Office 365 Reviews

I use Office 365 primarily for emails. Additionally, I work with Windows and Office Suite, both local and online.

Office 365 has great possibilities for integration, such as single sign-on and the Azure part of it. From a security perspective, there are valuable features such as always-on VPN and Endpoint protection. Defender is included for free, and there are options to upgrade Windows with certain plans, like E3 and E5.

There are many issues with Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange, making it difficult to identify positive aspects. Exchange has issues such as malfunctioning in specific regions and some features not working for certain users. There are also problems with Windows updates occasionally being faulty. Although it's possible to work around mailbox limitations with an archive or shared mailbox, larger mailboxes would be preferable.

I have been working with Office 365 for more than ten years.

Windows has issues with faulty updates, affecting stability. There are often availability issues with Office products.

Certain Office plans are limited based on the number of users. For instance, a plan that suited my needs could not be used because I have more than one thousand or two thousand users.

I was not happy with the technical support, especially when my issue with DMARC was routed to the Indian support team, who could not resolve it after two and a half months. I requested it to be routed to German support, but it was not. I had happier experiences with the German support previously.

Neutral

I mentioned potential pricing and tax changes due to political actions like Donald Trump's ideas impacting the EU, which may result in price changes.

Other than Office 365, I have worked with Linux. I have not worked directly with Google but have tried the free version of their similar product.

It's essential to consider the user's knowledge when recommending an Office 365 plan. For example, recommending an E5 license to someone without administrative knowledge doesn't make sense. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate Office 365 as a seven.

We use Office 365 for documents, like Microsoft Word, PowerPoint Excel, and Teams.

Microsoft Teams helped us to collaborate more. We use the call feature to communicate with colleagues, and the document sharing feature is a secure way of sharing through the cloud.

We use it more for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. With the addition of Teams, which is an added feature that I like. 

In terms of the most valuable feature, I use Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams, but Teams is new for me.

Performance-wise, Office 365 needs a lot of bandwidth. The problem is, the solution requires very high bandwidth and internet usage. Meaning, the desktop application consumes a lot of internet data. Sometimes, when the connection is slow, it won't work and it won't load. This is an area for improvement for Office 365.

In the next release, I would like for Office 365 to be more of a finished product. It should have the ability to place calls and do system messaging. Those would be good improvements.

I would also like for the license to include a video cloning feature.

I have been using Office 365 for five years. 

I never contacted Office 365 support because we have our IT support person who resolves any issue we face.

The initial setup for Office 365 was straightforward.

I deployed Office 365 in my machine. The deployment was really straightforward and took just half an hour.

Before choosing Office 365, we didn't evaluate other options, because we've been using Microsoft Office products over the last decade. Microsoft Office is the preferred choice here in my country.

We purchased the Office 365 license for 40 users. The solution is deployed in a single location. We are only 55 people in the office.

My advice to others looking into using Office 365 is to go for it because it's an all-in-one solution that they can use for collaboration and other things.

My rating for Office 365 is eight out of ten. I would give it a ten if the bandwidth issue was solved because currently it uses up a lot of bandwidth, plus if they added more features to it.

Public Cloud

I use Office 365 because it is easy to use, and I can do many tasks with it.

Office 365 is scalable. It is easy to integrate with APIs, which is very beneficial for the operations we conduct.

I cannot tell anything specific that needs improvement in Office 365.

I have worked with Office 365 for twenty years.

The deployment of Office 365 was easy and took only a few hours.

I would rate the stability of Office 365 as eight out of ten. Sometimes it is slow and needs restarting.

I find Office 365 to be highly scalable. I would rate its scalability nine out of ten.

Microsoft's technical support is very good. I would rate it as ten out of ten. Their support is available anytime we need it.

Positive

The initial setup of Office 365 was easy.

The deployment of Office 365 was done by an integrator.

I would recommend Office 365 to other people. The solution overall, I would rate it nine out of ten.

Other

We are using Office 365 for collaboration, their mail services for communication, and the Office 365 suite for fulfilling all client requirements.

The effective collaboration within our management through Teams is beneficial. Even though email is standard, Teams has significantly helped with collaboration. The tools such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel assist in documentation and presentations. Office 365 improves productivity and collaboration.

PowerPoint could have more features to assist users in design. AI features within Word and Excel could be improved as well. Enhancements to AI-based summarization in Teams would be beneficial.

We have been dealing with Office 365 for a long time.

Office 365 is stable. We do not have any issues.

Office 365 is scalable. We started with fewer numbers and have scaled up as needed.

Our Technology Services team coordinates with Microsoft for ticket resolutions. Personally, I haven't dealt with tech support.

Neutral

We see value for money in improving productivity and collaboration.

I am not part of the cost management. The cost is handled by the admin team, and I do not have insights into it.

I would rate my overall experience with Office 365 as 8 out of 10. I would recommend Office 365 for its capabilities in handling collaboration, secure document sharing, and using standard tools like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel for documentation and presentations.

Public Cloud

Microsoft Azure

I utilize the product in multiple ways. I am using SharePoint, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Office 365 is reliable and enhances productivity by allowing my team to use the same documents with multiple versions. The Outlook calendar simplifies meetings, and Teams improves communication. The uniqueness of working on the same file together is valuable as it prevents missing any information, and encryption and multi-factor authentication are crucial for security.

The language feature in Copilot for Arabic specifically needs more machine learning enhancement, and the tables in Microsoft Word need to be more flexible, similar to those in Microsoft Excel.

I have been using Office 365 for about two to three years.

The stability is very high.

Office 365 is very scalable.

From one to ten, I rate Microsoft technical support as an eight.

Positive

The initial setup went very smoothly and very fast.

As we are an educational organization, we think we have a very big discount, but I do not know the price.

During the conversation, Google is mentioned as a competitor.

I rate Office 365 as a ten for teamwork and a nine for overall work. I suggest providing advice to someone from Mars if they decide to use Office 365. I rate the overall solution as a nine out of ten.

Hybrid Cloud

Other

I use Office 365 for a variety of things including sending emails to customers and colleagues, creating PowerPoint presentations, using Excel, and using Access. 

The most valuable feature is the integration, where all of the modules are talking to each other.

I like that it is cloud-based, wherefrom any computer I can access my documents and continue working. Even if my computer is down or something has happened to it, I can use another computer for work.

I would like to see the macro functionality in Excel made simpler. 

Excel should be made more intelligent in terms of being able to figure out data types. For example, it should understand that if I have 16,000 records, it should know the datatype of each of the columns. There might be numbers, dates, and other types of data, and it should be able to recognize these based on context. If this were the case then it would make things easier for me.

I would like to see Azure artificial intelligence available in Office 365 so that it is available to everyone.

I have been using Office 365 for the past three years.

The stability is great. I have never faced any such issues. If I load too much into PowerPoint then it will slow down a little bit, but nothing like the old desktop version. When I was using the desktop version of Office, it would hang. The cloud version is far more stable.

Office 365 is scalable, although collaboration has to happen through SharePoint. I would say that it can scale to large, global enterprises very easily.

I have never spoken to technical support for Microsoft Office. I have never had a problem that needed it.

The initial setup is easy because it's online. You pay for it and you get it, and that's it.

I think that we pay $9.99 USD per user, monthly. There are yearly packages available.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

I use Office 365 for communication, specifically for sending emails. I also use SharePoint for official documents, internal communication, and a combination of private and public SharePoint for Teams use. Additionally, I use OneDrive.

I primarily use Office 365 for email and SharePoint. The email capabilities are very handy to use, with no hidden options, allowing me to use them efficiently at any moment. Since transitioning from a simple, normal Outlook to Office 365, there has been an increase in productivity due to the larger amount of space available to handle emails without needing to delete older ones.

From my side, I don't see any improvement needed in Office 365. However, there should be more integration of Copilot.

I have been using Office 365 for more than three years continuously.

Before, we were using just a simple, normal Outlook. The switch to Office 365 has increased our productivity, primarily due to the larger amount of space available for emails.

Everything is going well. On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Office 365 a ten. I would rate the overall product a ten.

Office 365 is mainly used for communication in meetings and utilizing collaborative tools within my organization.

Office 365 is a good tool for daily tasks and collaborative activities. We mainly use Microsoft SharePoint, which integrates with other tools to facilitate collaboration such as file sharing among colleagues. Additionally, we use Teams and the email solutions provided within the Office 365 environment. The tool enhances productivity if the team is collaborative, helping us speed up work.

There should be RAM optimization related to Teams and desktop applications since they are very RAM hungry. Performance optimization should be prioritized to improve efficiency. Additionally, cost optimization should be considered due to the recent price hikes.

I have been working with Office 365 from 2014 to 2023.

I haven't faced any challenges with the stability of Office 365. I would rate its stability a nine out of ten.

Office 365 is good in terms of scalability. I would rate it between eight and nine.

For customer support, I rate it nine out of ten. I have no complaints about the support.

Positive

Setting up Office 365 is very easy. I would rate it nine out of ten for ease of setup. The deployment process depends on the internet connection.

The cost of Office 365 has become a bit costlier in the last few years. We manage expenses based on user requirements, but cost optimization should be considered.

Office 365 is user-friendly, especially when working with Windows as it collaborates well with tools. I would highly recommend Office 365 to everyone. I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.

Other