Is Microsoft for real when it comes to Office 365 and the cloud?!?

<blockquote><a href="#558955"><em>In reply to paul-thurrott:</em></a><em> This is an industry by industry and organization by organization thing. I work in the legal profession. For most of my 39 years doing this work, law has been overwhelmingly Windows (when I started, we were still on IBM Mag Card typewriters and System 6 dedicated word processors). Sure, Macs have made inroads now that there is more platform agnostic cloud-based legal software and there is some parity between Office on Mac and Office on Windows, but the Mac is not a huge player in the legal market. </em></blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><blockquote><em>Part of the reason Macs have not done better in law is that many lawyers depend on MS Word add-in programs to generate tables of authority, do cite checking, legal-specific format and grammar checking, etc., that only run in Windows. They likely won't run in Windows on ARM, however, meaning that ARM-based Windows machines are not likely to sell to the legal market.</em></blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><blockquote><em>On Windows, I've had very few problems with OneDrive. I run it on my primary desktop PC (self built), my laptop, and on my iPad Pro and Samsung Galaxy S10e. I even run it successfully on my Lenovo Chromebook Duet tablet. </em></blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><blockquote>I also teach law practice management at a law school in Florida. Probably 80% plus of my law students use Macs, but I hear from my former students who tell me that after graduation, while they may keep their Mac for personal use, at the law firms where they work, it is nearly all Windows. </blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><blockquote>But getting back to Teams, I wanted my class to use software they might actually encounter in the real world instead of something limited to the academic setting like Black Board. I created a Team for the class back in January and as I became more familiar with it, we increased its use as the semester progressed. Then, when the pandemic hit and we had to go to distance learning in March after Spring Break, it was simple to do the class using Teams video meetings. My students report that they liked Teams better than Zoom or other solutions used by some of their other professors. We never had any performance issues with Teams, including adding guest speakers to join us by video. </blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><blockquote>The biggest issue wasn't the performance of Teams. It was substandard bandwidth many of the students had in their homes/apartments, which they often had to share with roommates who were also simultaneously required to participate in video classes. Also, the fact that so many of the students were using MacBooks or other thin and light laptops without Ethernet ports, meant they were limited to using Wi-Fi for the class sessions. We all know that can be unstable, especially in crowded dorm and apartment settings, and especially if they are using the weak Wi-Fi inherent in ISP provided equipment. I urged the students to buy USB C to Ethernet dongles and circulated Amazon, Staples, and Office Depot links for some reasonably priced ones. In the end, I think a few bought them. Others probably figured "why bother" with only a few weeks left in the semester, assuming (not unreasonably) that things would be back to normal (meaning in-person classes) by fall. </blockquote><p><br></p>