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Microsoft 365

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4.5
2026
Market Presence: Social Software in the Workplace, Document Management

Overview

Review Summary
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Users appreciate Microsoft 365 for its seamless integration between apps, strong service and support, and user-frien ...

Product Information on Microsoft 365

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Microsoft 365?

Microsoft 365 is a software suite that provides a range of productivity and collaboration tools, including word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, email, calendaring, and cloud storage. The software integrates applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneDrive, enabling users to create, edit, and share documents across devices. It supports real-time collaboration, communication, and file management for individuals and teams. Microsoft 365 offers security features, device management capabilities, and compliance tools to address business requirements and protect organizational data. The software is designed to facilitate workplace efficiency and streamline workflows by centralizing essential business applications.

Microsoft 365 Pricing

Microsoft 365 is a software suite offered under a subscription-based pricing model with multiple tiers available for individuals, businesses, and educational institutions. Pricing varies according to the selected plan and features, with options for monthly or annual billing. Each plan includes different levels of access to applications and cloud services, and user licenses are generally charged per user per month or per year.

Overall experience with Microsoft 365

Engineer
50M - 250M USD, Construction
FAVORABLE

“Real-Time Teamwork Enabled by Microsoft M365 but Document Search Capabilities Lacking”

4.0
Mar 26, 2026
We use Microsoft 365 across a broad range of use cases throughout our organization, including email, collaboration, and document management. In particular, SharePoint plays a central role in our document management landscape. Overall, our experience with Microsoft 365 has been very positive. The platform offers a comprehensive and well integrated environment that supports daily business operations efficiently. Its close integration across services such as Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint helps create a connected digital workplace and enables users to collaborate more effectively across departments and locations.
Manager
<50M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Integration and online access make it easier to work across different connected devices.”

3.0
Apr 7, 2026
I use many of the tools in 365 in general. The fact that connections can be online and everything is connected makes daily life much easier, especially when accessing the system from multiple devices.
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Gartner Peer Insights recognizes vendors who meet or exceed both the market average Overall Experience and the market average User Interest and Adoption score through a Customers’ Choice distinction.
2026
For Market:
Unified Communications as a Service

About Company

Company Description

Updated 11th August 2023

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Updated 25th March 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
https://microsoft.com

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What Your Peers Are Saying About Microsoft 365

Director of Architecture
I am looking for some suggestions on Project Management Solutions. This solution should provide things like: - Support both Waterfall and Agile methodologies - Automation workflows - Task Breakdowns - Integrates with Microsoft 365 technology stack.   We are a $10B Financial Institution currently using SmartSheet looking to evaluate a newer and more scalable solution.
Director of Operations
Azure DevOps has decent connectivity with Microsoft365.  While it's not designed for waterfall, there's nothing that prevents you from using it that way.  There's a plethora of plugins and customizations that may help you do what you want.  I agree with Pranay below, there may not be one single provider that can check all the boxes.
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Data Manager
What is the roadmap and future development plans of Copilot for Microsoft 365 and the alternative AI tools?
Information Security Analyst
We have been quite aware over three years regarding the benefit of AI tools and services.  The city started doing Chatbot POC's in 2022 and since then deployed 2 Chatbots (our external Denver website) and (internal city TS Support). Both of those solutions are SaaS. We are allowing Github for CoPilot for our city TS developers/contractors.  CoPilot for Microsoft Office 365 is under review considering the investment for licenses.   We also did a citywide inventory of systems that already have or will soon have AI features.  We also utilize the AWS Platform.
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Microsoft 365 Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(11239 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
44%
4 Star
47%
3 Star
7%
2 Star
1%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.4

Service & Support

4.3

Product Capabilities

4.5

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  • Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Construction
    Review Source

    Real-Time Teamwork Enabled by Microsoft M365 but Document Search Capabilities Lacking

    4.0
    Mar 26, 2026
    We use Microsoft 365 across a broad range of use cases throughout our organization, including email, collaboration, and document management. In particular, SharePoint plays a central role in our document management landscape. Overall, our experience with Microsoft 365 has been very positive. The platform offers a comprehensive and well integrated environment that supports daily business operations efficiently. Its close integration across services such as Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint helps create a connected digital workplace and enables users to collaborate more effectively across departments and locations.
  • Associate Director Of Special Projects
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Microsoft 365 Excels at Offline Sync but Shows Gaps in AI Integration and UI/UX

    4.0
    Mar 25, 2026
    Microsoft 365 has promising functionality with its smooth online-offline sync with its associated apps and potential with AI integration, though there are also ongoing issues with UI/UX inconsistencies that ideally can be resolved soon.
  • Software Developer
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Microsoft 365 Offers Unified Tools but Separate Licenses and Minor Lags Noted

    4.0
    Apr 23, 2026
    I have worked with Microsoft 365 in two ways, one as an end user and also as an administrator. On an overall, I will describe my experience with its communication and collaboration features. From a user's perspective, I use Microsoft Teams for my day to day communication and it helps me a lot in my work. Whether it's chatting, work update sharing or meetings (audio/video calls). It is easy to schedule meetings and also that I can join them from my mobile is one of the features worth mentioning because when I am away from my desk. It is very helpful to not miss any of the updates. Also the feature I find most helpful is that I can collaborate on documents while being on a call, which saves a lot of time and reduces time to switch between different apps. Now, as an Admin also My experience with Microsoft 365 gives me centralized control through the admin center. I have used it to manage licenses of a user and integrations with the different identity providers. This helps in making things from a unified platform which reduces me switching between tools and that reduces time and improves my efficiency in my workplace. For these things I can say, It as an unified communication platform has been positive.
  • Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    Microsoft 365 Integration Streamlines Collaboration But Can Cause User Confusion

    4.0
    Apr 13, 2026
    We've been using Microsoft 365 across the organization for a few years now, and overall it's been a dependable platform. It covers pretty much everything we need, from email, file storage, collaboration, and the standard office apps, so we're mot constantly switching between different tools. Once it's up and running, it generally just works, which is honestly what you want from something this central to daily operations.
  • SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
    50M-1B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    MS Teams - great application with something to note

    5.0
    Dec 10, 2025
    It's a very good communication tool for everyday use. It is better than the previous tool. The voice and video call quality are good. Easy to use.
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User Sentiment About Microsoft 365
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Microsoft 365 Likes & Dislikes

Like

What we value most about Microsoft 365 for document management is its strong integration within the Microsoft ecosystem. Microsoft offers a true all in one platform, and the seamless connection between SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and Outlook is a major advantage for us. We make particularly heavy use of the Teams integration. It allows users to collaborate on documents in real time, share files quickly, and avoid sending multiple document copies by email. This significantly improves collaboration, version control, and overall efficiency. From an end user perspective, the familiar interface and the tight connection between the individual services make adoption easier and daily usage more productive.

Like

1 - Easy access across multiple devices 2 - Interconnected systems 3 - Online access

Automated Translation from Portuguese
Like

Three strengths we have noticed when using Microsoft 365 are: 1. It seamlessly syncs with its associated apps even when the working device is offline, making it easy to take work on-the-go or in the midst of internet disruptions while still being able to save progress. 2. The fact that Microsoft 365 continues to use Microsoft apps rather than directing you to other software means you are still able to access their powerful features, not lose out on any functionality, and not have to worry about compatibility issues regarding file formats. 3. Setting up permissions for individual documents or folders, along with other security features, is an easy and consistent process. As a result, we have had no challenges in this area beyond the occasional user error.

Dislike

The main drawback for us is the search experience, especially when users try to find documents directly in Teams or SharePoint. In practice, searching by document name is not always as intuitive, precise, or efficient as we would expect. This can make document retrieval unnecessarily time consuming and frustrating, particularly in larger file structures with many folders, libraries, and legacy storage concepts. While the platform offers many strong collaboration features, the usability of search could be improved further to support faster access to information.

Dislike

The fact that the online versions don't have the same functionality as the apps, the lack of greater dissemination of new features/updates, and the overall impression are somewhat confusing.

Automated Translation from Portuguese
Dislike

Three areas of improvement we have encountered with Microsoft 365 are: 1. While there is AI functionality, it feels more like a glorified search function at the moment. Its ability to perform special functions within the apps compatible with Microsoft 365 feels limited. 2. Any updates in features or UI in Microsoft-affiliated apps, for better or worse, are also forced into Microsoft 365, which has unpredictable results for the user experience and can disrupt the working experience as they are forced to navigate unexpected changes. 3. The UI/UX experience when accessing Microsoft 365 from desktop versus mobile apps feels like completely different designs. As a result, navigation can be confusing as users have to code-switch their way of thinking when going through the app in the context of the desktop version versus the mobile version.