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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Teams and Office 365 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Virtual Meetings solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Microsoft Teams vs. Office 365 Report (Updated: March 2020).
769,065 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"Microsoft Teams is a very good collaborative tool.""The product has improved communication in our organization.""The corporate world widely accepts the solution for virtual meetings. Also, it has good availability.""Microsoft Teams is a friendly and easy-to-install solution.""We use Microsoft Teams for group communications.""The communication part has been excellent so far.""File sharing is the most valuable feature.""Valuable screen sharing feature."

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"The phone VoIP product provides genuine a unified communication solution.""The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration.""The most valuable feature of Office 365 is automatic saving. If something happens on the computer your work is saved.""The most valuable feature is Microsoft Exchange.""It is very easy to deploy.""​Great impact on project management and team collaboration.""If you have a global solution, you can go from one product to the other very easily. And then you can share data between all the different tools of Office which is good because participation and sharing is very good. That's the most important aspect of Office 365.""It's nice that it's an all-in-one solution and everything is all in one place."

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Cons
"Inability to see large numbers of participants.""If I could completely eliminate Outlook and only use Teams, that would help me immensely. Productivity would increase drastically and many of our team members would be more efficient in our day-to-day, as we would be living primarily in a single tool.""Whiteboard should be standard rather than an app.""Screen sharing sometimes causes the solution to crash.""The product should improve its pricing.""The solution should include features like scripting, meeting summarization, and automated notes.""Microsoft Teams could improve because it is heavy on bandwidth. We have some access points and when we have 30 or 40 users on it with Microsoft Teams calls can drop. WebEx does not use as much bandwidth.""The software could be optimized for Mac systems because sometimes it is slow and consumes a lot of memory."

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"Using Office 365 is not that flexible on some mobile devices, like Android.""Their support is so terrible and unusable except during dire emergencies.""It needs improvements around its compatibility with non-Microsoft products.""I'm not sure if there are areas of improvement. For us, it's working quite well.""We have found that, with Teams, if you are including one more person who is not in the company ecosystem, supposedly I'm inviting them as a guest in the chat. However, when I do that, I can't share files.""Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could use some customization, but this area for improvement is trivial.""I started working a lot on Microsoft Teams and I find it a bit vast. It should be divided out a bit so that someone can use it for basic functionality, like audio, video, and calls. Then, if someone wants more advanced functionality for file sharing and team creation, and so on, they could use a separate app.""There are some complexities to the initial setup if you use some of the more advanced features."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Pricing is free to a threshold and then after that you have to license per user."
  • "It is the standard license which is part of many Office packets."
  • "We are satisfied with the price of this solution."
  • "If you have content that requires more security and you want to use it in a more secure manner, with more protection, then it will come at a higher cost."
  • "If you have clients who do not have a computer and are joining with their phones it's an additional fee of $5.00 per user."
  • "The pricing for Teams is very competitive."
  • "My understanding is that there are licensing fees, but I'm not sure how much they might be."
  • "It is affordable because it also includes the licenses on Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office and SharePoint."
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  • "Licensing, billing, and accounting are available from the management interface."
  • "Good reporting and good value subscriptions for international calls."
  • "​The pricing/licensing is easy to manage."
  • "The pricing is good for all the features that we receive, e.g., Skype for Business."
  • "The pricing is not really high, but one can get the software with the license key for free."
  • "The pricing is high and has actually caused us to limit the number of licenses we purchase due to budgeting."
  • "I think that we pay $9.99 USD per user, monthly."
  • "Most of the time, we purchase Microsoft Exchange licenses, which are less expensive and provide only an email platform and 50 gigabytes of email storage for free."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It's great for meetings and even hybrid classes, for example, where the teacher has students attending in person and online at the same time. It's really convenient for that too, and I like that you… more »
    Top Answer:The pricing is okay. The higher education department manages the subscription, so I am unaware of the licensing costs.
    Top Answer:The only issue is sometimes, when I share my screen, and there's text on it, the compression can make it very blurry. If Teams could solve this problem so that text remains clear during screen… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Office 365 is automatic saving. If something happens on the computer your work is saved.
    Top Answer:I’m not sure of the exact cost. In the past, it might have been free. However, now, people do need to pay in order to use it. I would put the pricing around two out of five. It's not the cheapest… more »
    Top Answer:Office 365 could be easier to use at first. Tutorials are needed to know how to use the solution.
    Ranking
    5th
    out of 63 in Virtual Meetings
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    Average Words per Review
    331
    Rating
    8.4
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    Average Words per Review
    444
    Rating
    8.1
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    Also Known As
    MS Teams
    Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 Enterprise, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Business, Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 F1
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    Overview

    At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation we are driving across our businesses is designed to enable Microsoft and our customers to thrive in this world.

    We do business in 170 countries and are made up of 114,000 passionate employees dedicated to fulfilling our mission of helping you and your organization achieve more.

    Office 365 is more than just Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. It provides powerful services like business-class email, online storage, and teamwork solutions that you can access from anywhere. Bring teams and resources together with solutions like Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business that make working together more productive and enjoyable regardless of where participants are located. Easily implement security and privacy controls to help protect business data and devices against malicious threats and help you meet your compliance obligations. Automatic updates ensure your employees will always have the latest features and security updates.

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    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization61%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Government4%
    Computer Software Company4%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company25%
    Manufacturing Company19%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Energy/Utilities Company3%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization76%
    Computer Software Company3%
    Financial Services Firm3%
    Government2%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business34%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise39%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business7%
    Midsize Enterprise63%
    Large Enterprise30%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business48%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise30%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business7%
    Midsize Enterprise78%
    Large Enterprise14%
    Buyer's Guide
    Microsoft Teams vs. Office 365
    March 2020
    Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft Teams vs. Office 365 and other solutions. Updated: March 2020.
    769,065 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Microsoft Teams is ranked 5th in Virtual Meetings with 145 reviews while Office 365 is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews. Microsoft Teams is rated 8.2, while Office 365 is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Teams writes "Great for project planning and monitoring with easy communication capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Office 365 writes "Great vulnerability insights, offers very impressive cash savings, and offers great information security tools". Microsoft Teams is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, SharePoint, Symphony, Loom and Chatter, whereas Office 365 is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Atlassian Confluence, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Dropbox. See our Microsoft Teams vs. Office 365 report.

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