

So the problem should be on the software side instead of the hardware side. updating the newest chat messages).īeing the world's 2nd leader in cloud computing, Microsoft has already built huge infrastructure all over the world. OneNote sometimes needs ridiculously long time to synchronize.Įven for modern apps like Teams, there are occasional lagging problems (e.g.

It typically takes over 5 seconds to properly load a document which is not available in the local drive. But it is still much slower than its rivals.Įven the desktop Office apps are not as fast Google Suite when opening a document from OneDrive. I have been using Office web apps since 2013. OneDrive: navigating through folders is not as fast as Google Drive (which is almost as responsive as browsing local files in File Explorer).Office 365: even for a minor update to a word/excel/ppt file, it takes 7-8 seconds for the document to be saved in the cloud Google Suite: usually within 3 seconds.Office 365: typically takes 3-4 seconds to load and render a document Google Suite: typically under 1-2 seconds.After almost 10 years of development, the Office web apps are still quite slow compared with Google Suite apps:
