You don't need Microsoft Office when you use Google Workspace

Microsoft Office has ruled productivity suites since its inception in 1990. Business and educational institutions all adopted Microsoft Office and for excellent reasons; it was a superb productivity suite compared to its then competitors, and with its mass adoption is made sense to use file formats that everyone else used.

Opening and Editing Office files in Google Workspace

With everything, technology-based times change, and newer better products get released. With the domination of Microsoft Office until the late 2010s, Microsoft had stopped innovating, and Office rarely got any new features, it stagnated. At the same time, Google was working hard on Google Workspace, the first real competitor to Microsoft Office.

While Microsoft Office was and still is fantastic for working on your own, in your silo, Google Workspace is an office productivity suite dedicated to offering the best collaboration tools for business and education. And globally more than 6 million business have moved to Google Workspace.

Even more file formats can be accessed in Google Workspace

Of course, some businesses still use Microsoft Office - so the team at Google Workspace made it possible to open, edit and collaborate on Office documents inside Google Workspace, using Google Drive. Allowing businesses running Google Workspace to use files sent to them in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. It also allowed these businesses to use Microsoft Office files without needing to purchase, maintain and upgrade Microsoft Office.

The Google Workspace team have not stopped with just supporting Microsoft Office; Google Drive now supports well over 300 different popular file formats.

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