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Google's G Suite Cracks 2 Billion Users (axios.com) 28

Google's G Suite, which includes Gmail, Google Docs, Hangouts, Meet and other apps, quietly passed a major milestone at the end of last year: It now has more than 2 billion monthly active users, G Suite boss Javier Soltero told Axios Wednesday. From a report: Long seen as the upstart challenger to Microsoft Office, Google's productivity suite is now one of the two incumbents, facing fresh rivals of its own. "That's a staggering number ... These products have incredible reach. Changing the way people work is something we are uniquely positioned to do," he said.
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Google's G Suite Cracks 2 Billion Users

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  • That's nothing (Score:5, Interesting)

    by DontBeAMoran ( 4843879 ) on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:11AM (#59822130)

    I expect the number of users for Google's and Microsoft's online collaboration tools to have increased by an even greater amount because of the coronavirus pandemic.

    • by geekmux ( 1040042 ) on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:30AM (#59822212)

      I expect the number of users for Google's and Microsoft's online collaboration tools to have increased by an even greater amount because of the coronavirus pandemic.

      It would be rather funny to find a spike in online collaboration tools being caused by viral botnet activity...

    • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      I just wish we could finally sort out interoperability. Scripting for spreadsheets is still incompatible between every vendor. Google uses Javascript, but not the same Javascript that other web tools use. Microsoft uses VB Script. LibreOffice supports Javascript, their own BASIC and Python, but none of them are compatible with anything else.

      • 2B accounts just got cracked, and you want more interoperability?! Isn't getting cracked once at a time enough for you?!

    • Human malware at its finest

    • by khchung ( 462899 )

      Exactly. All local schools here required the use of Google classroom now, so practically all children between the age of 6-18 and their teachers are now their "users".

      Now projecting that to all the places where schools are closing, it would be strange if their number of users didn't shoot up like a rocket.

  • by Somervillain ( 4719341 ) on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:14AM (#59822144)
    Minor nitpick, but for my blood pressure, please don't use the verb "cracks" when talking about my user account? It's good news for Google that there are 2 billion G Suite users, but cracks is too close to exploit for me. :)
  • The point that is often overlooked is that for most businesses it is typically not a choice between one or the other (G Suite or Office 365), but having to use both. Each one has its strengths and weaknesses - it would be great if they interoperated better, rather than each side trying to recreate each other's ecosystem. The situation is slightly improved on Android, where the Office tools are forced to work with Google accounts and services, but the desktop lags quite behind on this.

  • Office 365 Does not work with NON AD ldap

    • by EvilSS ( 557649 )
      Office 365 is a Microsoft product, not a Google product.
    • ActiveDirectory isn't LDAP. AD merely uses LDAP as its communication protocol.

      So it makes sense that things that specify ActiveDirectory don't work with other services, even ones that use LDAP as a transport layer. Using LDAP for authorization is simple, but first youneed authentication. And you need to glue your authentication to your authorization in a secure way. This means you use both LDAP and Kerberos. But there are lots of small differences between implementations, interoperability has to be approach

  • Gmail is terrible.

    The rest is just kids toys.

    Where is access? Where is ODBC? Where is alerts?

    It's garbage.

    I get paid to use it, but holy shit, I own my own company and hell no, we don't use childrena toys.

    • ODBC? LOL

      You do that on your own. You use IMAP to pull the messages to your own server, and you can use ODBC to store them if you want. Same with Google Docs; you use their integration API to set up a script that puts your data where you want it.

      You don't need every service provider to hold your hand when you have narrow requirements, you simply have to be a big boy, girl, or other and learn how to use interoperability tools. If you need somebody to hold your hand, listen to them also about which technologi

  • Dropping numbers? (Score:4, Informative)

    by kackle ( 910159 ) on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:59AM (#59822364)
    I suspect the numbers will drop some come June when Gmail starts to kill off the ability [9to5google.com] for some IoT devices to use their free service.
  • Thanks Google for pushing your crap to DSI and managers that understand nothing to IT, office daily usages and decide to migrate MS Office to your totally inadequate solution.

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