Back to Microsoft I go..

After a couple of months back with Google Workspace, I decided to move back to (on a different, clean tenant) Microsoft 365 Business Premium. There are a number of reasons for doing so:

• Moving back to a personal Google account means that I get all the consumer-level fun that most people get to enjoy with Google products. When using Google Workspace, you don't necessarily get all the goodies because Google won't bring them to businesses simply as there isn't a valid reason to do so, or it requires additional development and would take some time before those features became available.
• I was asked a question about Microsoft Teams at work the other day, and having not had to go anywhere near Teams administration for a while, I was rather embarrassed to say that I had forgotten.
• I really, really need to learn how to make the best use of SharePoint - and in particular, SharePoint design. Google Sites is much easier to use and can provides easy-to-use design tools. SharePoint can produce extremely professional designs, but the tools are very tricky to learn and get used to and thus requires a bit of practice. I'd rather not practise on a business-critical tenant.
• Gmail's font size is still far too small and I dislike having to use a Chrome extension to "fix" it. Where "fix" is  adjusting the font size for reading and the composing window only - all emails sent will be with the "normal" font size, which I honestly do not believe is suitable in the age of higher-resolution displays.
• Email Log Filtering. I raised a point with the Google Workspace Administration Features community about getting Google to implement better filtering of email logs. If I want to find a rejected/failed email, it is not a pleasant experience. Even being able to export logs and have some form of A.I. analyse it would be better (or better yet - integrate Log Search with Gemini directly).
• Plus, I just miss using Outlook (for web) which I feel is much cleaner and more polished, and has been given more attention by its developers than that of Google.

The downside is navigating the myriad of licensing options, and the many, many, many portals required to tune and tweak Office and Exchange Online for optimal use. What I won't be doing, however, is using Microsoft Copilot. It's too expensive and for what it does versus the other big A.I. giants (OpenAI, Anthropic, Manus, Google, etc.), it's a disaster.

So now I'm back with Microsoft 365, and it's been a good couple of days now without incident.