• crystalmerchant@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yeah no shit, and you do think I have a single goddamn bit of influence over my corporation’s choice of email client??

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      8 months ago

      They can leech all the data they want from my employer. I don’t give a fuck. Never use company assets for personal business as an addendum.

      Just be a little more careful with your own stuff, s’all.

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        8 months ago

        Depends on your sector of work. Imagine you’re a therapist or a lawyer…

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          A lot of healthcare and education institutions use Outlook as well, so I wouldn’t be surprised if mental health or legal uses it too. There may be rules about what kind of client/student/patient information can be sent over email, and often there are healthcare/institution specific variants of the office suites which (are supposed to) meet regulatory requirements

          I think the other comment applies regardless. Do work things on the work device/account and let the workplace handle any other concerns. When it comes time to discuss alternatives, you can make a case for something else

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      8 months ago

      pretty sure when you bring that up to your company, that another company will have access to internal communication, that they will do something against it. It’s a willing data breach.

      • 𝐘Ⓞz҉@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        There’s no other company with all the required certification that can replace Microsoft office suite so all corporations are stuck with it and tbh nobody cares.

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          8 months ago

          Perhaps nobody in the US or in jobs with non-sensitive data cares about that. In the EU this could backfire hard against Microsoft.

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          8 months ago

          There are plenty of other services that have the compliance check boxes. Most of them are garbage, expensive, and don’t come with 5% of the other tools that MS does.

          There is a choice, and companies choose ms because it is best.

    • Elven_Mithril@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      well, as far as you use it just for your work, who cares, right? It’s the same as I’d never use Lastpass, my corp use it and even offered it for our personal use :D thanks, but no thanks! For personal use I would never use any microsoft solution.