Almost every small business ends up on Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. Both are excellent. The mistake is choosing on a feature checklist instead of on how your team actually works.
Where Microsoft 365 fits
If your team lives in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, deals with clients who send complex Office documents, or needs the depth of desktop apps, Microsoft 365 is hard to beat. Its compliance and security tooling is also deeper, which matters in regulated sectors.
Where Google Workspace fits
If your team collaborates in real time, lives in the browser, and values simplicity over feature depth, Google Workspace is faster to run and harder to misconfigure. Shared drives and real-time co-editing are its native strengths.
The things that actually decide it
- Which file formats your clients and partners send you
- Whether you need heavy Excel or desktop Office
- Your appetite for administration and complexity
- Compliance and data-residency requirements
- What your team already knows and likes
Either way, set it up properly
Whichever you choose, the value is in the configuration: mail authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), multi-factor authentication, sensible sharing defaults, and a clean joiners/movers/leavers process. A well-run Google tenant beats a neglected Microsoft one, and vice versa.
We administer both, and we'll recommend the one that fits your business — not the one that's easiest to resell.
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