I am a subscriber to Office365. I shamelessly admit, the main goal was to buy offline standardised office toolset for the whole family. This was based on my previous experience with the Microsoft tools, which have, somewhere, along the way, started offering something called SkyDrive (weird) and then OneDrive (less weird). I was happily typing away, formatting the documents in the required formats, making required PowerPoint presentations (after exporting them from Google Drive :P), never exploring the actual “OneDrive”.

When I finally did get to check what OneDrive actually is, I was pleasantly surprised. It offers a complete cloud-based suite of office tools – starting with disk (1TB), all the web-based Office tools, Skype, Sway, etc. Of course, there are some issues (e.g., I cannot sync Google Calendar), but overall, it looks very good. I believe it is not equal to Google Drive (and G-Suite) in terms of sharing and collaboration on the same document, but that still has to be explored.

One killer feature to finish this biased and short entry: editing something in web version of Word, clicking on button “Edit in Word”, opens the actual full version of Word with that specific document. You edit it, save it et voila, it is shown in the web version of Word. Sweet!*

* Yes, the same functionality can be obtained with InSync and Google Drive. However, it is not as integrated as this one.