Microsoft 365 vs. Widgit Essentials

Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365

8203 Reviews and Ratings

Widgit Essentials

Widgit Essentials

1 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft 365	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) is a Microsoft Cloud subscription service that includes Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access). The software can be installed across multiple devices and ensures that users always have the most up-to-date version of the included Office applications.	$5 Per User Per Month
Widgit Essentials	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Widgit Software in the UK offers Widgit Essentials, a bundle including their InPrint and SymWriter text accessibility software.	N/A

Pricing

Microsoft 365

Widgit Essentials

Editions & Modules

Business Basic: $5.00
Per User Per Month
Individual: $5.84
*Per Month
Business - Apps: $8.25
Per User Per Month
Enterprise - F3: $10.00
Per User Per Month
Business Standard: $12.50
Per User Per Month
Business Premium: $20.00
Per User Per Month
Enterprise - E3: $32.00
Per User Per Month
Enterprise - E5: $57.00
Per User Per Month

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Microsoft 365	Widgit Essentials
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

*When billed annually.

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Community Pulse
	Microsoft 365	Widgit Essentials
Considered Both Products	Microsoft 365 Andrew Ussher Business Owner Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 gives us a better offline experience, with the ability to have everything on my local device, but with automatic data sync to OneDrive when connected to the internet. The same with Outlook with a local version of the data. Many other systems use their "online" … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft 365 Compared to the g-suite Microsoft 365 is so much more universally used. I think it has a way further reach and is easier for everyone to use. It is the basic standard in our business and I’d expect that in most places. I can always transfer my skills and everything is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 works together well with other apps and performs well as it is the standard setter in many settings. Salesforce is good at what it excels and functions at. The two products do not compete in the same field and are good complementary tools to achieve project … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft is leaps and bounds ahead of these product suites and is an ecosystem unto itself, except for Google Workspace, which offers more features in its online versions than Office Online. Incentivized Helpful? Isaac Groenendyk Technology Coordinator Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft is the most business friendly especially in the business sector. In the education sector it is not as popular but still wield a ton of respect. Microsoft has their strengths and often has more features than the typically user would need, which is both a strength and … Incentivized Helpful? KB Kyle Berthiaume Purchasing Manager Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 is better in the fact that it doesn't try to upsell you daily. Adobe is always trying to get me to go premium. Incentivized Helpful? Sarah Ager Sr. Product Marketing Manager Chose Microsoft 365 Typically I prefer working with companies with Microsoft 365 as their main tool because they're usually a fast growing company with a global presence. I like using it for work because it's easy to collaborate, share, review, comment, reply in any of the tools. The mobile app … Incentivized Helpful? AV Ander Valle Administrator IT Chose Microsoft 365 I chose Microsoft 365 because the license includes cloud storage, which OpenOffice, even though it's free, doesn't offer. I also chose it for its customization capabilities for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other types of internal documents. In addition, it has … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft 365 Microsofts teams is far better than google meet application. It is easy to use. Better voice and video quality on teams application. Seamlessly it will work for online meetings. Mobile app is also very good. Incentivized Helpful? JA Josh Armitage Modern Engineering Practice Lead Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 has a strong incumbency moat, where it can be more readily assumed that people know how to use it relative to other options in market. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft 365 Reduced compatibility with Office documents. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft 365 It is one of a kind in my eyes. Incentivized Helpful? Giovanni Jurado Business Analyst Team Lead Chose Microsoft 365 BTE, this search bar is not the best; I couldn't find Google Suite. In any case, it's challenging to find a suite with advanced tools that serves as an office. Google comes close, no one uses OpenOffice (hyperbole), and there isn't much else to use. If you add to that the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft 365 In my opinion Microsoft 365 is the most complete out of the bunch because of the cloud and desktop apps, the easy expandability it brings in combination with Azure and Entra/Intune. I must say that Google Workspace is a close contender but the desktop apps are less complete in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft 365 Thunderbird is very nice tool but in my case not used because I have several issues with his calendar. Zoom is very good tool, providing you low band usage and good video and sound quality. I have tested OpenOffice but not nice UI experience. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft 365 Its very user-friendly, collaborative and efficient that boosts productivity using cloud tools. their security is strong and it provides data protection. There are regular updates that shields us from attackers too. It offers a wealth of learning resources, including tutorials, … Incentivized Helpful? AR Ashish Rane Deputy Manager - IT Chose Microsoft 365 All the features in Microsoft Office 365 are better than any other product in the market except the protection feature. This is the only weakness in Microsoft 365 where had to stop their protection and buy Proofpoint Advanced Threat Protection. The Exchange Online feature is … Incentivized Helpful? Phil Blake Director of IT Chose Microsoft 365 Device compatibility and enterprise level voice isn't as readily available with Google Voice. Incentivized Helpful? HY Huseyin Yagli Senior Staff Engineer Chose Microsoft 365 Google sheets is better for sharing and collaborative editing. Versioning of the same file is also one of Google Sheets strong points. Microsoft 365 is better for working with local files. It is much easier to store the file in multiple places and backup multiple versions in … Incentivized Helpful? Kelly Turner Project Manager Chose Microsoft 365 I really don't know of anything that is a competitor for Microsoft 365 - that's both good and bad. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft 365 I used to like Google more than Microsoft because I used it more, but now I think they are very similar. I am able to use both on my phone, both have Clouds, and both have synced calendars, documents, and sheets. The reason I use Microsoft is [that] my company uses it, and I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft 365 Google Sheets, doesn't give me the same flexibility that Excel does. I have been frustrated when trying to work in Sheets to build complex spreadsheets. It is easier to manipulate and the spreadsheet can still be shared with a team member when cooperation needs to be had in … Incentivized Helpful? Aurpa Fiza Mapple Ltd Chose Microsoft 365 Compared to Docs & Sheets, Microsoft Word, Excel, and Sheets offer more functionality. Notepad is almost always pre-installed on Microsoft Word-enabled computers. This alternative to Microsoft Word isn't as robust, but it's free. Microsoft Publisher is incompatible with Adobe … Incentivized Helpful? AH Andrew Huss Junior Architect Chose Microsoft 365 I was not in charge of choosing Microsoft 365, but I have used Google Drive extensively in the past. Google Drive and OneDrive are VERY similar. you can hook them up to your file explorer and share links, auto-sync files, and access them on your mobile/tablet, etc. Google Docs … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) and Google Drive have a very similar structure. Both have apps that can provide the same performance. For example, Google Docs and Microsoft Word are alike. Likewise, Google Sheets and Excel, Google Meet and Teams, Google Slide and … Incentivized Helpful?	Widgit Essentials No answer on this topic

Best Alternatives
	Microsoft 365	Widgit Essentials
Small Businesses	Google Workspace Score 9.1 out of 10	Google Workspace Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Google Workspace Score 9.1 out of 10	Google Workspace Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	Microsoft 365 Business Premium Score 8.9 out of 10	Microsoft 365 Business Premium Score 8.9 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Microsoft 365	Widgit Essentials
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.7 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft 365	Widgit Essentials
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft 365 would be well suited for medium to large enterprises. This is where there are several hundreds or thousands of people. Since most everyone has used one of the applications the learning curve would be reduced. Another reason would be the ability to implement security measures to prevent access to sensitive data. This could justify the cost of an Enterprise license. Incentivized Chad Howell Scrum Master Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Chat with teams and the integrations with the other apps, and many more smaller ones, like to-dos, news, and the recent Outlook integration. Easy embedding on SharePoint to broadcast all the content created in the different tools. The office package is still robust with the good things from the past and new additions. Incentivized Giovanni Jurado Business Analyst Team Lead Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Fix Outlook. It crashes constantly, uses way too many resources, and freezes to the point that I need to shut it down in the Task Manager. Excel could use an easier numbering function. I used to drag down, and it would number the cells ascending. Somewhere, it lost this function and just copied the same number down the column, which is kind of useless. Someone needs to create (and include) a quick and easy cheat sheet for commonly used formulas. It would be nice if a drop-down would let you choose a formula (without all the prior programming). TN Tracy Novack Administration Read full review	No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	I am completely satisfied with the product, and helps me on a daily basis. I do not the exact cost (it is not a cheap suite) but on the medium and long term the return on investment is guaranteed. Incentivized Lisandro Fernigrini Sr Data Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Because it's efficient and cost effective. I can work offline even when there is no Internet or I'm travelling. I am able to meet deadlines because it is user friendly which makes it easy to use. I make good use of the cloud storage as well so I have all my files in one place. Emmanuel Robinson Accountant Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Over the past 8 years of using Microsoft 365, I have noticed that they change vendors often. This always leads to a poor experience in the beginning, then levels out after some time for the company to get things worked out. As a customer, it is really frustrating because I don't have time when something isn't working to have them "look into my issue" and get back with me. They have even closed a ticket I specifically told them to keep open. Your applications are only as good as the support. Incentivized Sam Livermore, MCP, iTIL Lead Systems Administrator Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Everything works and I use it all the time. Incentivized JB Jeffrey Barsky Owner Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft 365 works together well with other apps and performs well as it is the standard setter in many settings. Salesforce is good at what it excels and functions at. The two products do not compete in the same field and are good complementary tools to achieve project management goals and tasks. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	1600+ users have adopted Microsoft 365 in our company. We even created enablement sharepoint pages for every department and for new hires to go to as the source of truth or see what ERGs to join. Huge time saved with the meeting scheduling assistant especially when trying to book time with busy leaders. Copilots meeting summaries and email summaries are amazing. We can even use your own AI within Teams and ask it questions about our customer accounts, HR questions, etc. right within the Teams platform. Incentivized Sarah Ager Sr. Product Marketing Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
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