I've encountered.

I think it's scalable, as long as you pay.

I'm not raising support, as it will be handled by another team, not on the user side.

Positive

I currently am no longer working with SAP in the past two years, as I moved to another area already, which was about three years ago.

From my user point of view, the initial setup and deployment process for Office 365 is seamless to the users.

I'm not raising support, as it will be handled by another team, not on the user side.

I think Office 365 is more beneficial for medium to enterprise company sizes, while small companies may not find it as beneficial.

For pricing, I think it's fairly priced, I would rate it 8.

I think there's more advantage in using Office 365 compared to Google or AWS collaboration tools if you are using Microsoft in your productivity tools, due to the seamless integration.

I don't want to publish my review on the PeerSpot platform in public, as much as possible. I'm okay with providing only my feedback without any personal details.

For my final points for Office 365, I would rate it an 8.

Public Cloud

Microsoft Azure

My cybersecurity strategy primarily involves using CrowdStrike Falcon as an EDR solution, and currently, we are using it as an EDR. We are in discussion with the CrowdStrike team about having a managed SOC integrated as well.

I am using CrowdStrike Falcon in the online industry.

The most effective feature I find for threat detection is the 24/7 managed monitoring, which is a next-gen antivirus and next-gen Endpoint Detection and Response. In Endpoint Detection and Response, the best part is 24/7, 365 continuous monitoring to the endpoint for identifying any suspicious activity.

It is a next-gen AV which does AI-based behavioral analysis to detect and take action on malware, ransomware, and other threats.

The automated response capabilities in CrowdStrike Falcon perform analysis based on the behavior of the activity. If it finds objectionable content or breaking of sitemaps, it uses an untraditional approach to block it. When suspicious activity occurs, such as detecting a file with a document extension that is self-replicating, the detection happens automatically. In cases of zero-day threats, such files are automatically put in sandbox for extraction and analysis to identify why it is classified as malware.

Falcon's integration capabilities with other tools enhance my security posture because it has a very lightweight agent, and having a unified console gives us complete visibility, including endpoints, servers, containers, and cloud workloads.

To improve CrowdStrike Falcon for the next release, I recommend that they should have a model where it works as an agentless solution. In terms of everything which agent pushes to the server or to the single console, if it could also have a feature where you can have other ports, which is SNMP or your network devices or OT devices, which you can specifically monitor, that would be great.

I have been working with CrowdStrike Falcon for more than 2 years now.

Regarding the setup, in my experience and our team's experience, it is fairly easy to install.

I would rate the setup an eight because we have a heterogeneous environment. For Windows, it is very straightforward and easy. For Linux, you need to automate it. If you have a bulk force, then you have to use some CMF or similar solution, which makes it a bit more complex, but overall it is fairly easy.

During these 2 years with CrowdStrike Falcon, I faced challenges, as everybody knows about the CrowdStrike outage. That was one significant issue, as it brought many Windows-related services to a halt due to one bad configuration push from CrowdStrike tracks.

Regarding stability, except for the incidents mentioned, I don't see any issues.

For scalability, it is easy to scale this solution for my company needs, and I would rate it a nine.

More than 7,000 users are working with CrowdStrike Falcon in my company.

Currently, we are 100% covered with CrowdStrike Falcon, but as the user base increases, we will certainly increase the license.

I have contacted CrowdStrike for support regarding the same incident, and my experience was pretty bad. There were people not knowing what was happening, how to mitigate it, or what to do. We were in a bad situation. After a couple of hours, their communication started flowing better, and things started improving.

My impression of the technical support of CrowdStrike, just for that particular instance, is less than four.

I have evaluated other options before working with CrowdStrike, including Carbon Black and SentinelOne.

When comparing CrowdStrike and SentinelOne, I don't see many advantages, but because of one particular problem, we had to give away SentinelOne. Otherwise, all three products are quite comparable.

Overall, it is a user-friendly tool.

CrowdStrike Falcon is definitely an expensive solution.

Since implementing CrowdStrike Falcon, I would say if it is protecting my environment, that fulfills my expectation. So far, I am happy.

For those who would to use CrowdStrike Falcon, I recommend that they need to negotiate hard on commercials because it is not an easy or affordable solution. From a commercial standpoint, they should negotiate hard. Technically, it is not a very difficult tool.

If we had not experienced that outage, I probably would have rated it ten. That incident gave it a very bad name because the support was inadequate. Many people might have decided to move out of CrowdStrike because of that incident.

My total rating for CrowdStrike Falcon is eight.

Some use cases for Office 365 include using the Office applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as OneDrive, Teams, OneNote, SharePoint, and Exchange Online. We have moved all our file server data to SharePoint and we've been quite successful at that.

What's valuable about Office 365 is that the file formats have become a standard, such as .doc files and .docx files for Word. In Excel, you can do a lot of data analysis and manage spreadsheets, which is especially useful for finance people. With PowerPoint, we can create very visual and easy presentations, and now with Copilot, it's even easier to generate a presentation format that you can adjust to your needs.

The integrations of Teams and SharePoint have impacted our project management positively because we work a lot with external clients who need access to information in our environment. Before, using file servers to give external access was cumbersome, and with SharePoint, creating a sharing link with an expiration date makes sharing information easier and more controlled. Also, SharePoint allows us to create websites for our intranet, while Teams enables groups to share information, chat, and create meetings, and we have even moved all our telephony system to Teams, which is working very well.

I'm suggesting that Microsoft could improve the product, particularly in managing Office 365, which is not cumbersome but requires knowledge of several different portals. You need to become an expert on each product to administer everything properly, as each portal has a different format that is not unified.

I have several years of experience with Office 365, almost since it existed. I think it started approximately ten years ago or eight years ago, and in the company I'm working for, we've used it extensively. I've been with the company for nine years now.

I would rate customer service and technical support with Microsoft a seven. The support from our partner SoftwareONE is very good as they get back to me quickly and escalate to Microsoft when needed. The issue arises when I need to ask Microsoft directly for support, and I have had delays, such as with a SharePoint issue that took two weeks to resolve, and another instance where the ticket was mishandled and sent to the wrong queue, which delayed the response even further.

Neutral

By the time I arrived at the company, everything was already Microsoft, and I have worked with Microsoft products for most of my professional life. I have experience with other products, but that was back in the '90s. I used Microsoft Mail, Lotus Notes, and Novell products back then, and I'm certified with Microsoft products since the '90s, meaning that about 80% or 85% of my experience is with Microsoft products in general.

The initial setup for Office 365 was quite straightforward because we already had Word, Excel, and PowerPoint installed, and it was just a matter of flicking a switch. However, setting up SharePoint required tweaking a lot of security because it's designed for sharing information, which can be quite open and not secure by itself. So I designed a whole security system around it, and Teams' most complicated task was the telephony setup, which we got help with from consulting.

The pricing for Office 365 is not cheap, but it's also not terribly expensive. It depends on the size of the company, and I think it's competitive and appropriate. The advantage of Microsoft is the vast amount of products that integrate seamlessly, which offers better value than competitors such as Google.

I would absolutely recommend Office 365 mainly for its standardization, as I believe the majority of companies around the world use Office. I don't have specific statistics about that, but I can see it from my experience when contacting other companies that they typically use similar products, with some exceptions using Google Suite. I rate Office 365 a nine out of ten.

Public Cloud

Microsoft Azure

Our current use cases for Office 365 include using it as our email handler as well as for MDM, and we also have offline office which is very important for doing our regular work such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and all. We get help from the E5 plan and we are using MDM for more than 50 people in our team. This is because there was an incident where a data breach occurred in our organization. After that, we decided we should implement the MDM solution to protect personally owned devices. After implementing MDM, we are now secure enough to prevent leakage of our organization data.

The most valuable feature or capability of Office 365 that I found is the legal hold feature, which is excellent for customers to maintain regulatory compliance. Deleting data is a common occurrence; people can delete their data from their device, and it will be moved to the recycle bin for a certain period of time. After the email is deleted, we found that if legal hold is enabled for a particular user, Microsoft offers unlimited archival, meaning any email that comes to that email ID will be stored, and we can easily use the E-Discovery feature to check the emails, their history, and export them in a PST file, which is very beneficial for customers during audits.

Overall, Office 365 brings organization efficiency, as these tools are very helpful for every organization to maintain their records, organization data, compliance, and collaborations. Everything that is basically required by an organization is already taken care of in the Office 365 products.

The areas of Office 365 that need improvement include the organization sharing option in Teams, which we found to be limited. If the organization does not enable it, we cannot get the IM details in Teams. If Microsoft can make it more reliable similar to social media - for example, if I am dealing with customers and I already had a meeting with them in Teams previously, the customer account should be visible to me along with their current status, such as busy, away, or available.

It would be easier for us to communicate with our customers or colleagues because it works within the organization. I am specifically referring to cross-functional connectivity for other organizations that we work with.

We have been using Office 365 for almost two and a half years.

The stability of this solution is very high, and I would rate it a full 10. I have been using it for the last three years and have not faced any issues during this time, leading to 100% uptime.

I would rate the scalability of this solution as nine out of ten.

I rate the technical support for Office 365 at about four to five out of 10 maximum. The support center is in China, and making them understand our issue is a hectic challenge. Every time we log a ticket, a new agent comes, and we have to describe the problem again. It is common that when the shift changes, the new staff does not have the case history, and we have to start explaining again. Customers expect quick solutions rather than reading KB articles.

With tools such as ChatGPT allowing us to find the same KB within seconds, we question why we spend so much time waiting for responses from Microsoft support. I suggest improving regional support for India, making it easier for customers to connect. Additionally, when we log cases, the support should check known issues quickly and engage with us directly when addressing unknown issues rather than just sending us basic help articles.

Positive

The initial setup of Office 365 is easy. Though I don't have hands-on experience, I can share our thoughts. During implementation, it took very little time and was very easy. We did not face any issues. We found that email delivery, which was being held, got delivered after three or six hours. I would give it at least eight out of 10.

Regarding similar service providers available in the market, we used Zoho previously, and we found it to be a wonderful product. However, we are more comfortable with Microsoft's UI, which influenced our choice to move to Microsoft instead of using Zoho.

The feature of Office 365 that has proven most beneficial for collaboration in my team is definitely Microsoft Teams. It is a commonly used platform throughout the organization, serving all our collaboration and instant messaging needs.

For the maintenance of Office 365, we only need one person.

Regarding pricing, I would give Office 365 an eight. It is pretty expensive.

The licensing is complicated because when we ask for pricing, the Microsoft team presents 10 to 15 different plans with almost the same features but different prices. It is difficult for customers to differentiate, especially since we are dealing with specific use cases. We need the application for specific purposes, and Microsoft has 20 options. Customers generally tend to choose the least costly option, resulting in missing out on crucial features and needing to upgrade through the pricing tiers again. If Microsoft can simplify the licensing, it would be easier for customers to opt for their services.

Overall, I rate Office 365 eight out of 10.

Public Cloud

Microsoft Azure