The real reason for chuckling here is the implication that anyone would use O365 for personal use. I'm stupid enough to use it and have almost decided to write-off the money I paid and go elsewhere. This is what $70/yr gets you:
1. ActiveSync! This is the only reason I'm still putting up with this garbage.
2. My company also uses O365, extensively. We have a wiki of sorts in OneNote. I can't contribute to it. Logging into the corp account and clicking "open in desktop" results in an error that claims that I don't have a license. I do. On an on-premise licensed domain-joined machine. I don't on my own O365 account but I didn't log on with that.
3. No layman interface. Want to disable password expiry for your 89yr old father? You'll need to download and install a powershell plugin before you can start reading documentation.
4. Inexplicable login problems. No UI to enter my login email because I had logged into a temporary SP online site I was debugging with. Later I found a "forget this login" link under the temporary login; restoring my access to any other account.
5. "Live login? Microsoft login? We don't know, tell us every time. Oh! You can't use Live with this service anyway!" I no longer know which of the two accounts my stuff is on.
TLDR; O365 is great for corporate/business. I'd recommend it. For personal stuff stay the hell away. They really want to give O365 to kids?
But usually only 1/10th the budget for people to run it. I've set up both O365 and Google Apps for schools, Google LDAP sync is way easier to work with, although the syncing of passwords is harder. MS's AD sync is complex, and ended up filling one server with debug log files.
1. ActiveSync! This is the only reason I'm still putting up with this garbage.
2. My company also uses O365, extensively. We have a wiki of sorts in OneNote. I can't contribute to it. Logging into the corp account and clicking "open in desktop" results in an error that claims that I don't have a license. I do. On an on-premise licensed domain-joined machine. I don't on my own O365 account but I didn't log on with that.
3. No layman interface. Want to disable password expiry for your 89yr old father? You'll need to download and install a powershell plugin before you can start reading documentation.
4. Inexplicable login problems. No UI to enter my login email because I had logged into a temporary SP online site I was debugging with. Later I found a "forget this login" link under the temporary login; restoring my access to any other account.
5. "Live login? Microsoft login? We don't know, tell us every time. Oh! You can't use Live with this service anyway!" I no longer know which of the two accounts my stuff is on.
TLDR; O365 is great for corporate/business. I'd recommend it. For personal stuff stay the hell away. They really want to give O365 to kids?