Stop McMaster Changing our Gmail Accounts to MS 365 Accounts

The Issue

Transferring out McMaster Gmail Accounts to Microsoft 365 is more hassle than it is worth. The drive storage associated with MS 365 is OneDrive, which does not automatically save your work. It is less compatible with Macs than Google is, and requires transferring and syncing to access many of these functions that McMaster claims will be more convenient. We will have to transfer all of our files and lose access to our Gmail account, all so that we can use some more "features" in online classes hosted by MS 365 (which a fraction of classes are), features that we probably won't use anyways, and won't matter once we go back to in person classes. This is a bad move. Let's stop it from happening.

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The Issue

Transferring out McMaster Gmail Accounts to Microsoft 365 is more hassle than it is worth. The drive storage associated with MS 365 is OneDrive, which does not automatically save your work. It is less compatible with Macs than Google is, and requires transferring and syncing to access many of these functions that McMaster claims will be more convenient. We will have to transfer all of our files and lose access to our Gmail account, all so that we can use some more "features" in online classes hosted by MS 365 (which a fraction of classes are), features that we probably won't use anyways, and won't matter once we go back to in person classes. This is a bad move. Let's stop it from happening.

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The Decision Makers

Gayleen Gray
Gayleen Gray
Assistant Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
David Farrar
David Farrar
President of McMaster

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