A 300+ user organization using Zoho Workplace is evaluating Microsoft 365 after several employees purchased Microsoft subscriptions for email archiving and desktop app compatibility.

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        "excerpt": "paying for two different ecosystems just to solve a storage problem is a great way to double your billing headaches lol. just migrate the whole lot to 365 and call it a day. trying to frankenstein zoho and microsoft together for 300 people is just asking for a nightmare of sync errors",
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