I'm a small business of 2 people (husband/wife) and have been using Office365 for about 7 years now. We frequently use...

- Outlook

- OneDrive and OneNote

- Excel...some Word and Powerpoint

I think we pay about $250/yr for each of us.

Now - I'm not a fan of Microsoft having access to all of my information...and potentially running models on it/etc. Now, it appears like they want to force MFA using the Microsoft Authenticator App. I still use either Google Authenticator or 2-factor via SMS like what most banks have.

Is there a product suite, or series of products, that I can use to accomplish the same tasks? I just reviewed the Proton website and it definitely covers email, calendar, and looks to cover OneDrive functionality. I also like that they have VPN, too.

I understand Google has free options, but they are Google...reserving the right to also train models on our data/emails.

We use iOS devices, so I could go with the Numbers/Pages/Keynote/Notes/iCloud...but never really been a fan. Also used Evernote in the past.

Back to Proton mail - if I moved my domain over to them, would I be sent to Junk/Spam more or less often. My current emails frequently end in Junk/Spam and I do not do a lot of email...maybe 30-50/week to individuals or small distributions?

I will note that I used to send my Lesson Availability emails via my business email, and someone told me that I may be getting thrown into Junk/Spam because of that...even though my clients were not reporting it as Junk/Spam. Nowadays, I use Mailchimp for my Tennis Lesson email blasts that goes out 1-2x/week for maybe 40-50 emails.

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