Review: Office 365 fails at collaboration

For several years, Microsoft has been promising a compelling vision in Office 365: a common platform of productivity and collaboration tools that all departments could use, with the extra security assurance of integrating policies and access into Active Directory. Over time, Microsoft delivered a compelling road map for how all the pieces would work not only in Windows but in other operating systems like OS X, iOS, and Android.

Document collaboration: Wait a bit longer for OneDrive for Business

Shared calendars: Outlook Groups could work, if only it ran on the Mac (and mobile)

Online meetings: Skype for Business/Lync is confusing and slow

Messaging: None of Microsoft's three chat tools work well

Sadly, Microsoft doesn't yet offer a viable collaboration platform

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