Every company I've worked for since somewhere around 2015 has used Office 365 (though one or two did self-host their own Exchange). I also recently got fed up with Gmail for a couple of reasons and moved all my personal things over to Microsoft's Hosted Exchange (O365 minus the O, basically).
While there are certainly some things I don't like about the UI, the migration tool never worked for me, and it feels like everything in the admin needs some good QA for error handling things appropriately, from the client side it's by no means sexy or exciting it... just works. I've decided that email is one of those utility type things that I don't want to be sexy or exciting, I just want it to work reliably and not have to think about it. Ever.
Given that all I really use it for is my own email and personal calendar the $4/user/month price is a tad steep, but with the handful of accounts I need I'm fine spending the price of a couple of cups of coffee for the simplicity. I can also mix and match just email vs. full Office 365 licenses, so that's nice.
While there are certainly some things I don't like about the UI, the migration tool never worked for me, and it feels like everything in the admin needs some good QA for error handling things appropriately, from the client side it's by no means sexy or exciting it... just works. I've decided that email is one of those utility type things that I don't want to be sexy or exciting, I just want it to work reliably and not have to think about it. Ever.
Given that all I really use it for is my own email and personal calendar the $4/user/month price is a tad steep, but with the handful of accounts I need I'm fine spending the price of a couple of cups of coffee for the simplicity. I can also mix and match just email vs. full Office 365 licenses, so that's nice.