"As we exclusively revealed in March 2018, the aerospace giant told 130,000 employees it was ditching Microsoft's productivity tools for Google's cloud-based alternatives. Then-CEO Tom Enders predicted migration would finish in 18 months, a timeline that, in hindsight, was "extremely ambitious," according to Catherine Jestin, Airbus's executive vice president of digital. Today, more than two-thirds of Airbus's 150,000 employees have fully transitioned, but significant pockets remain on Microsoft tools."
"Finance, for example, still relies on Excel because Google Sheets can't handle the necessary file sizes, as some spreadsheets involve 20 million cells. "Some of the limitations was just the number of cells that you could have in one single file. We'll definitely start to remove some of the work," Jestin told The Register. Commercial, procurement, and legal teams need robust change tracking for contracts, a feature Google is still perfecting with promised 100 percent compatibility coming in 2026."
Airbus began migrating its 100,000-plus workforce from Microsoft Office to Google Workspace more than seven years ago and has not finished the transition. More than two-thirds of the company's 150,000 employees have fully moved to Google, but substantial groups remain on Microsoft tools. Finance depends on Excel for very large spreadsheets—some reaching 20 million cells—because Google Sheets lacks required capacity. Commercial, procurement, and legal teams require robust change tracking for contracts that Google aims to fully support by 2026. Military-classified document rules prevent cloud storage, forcing certain teams to remain on on-premises Microsoft software indefinitely. Airbus continues to pay Microsoft licenses while completing migration.
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