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History tells us that 85% of these people will move to Windows 11 despite what they say.
There is a real opportunity here for companies though.
Move employees to Office 365 online today ( see how many truly need the desktop apps )
Start moving early adopters to Linux ( still using Office 365 online )
Work to identify and replace any other software that is Windows only
When Windows 10 goes end-of-support, move everybody else to Linux
The few that really need Excel desktop could probably run it in a VM or via a virtual desktop ( thin client ).
You could probably stop there. Honestly, I doubt it would even bother Microsoft that much. Office and Azure is the business now.
From there, you could try to advance further if you want.
Move early adopters off Office 365
Drop Office 365
Honestly though, for many companies, you could almost get Office 365 for free just be combining it with your Azure spend and getting a discount.
If its just one app it could just ran by something like kasm and remotely controlled by the end users.
Companies that use Windows and Azure are locked into it by their use of things like AD, Intune, Exchange, OneCloud, SharePoint, Hello etc., on the infrastructure and ops administrative side, not necessarily by Office365. It's almost impossible to make a clean break from all that for any company past a certain size.
The interesting rub this time is the hardware. There's tons of still powerful and useful CPU's in use today that don't support Windows 11's TPM 2.0, so I wonder if that will push a few more people to Linux than when Windows 7 was EOL.
Office365 is awful. Use Gsuite if anything.
Brownie points if you use Nextcloud
Google workspace has a fraction of the functionality. At a base level they're relatively comparable. But once you go into more advanced functionality and security, 365 is a landslide better.
Office365 is slow and broken. I don't really know what your talking about
Claims without facts, got it. UI can be slow, sure. Mostly admin side. Outlook, excel, word, etc all work fine.
I can only speak from experience. It is probably subjective.
In terms of the basic office utilities like text editor, spreadsheets and so on, Google is a good contender. But Google Workspace isn't even close to the functionality IT admins have with Microsoft Defender, Intune, Entra, Purview, and so on.
There's a lot more going on at the administration side than just the user's experience, that could make it less ideal to move to Linux.
I'm saying this as someone who hates both Microsoft and Google.