Google is a better long term hold than Microsoft.

This is anecdotal. I’m stupid so take it with a grain of salt.

I work in IT in public education. Hence I’m stupid and can’t do anything else more promising in tech.

Anyway, kids are not using Word these days, like at all. Maybe you first word processed with Word. Maybe you grew up with Office products. This generation isn’t. Google is the most evil company in the world. And as the evil geniuses they are, they’re thinking decades ahead. They know that their long term future depends on kids getting hooked on their products, so that when they’re leaders of companies in the future, their company is powered by Google Workspace and not Office. Google beat Microsoft and Apple in the education market. ChromeOS now has more market share than MacOS. Kids are doing all of their productivity tasks in the Google ecosystem. Remember back in 2016/17 when you might have said to yourself, “why do all these kids want to be Youtubers when they grow up?” I know why this happened. I’ve seen the district dashboard data. YouTube is the #1 site kids use on their school issued Chromebook.

Office products will do well for the next 20 years in enterprise settings. And then all of the sudden Google Workspace will be king in enterprise. Why? Because they planted the seeds and won the public education market and brainwashed millions of kids.

TLDR. Buy Google not Microsoft.