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trollbridge • last Tuesday at 3:34 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Kind of hard to understand what it does that Google Workspace + Zoom (or any other provider) doesn't?

I'm seeing a very common pattern of Google Workspace + Google Meet, Zoom seats for people who need to remotely control computers, and then Slack or ones of its competitors for chat.

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traceroute66 • last Tuesday at 9:03 AM

Because ...

     - Its one package
     - All the non-tech users already know Microsoft
     - Most IT techies will be VERY familiar with Microsoft
     - If you are migrating from on-Prem then it is highly likely you've got Exchange on-prem.
Add on top of that, you can (depending on package) get Active Directory ("Entra") and MDM ("Intune"). So you get credential management and the ability to push out Group Policies to your user's machines.

Look, I'm the last person to defend Microsoft. But if you are a Microsoft shop then it does, sadly, make a lot of sense to take a Microsoft sub.

wyre • last Tuesday at 5:22 AM

Google + Zoom + Slack is 3 separate accounts. Corporate only wants 1 account.

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