Microsoft is offering G Suite legacy customers 60 percent off Microsoft 365 subscriptions. It comes just as Google plans to force legacy G Suite users over to paid subscriptions.

The offer is for current G Suite legacy free edition users who purchase a 12-month Microsoft 365 subscription by Aug. 2, according to a Microsoft post published Thursday.

With Google Hangouts, which is sold as part of G Suite, you get Hangouts Meet for voice and video calls. With Microsoft Teams, you get meetings and voice calls, too.

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If you look at the raw numbers between Google and Microsoft’s reach or dominance, Office is used by around 1.2 billion people, and Google says G Suite is used by 2 billion.

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They are usually office-suite agnostic. They'll do an okay job handling email, documents, messaging and communications in both a Microsoft and Google environment. But Fois is right.

G Suite, which competes directly with Microsoft's Office 365, is raising its prices for the first time. G Suite Basic will raise prices from $5 per user per month to $6.

G Suite, Google's productivity apps, now has more than 2 billion subscribers -- quite a feat for what was once a scrappy second-place player to Microsoft.