{"slug": "microsoft-365", "name": "Microsoft 365", "category": "productivity", "category_name": "Productivity", "description": "", "recommenders": 7, "commenters": 91, "warners": 56, "score": -37.028, "rising": -0.96, "first": "2025-11-02", "latest": "2026-10-24", "why": "I am now using Office 365 and am being able to keep it much cleaner.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 8, "neutral": 22, "compare": 7, "warn": 61}, "spark": [1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I am now using Office 365 and am being able to keep it much cleaner.", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Microsoft 365", "Office 365", "Microsoft Office 365"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 795975376, "item_id": 49748461, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748461", "by": "tombert", "date": "2026-09-17", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Office 365 works with Wine on Linux", "excerpt": "At the risk of getting in trouble for frequent self promotion, I sicked Claude for a few hours, and Office 365 works with Wine on Linux: https://github.com/Tombert/office365_flake It seems to work fine for me, with a legit Office 365 account. I can't promise it will fix your problems but it's the \"real\", full-fat Windows version of Office, so it might be a starting point if you want to avoid virtualization.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I hate you Microsoft"}, {"id": 784749904, "item_id": 49046869, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046869", "by": "Terretta", "date": "2026-07-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Runs M365 suite perfectly, so ideal as an all in one.", "excerpt": "Rather than all that to turn an e-reader into a tablet, consider a general tablet that's an excellent outdoor/travel e-reader already: https://daylightcomputer.com/ 2004: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456834 It's not e-paper, it's a different approach called \"Live Paper\" that's far more practical for everything beyond reading, yet still fantastic in direct sun: https://www.slashgear.com/1655111/daylight-comp", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Boox Go 10.3 (gen II) Lumi: First impressions"}, {"id": 760029299, "item_id": 47501831, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501831", "by": "fortran77", "date": "2026-03-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I pay for a 365/OneDrive subscription and it works well.", "excerpt": "I have the same experience. I'm on a Windows Surfuace 7 Arm laptop right now. There's no Copilot icon next to the start menu. I press the start icon and I don't see a single ad anywhere. THere are no ads on my screen. I use Edge and I don't see anything odd while I shop. Granted, I run \"Pro.\" Mayhbe the home edition has more of this? I pay for a 365/OneDrive subscription and it works well. I get the apps on desktop/l", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft's \"Fix\" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"}, {"id": 755556497, "item_id": 47222281, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47222281", "by": "Terretta", "date": "2026-03-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Your M365 connector aggressively avoids enumeration", "excerpt": "> real trade-off \u2026 thankful for any feedback Speaking as a tiny but regulated SMB that's dabbling in skill plugins with Cowork: we strongly appreciate and support this stance. We hope you don't relax your standards, and need you not to. We strongly agree with (1), (2), and (3). If working outside the sandbox becomes available, Cowork becomes a more interesting exfil vector. A vbox should also be able to be made non-o", "context": "", "use_case": "Office data connector", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"}, {"id": 751314898, "item_id": 46957181, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957181", "by": "bapetel", "date": "2026-02-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For Docs use Google Workspace or Microsoft 365", "excerpt": "I'm an Odoo developer and here are my advices because the main issue with Odoo implementations are excessive customizations with no boundaries 1. Stay with Odoo Community but define the scope CRM standard functionnality, no custom development : use standard configurations only to reduce technical dependency If something is really needed as customization, check the OCA repositories https://github.com/OCA/crm OCA is Od", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Non-profit, volunteers run org needs CRM. Is Odoo Community a good sol.?"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 803611600, "item_id": 50225725, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225725", "by": "encom", "date": "2026-10-24", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Office 365 is the bane of my work day.", "excerpt": "I work in the public sector in Denmark. Office 365 is the bane of my work day. I only have access to the web versions of the apps, but they feel like toys. It seems impossible to do anything even moderately complex with them. Especially form design. I've installed Linux+LibreOffice on a spare machine at work that I use occasionally, to keep from tearing my hair out. As much as I despise Microsoft, I admit that their ", "context": "public sector worker in Denmark", "use_case": "work documents and forms", "switched_from": "", "story": "Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office"}, {"id": 803543552, "item_id": 50221472, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50221472", "by": "ndom91", "date": "2026-10-24", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "required MS to disable their O365 email services", "excerpt": "This isn't the first wake-up call.. remember Trump putting a certain ICC judge on a newly created black list that required MS to disable their O365 email services? https://sota.io/blog/icc-microsoft-opendesk-migration-cloud-act-sanctions-case-study-2026 Many EU agencies, member governments, NGOs, etc. moving to open source alternatives since then.", "context": "", "use_case": "email services", "switched_from": "", "story": "Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology"}, {"id": 803338016, "item_id": 50208626, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50208626", "by": "TazeTSchnitzel", "date": "2026-10-23", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I can't fathom why they would willingly try to migrate such critical operations away from a secure state-run system.", "excerpt": "Apparently Skatteverket was just about to migrate to Office 365 for email until other administrative agencies complained: https://www.realtid.se/it-tech/skatteverkets-microsoftmejl-stoppas-efter-polisens-kritik/ I can't fathom why they would willingly try to migrate such critical operations away from a secure state-run system. I'm sure that system sucks in some ways. But those issues can be worked on, surely.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude"}, {"id": 800388176, "item_id": 50024261, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024261", "by": "AdmiralAsshat", "date": "2026-10-09", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "So my family plan used to give each member 1TB each (5TB total)...that will now drop to 2 TB", "excerpt": "Just received the following email from Microsoft: >Over the coming months1, we'll be introducing updates to your Microsoft 365 subscription. Nothing changes today, and we'll email you with more details before each change takes effect. > >What's coming: > > Copilot benefits for you: You'll get access to Copilot in your productivity apps and advanced AI features, with a shared AI usage allowance2 for everyone on your p", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft is about to hobble your O-365 Family Storage"}]}], "who": [{"by": "remuskaos", "context": "works at a non-software mercantile and manufacturing company", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138391", "date": "2026-10-18"}, {"by": "thewebguyd", "context": "IT manager", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547636", "date": "2026-03-27"}, {"by": "amanzi", "context": "observer of NZ businesses and government", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46198894", "date": "2025-12-08"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["office suite", "email and office suite", "work documents and forms", "email services", "office software", "enterprise collaboration"], "compared": [{"slug": "libreoffice", "name": "LibreOffice", "co": 18, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 4}, {"slug": "google-workspace", "name": "Google Workspace", "co": 7, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "opendesk", "name": "openDesk", "co": 7, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "nextcloud", "name": "Nextcloud", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "windows-11", "name": "Windows 11", "co": 6, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "onlyoffice", "name": "OnlyOffice", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "google-docs", "name": "Google Docs", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "gmail", "name": "Gmail", "co": 3, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 739016033, "item_id": 46188502, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46188502", "by": "AbbeFaria", "date": "2025-12-07", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "I don\u2019t think it offers the same functionality that M365 suite does.", "excerpt": "I work at MSFT. I understand why they migrated to LibreOffice. Outside of work, I use none of MSFT products. I do have some burning questions though, 1. How are they saving their work to the cloud if they use LibreOffice ? I don\u2019t think it offers the same functionality that M365 suite does. 2. How are they handling IT security? Are they using a different vendor ?", "context": "works at MSFT", "use_case": "cloud office suite", "switched_from": "", "story": "The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192186", "title": "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices", "mentions": 8}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45837342", "title": "ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341578", "title": "Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500335", "title": "Microsoft's \"Fix\" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47149701", "title": "Danish Gov agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328911", "title": "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline", "mentions": 2}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"warn": 10, "recommend": 1, "neutral": 3}, "2025-12": {"warn": 13, "recommend": 1, "neutral": 4}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 2, "warn": 5, "compare": 1}, "2026-02": {"warn": 5, "neutral": 3, "recommend": 1, "compare": 2}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 3, "warn": 8}, "2026-04": {"warn": 4, "neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {"warn": 4, "compare": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {"warn": 4, "recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-09": {"warn": 2, "neutral": 1, "recommend": 1, "compare": 2}, "2026-10": {"warn": 6, "neutral": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 803611600, "item_id": 50225725, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225725", "by": "encom", "date": "2026-10-24", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Office 365 is the bane of my work day.", "excerpt": "I work in the public sector in Denmark. Office 365 is the bane of my work day. I only have access to the web versions of the apps, but they feel like toys. It seems impossible to do anything even moderately complex with them. Especially form design. I've installed Linux+LibreOffice on a spare machine at work that I use occasionally, to keep from tearing my hair out. As much as I despise Microsoft, I admit that their ", "context": "public sector worker in Denmark", "use_case": "work documents and forms", "switched_from": "", "story": "Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office"}, {"id": 803543552, "item_id": 50221472, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50221472", "by": "ndom91", "date": "2026-10-24", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "required MS to disable their O365 email services", "excerpt": "This isn't the first wake-up call.. remember Trump putting a certain ICC judge on a newly created black list that required MS to disable their O365 email services? https://sota.io/blog/icc-microsoft-opendesk-migration-cloud-act-sanctions-case-study-2026 Many EU agencies, member governments, NGOs, etc. moving to open source alternatives since then.", "context": "", "use_case": "email services", "switched_from": "", "story": "Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology"}, {"id": 803338016, "item_id": 50208626, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50208626", "by": "TazeTSchnitzel", "date": "2026-10-23", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I can't fathom why they would willingly try to migrate such critical operations away from a secure state-run system.", "excerpt": "Apparently Skatteverket was just about to migrate to Office 365 for email until other administrative agencies complained: https://www.realtid.se/it-tech/skatteverkets-microsoftmejl-stoppas-efter-polisens-kritik/ I can't fathom why they would willingly try to migrate such critical operations away from a secure state-run system. I'm sure that system sucks in some ways. But those issues can be worked on, surely.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude"}, {"id": 802214261, "item_id": 50138391, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138391", "by": "remuskaos", "date": "2026-10-18", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "outlook and ms-365 for office etc.", "excerpt": "Serious question: what's your preferred alternative to SharePoint? We have an eclectic portemonteau of software, bookstack for docs, outlook and ms-365 for office etc. We're not a software company, think more mercantile and manufacture. We have a lot of stuff in excel, price calc, processes etc. I don't see a way away from excel. Currently we have all xls files on network drives, which is hard to maintain. Even thoug", "context": "works at a non-software mercantile and manufacturing company", "use_case": "office software", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 800388176, "item_id": 50024261, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024261", "by": "AdmiralAsshat", "date": "2026-10-09", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "So my family plan used to give each member 1TB each (5TB total)...that will now drop to 2 TB", "excerpt": "Just received the following email from Microsoft: >Over the coming months1, we'll be introducing updates to your Microsoft 365 subscription. Nothing changes today, and we'll email you with more details before each change takes effect. > >What's coming: > > Copilot benefits for you: You'll get access to Copilot in your productivity apps and advanced AI features, with a shared AI usage allowance2 for everyone on your p", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft is about to hobble your O-365 Family Storage"}, {"id": 800371152, "item_id": 50023197, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50023197", "by": "RGamma", "date": "2026-10-09", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Also note the hilarious framing instead of plainly saying that storage media has become more expensive:", "excerpt": "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/changes-to-microsoft-365-storage \"Will I receive any additional storage during the transition to shared storage? Existing Microsoft 365 Family and Premium customers who meet eligibility requirements in supported markets might receive bonus storage when their subscription renews after shared storage rolls out. [...] What happens if my family uses more than the storage quota", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft 365 Cuts Family OneDrive Storage from 6 TB to 2 TB"}, {"id": 798829265, "item_id": 49926829, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926829", "by": "linuxdaemon", "date": "2026-10-01", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "translates MS \"junk\" into standard protocols", "excerpt": "Assuming it's the auth stuff with 365 and the inability to create long-term app passwords; DavMail might solve the problem: https://sourceforge.net/projects/davmail/ It can handle the Office365 stuff (including Oauth2) and basically translates MS \"junk\" into standard protocols (POP, IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, etc). So if you got that to work, you could point getmail at davmail's imap port, and continue to use it like nor", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Terminal Email: terminal email clients for every system"}, {"id": 797536326, "item_id": 49846020, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846020", "by": "Quothling", "date": "2026-09-25", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "I don't think the M365 platform is the big hurdle it once was", "excerpt": "It looks like they're not quite set on that. There is a very empty part of the repo here: https://code.overheid.nl/MinBZK/DAWO/src/branch/main/componenten/samenwerksoftware The German Defense sector did something with Nextcloud, Collabora Online, Open-Xchange, Element/Matrix and Univention Nubus I believe. With things like Euro-Office and Nextcloud really stepping things up. Even Proton getting an office suite, I don", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"}, {"id": 796567185, "item_id": 49785449, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49785449", "by": "TechTechTech", "date": "2026-09-21", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Nextcloud can substitute MS365", "excerpt": "If the ICC gets sanctioned there will probably be a big boost in EU companies leaving USA services for good. Many are already very seriously talking about it, but need to be 'pushed' a bit more. The previous ICC sanctions started a lot of discussion in the EU. For example, people loose not only access to Microsoft services but also bank/credit card (Visa is USA). https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/18/internatio", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal Court"}, {"id": 795975376, "item_id": 49748461, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748461", "by": "tombert", "date": "2026-09-17", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Office 365 works with Wine on Linux", "excerpt": "At the risk of getting in trouble for frequent self promotion, I sicked Claude for a few hours, and Office 365 works with Wine on Linux: https://github.com/Tombert/office365_flake It seems to work fine for me, with a legit Office 365 account. I can't promise it will fix your problems but it's the \"real\", full-fat Windows version of Office, so it might be a starting point if you want to avoid virtualization.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I hate you Microsoft"}, {"id": 795408131, "item_id": 49713008, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713008", "by": "Nebulic", "date": "2026-09-15", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "via the Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace API", "excerpt": "Working on Fallax (https://fallax.io), phishing simulations for companies. The difference with most tools is we don't send the mails, we inject them directly in the mailbox via the Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace API. So no allowlisting in the spam filter, and no tests that silently get blocked. Results also go to Vanta, Drata etc. as training evidence, since that's why most companies need this anyway.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"}, {"id": 794179472, "item_id": 49636217, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636217", "by": "Hikikomori", "date": "2026-09-09", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "horrible to use compared to notes", "excerpt": "We migrated to office 365 around 2013 from notes, horrible to use compared to notes. The project was supposed to pay for itself with loweered license fees for notes users, then it turned out we had 2-3k apps in notes without any migration plan or budget, so most people still needed a lotus license for years.", "context": "employee in company migrated around 2013", "use_case": "enterprise collaboration", "switched_from": "Lotus Notes", "story": "Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch"}, {"id": 793553008, "item_id": 49597063, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49597063", "by": "Rochus", "date": "2026-09-07", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "they seem to reconsider that this dependability might not have been a good idea", "excerpt": "What misconception? The administration wrote themselves few years ago: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/de/07032023-bundesverwaltung-fuehrt-public-cloud-gestuetzte-anwendung-microsoft-365-ein Now (eventually) they seem to reconsider that this dependability might not have been a good idea. I worked for the Swiss administration myself as an external consultant for many years and have I pretty good insight.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers"}, {"id": 789298160, "item_id": 49331135, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331135", "by": "ferngodfather", "date": "2026-08-17", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Haven't had an issue since I moved to 365.", "excerpt": "I had both setup previously and constantly ended up in my recipients spam. When I'm trying to sort my life admin with local council/government/landlord/utilities, it's one thing to have a 'cool' custom email, but it's another to say \"oh yeah, sorry, it's probably in your spam\". Haven't had an issue since I moved to 365. Costs a little more but so much less hassle. I don't like it but I also need people to actually re", "context": "", "use_case": "email delivery", "switched_from": "self-hosted email", "story": "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"}, {"id": 789271632, "item_id": 49329477, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329477", "by": "kypro", "date": "2026-08-17", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I switched to M365 as my provider a few years back as my emails kept being flagged as spam.", "excerpt": "I switched to M365 as my provider a few years back as my emails kept being flagged as spam. I've done it for decades, but I don't know much beyond the basics of email hosting tbh, however my understanding is that these days email coming from self-hosted servers carries a much higher spam/junk risk and so often automatically marked as spam. Maybe there are ways to avoid this happening, but when a few clients all repor", "context": "", "use_case": "email hosting", "switched_from": "self-hosted email", "story": "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"}, {"id": 785352483, "item_id": 49084530, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49084530", "by": "cookiengineer", "date": "2026-07-28", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "they all don't even enforce SSL from server to server", "excerpt": "^ this Additionally, I would probably guess correctly that almost all spam comes from rotating ASNs these days. Aka from companies that do \"growth marketing\" or other bullshit that isn't a valid business but just... spamming people. A lot of the domains that fall through the cracks for single-spam-campaigns have been taken over by botnet campaigns, so the actual owners of said domains probably don't know that their w", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "DMARC Has Been Public Since 2012. 68.4% of Domains Still Don't Enforce It"}, {"id": 784749904, "item_id": 49046869, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046869", "by": "Terretta", "date": "2026-07-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Runs M365 suite perfectly, so ideal as an all in one.", "excerpt": "Rather than all that to turn an e-reader into a tablet, consider a general tablet that's an excellent outdoor/travel e-reader already: https://daylightcomputer.com/ 2004: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456834 It's not e-paper, it's a different approach called \"Live Paper\" that's far more practical for everything beyond reading, yet still fantastic in direct sun: https://www.slashgear.com/1655111/daylight-comp", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Boox Go 10.3 (gen II) Lumi: First impressions"}, {"id": 784416880, "item_id": 49026055, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026055", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-07-23", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Microsoft 365 aka Microsoft Copilot aka Office 365 has jumped off a cliff.", "excerpt": "https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status Microsoft 365 aka Microsoft Copilot aka Office 365 has jumped off a cliff. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025920 - July 2026 > Microsoft are telling customers there is no ETA to resolution and they may want to review their DR plans for their SaaS services. > \"Customers may wish to review their business continuity and disaster recovery plans and take actions approp", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI API Is Down"}, {"id": 782738224, "item_id": 48921139, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921139", "by": "laci37", "date": "2026-07-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "O365 browser stuff was always buggy", "excerpt": "I mostly feel this on Microsoft stuff. O365 browser stuff was always buggy, but last month I had to fight to zoom in on something in PowerPoint. Pagination in Azure ML randomly broke, it took them a month to fix it. Atlassian is also a bug factory, but I did not expect anything better of them. Each UI update they did to Confluence and Jira just made everything more confusing in the last 10 years.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"}, {"id": 782454160, "item_id": 48903385, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903385", "by": "lenkite", "date": "2026-07-14", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "The Microsoft 365 Team rely HEAVILY on AI to for coding and development including security fixes.", "excerpt": "Well, this is Microslop (https://microslop.com/) in action. The Microsoft 365 Team rely HEAVILY on AI to for coding and development including security fixes. None of the AI fans on HN will admit that AI just produces buggy software. They are all in the clouds about not having to type or face any friction to produce their dream vision or pet projects in a jiffy.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "IT administrators are \"fed up\" with Microsoft's \"useless\" apps and Windows 11"}, {"id": 782202881, "item_id": 48887680, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887680", "by": "cookiengineer", "date": "2026-07-12", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "They make it as painful as possible, and even disable copy/paste functionality", "excerpt": "Fun fact that will blow your mind: Microsoft decided to send Windows NT 10.0 in the User-Agent header even on Windows 11 for compatibility reasons. That's literally the reason why the Sec-CH-* headers say Windows 11 but the User-Agent says Windows 10. And regarding your claims of vendor interests: Nope, you seemingly never had to use O365 crapware on Linux browsers. They make it as painful as possible, and even disab", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Since Chronium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS"}, {"id": 776656545, "item_id": 48541034, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541034", "by": "fortran77", "date": "2026-06-15", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I pay for a Office365 subscription", "excerpt": "I don't know what the disconnect is. I'm running Windows 11 Arm right now on the best laptop I've ever owned -- an Asus Zenbook A16 with OLED screen and 48 GB of RAM (all for $1699). It's super fast -- it beats a 2026 Macbook Pro rendering Blender \"Classroom\". I have a Microsoft account, I don't know what the big deal is. I follow the happy path. It's nice to have settings (and I can control which ones) sync across m", "context": "", "use_case": "office suite", "switched_from": "", "story": "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"}, {"id": 773496240, "item_id": 48343515, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343515", "by": "sometimes_all", "date": "2026-05-30", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The only reason I pay for M365 family is for the 1 TB per member storage.", "excerpt": "The only reason I pay for M365 family is for the 1 TB per member storage. Excel is a bonus, and Word and Powerpoint are basically not needed any more. If a better storage deal comes along, I'll happily cancel.", "context": "", "use_case": "Storage and Office apps", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products"}, {"id": 773493136, "item_id": 48343321, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343321", "by": "cube00", "date": "2026-05-30", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I worry the next step is to make each agency negotiate their own individual licences", "excerpt": "They're working on it, they've recently stopped allowing the government to be treated a single customer. [1] While each agency still gets the same whole of government pricing, I worry the next step is to make each agency negotiate their own individual licences, which squeezes the smaller ones with no bargaining power. [1]: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/fed-gov-faces-major-m365-licensing-change-625453", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products"}, {"id": 773470304, "item_id": 48341894, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341894", "by": "jdswain", "date": "2026-05-30", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "I could do everything I actually use it for in Numbers and Pages.", "excerpt": "In a way it's not a joke. I was just considering that myself. I pay for a M365 family license, but when I think about it, I could do everything I actually use it for in Numbers and Pages. The only thing is file format compatibility, it is useful to be able to open word documents and be sure the formatting is correct, but even that is less important than it used to be. I used to make use of Office to edit work documen", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products"}, {"id": 772133780, "item_id": 48258361, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258361", "by": "Joel_Mckay", "date": "2026-05-24", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Copilot and MS365 have some API areas that no one outside MS actually knows what they do.", "excerpt": "Copilot and MS365 have some API areas that no one outside MS actually knows what they do. Day 2 task was cleaning our Win11 Steam game install drive: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI (when it works) Day 1 task installing Win11 Pro in offline-mode without TPM/Bitlocker speeds up the benchmarks a bit for a game system: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases Fun time", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Childhood Computing"}, {"id": 771935344, "item_id": 48245959, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245959", "by": "pelasaco", "date": "2026-05-23", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "which is definitely not better than gmail", "excerpt": "But it still great today, no? I mean professionally I am in the MS 365 world, which is definitely not better than gmail. We have some mail servers for services and until now we weren't able (for instance) to find an open source alternative to gmail and office 365.. any recommendation?", "context": "", "use_case": "Email and office suite", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Is Shattering Under Its Own Weight (The IBM-Ification of Google?)"}, {"id": 770062498, "item_id": 48128906, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128906", "by": "parliament32", "date": "2026-05-13", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "365 gives you 90d", "excerpt": "I guess it's not a termination, but a downgrade to the \"free\" tier. But that still makes sense, given Claude Design is limited \"to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans\". He's not on that plan anymore so.. what commercial reason could they possibly have to keep his data? Google Workspace seems to halt access immediately[1] and purge data within 60d[2]. For comparison, Atlassian leaves you access for 15d, and purges da", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing"}, {"id": 767926626, "item_id": 47995414, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995414", "by": "teekert", "date": "2026-05-03", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "MS365 fully from browser has so many annoyances", "excerpt": "Yeah it\u2019s funny how at this moment I\u2019d pay more for less Windows. But I\u2019ve found my way on Linux long ago. Sure not all software is there and MS365 fully from browser has so many annoyances, but I love the OS minimalism, how clean it is. My ideal windows in indeed win2000, but in a transparent VM so I can just do the Windows apps. I need LSW, Linux subsystem for Windows, essentially. I live in Linux but still have so", "context": "", "use_case": "Office apps in browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"}, {"id": 767146128, "item_id": 47946633, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47946633", "by": "zoobab", "date": "2026-04-29", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "In Belgium, 72% of the communes are on Microsoft 365", "excerpt": "In Belgium, 72% of the communes are on Microsoft 365: https://jurgen.gaeremyn.be/2025/03/08/european-critical-dependencies/ \"Purely based on the MX-records, we learn that 72% of Belgian municipalities run Microsoft mail servers and 60% of the Dutch municipalities. For Scandinavia, it\u2019s 64% in Norway and 57% in Sweden. In Finland, it\u2019s a whopping 77% if the cities that are being served by Microsoft.\"", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Soft launch of open-source code platform for government"}, {"id": 764367585, "item_id": 47772974, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772974", "by": "eek2121", "date": "2026-04-14", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I canceled my Microsoft 365 account due to their price hike", "excerpt": "You fail to understand the problem, I suspect. Just because files are in bespoke folders, does NOT mean they are being backed up. Example: I'm 1,016% over my OneDrive limit because I canceled my Microsoft 365 account due to their price hike to cover for AI costs. My laptop still pushes files there upon save thanks to Microsoft defaults (my desktop was moved to CachyOS long ago). If I had been using Backblaze for back", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"}, {"id": 763977843, "item_id": 47748615, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748615", "by": "rcarmo", "date": "2026-04-12", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "after some M365 hackery, my personal mail and calendar as well", "excerpt": "I\u2019m working on (and inside) https://github.com/rcarmo/piclaw. It started as \u201cmy own OpenClaw\u201d and quickly became an entire workspace to develop and test stuff in. It currently runs my homelab, my Obsidian vault, my blog static generator, a lot of my ARM low level stuff, and after some M365 hackery, my personal mail and calendar as well, all properly sandboxed. The home page at https://taoofmac.com has a list of thing", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"}, {"id": 763081030, "item_id": 47692564, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692564", "by": "trueno", "date": "2026-04-08", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "no prompts to o365 my life up", "excerpt": "i remember years and years ago learning some posix/shell syntax and working in terminal. felt like my love for windows unraveled in real time. these days using windows... feel like i gotta take a shower after. like many i was just raised on windows it was the household operating system i had like 20 years of general computer usage under my belt on windows before i finally felt a mac trackpad for the first time. that ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates"}, {"id": 763034066, "item_id": 47689629, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689629", "by": "rescorllc", "date": "2026-04-08", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Microsoft's IMAP migration feature loses folder structure", "excerpt": "AWS is discontinuing WorkMail, and we found ourselves needing to migrate a multi-domain organization with 400K+ messages across six accounts to Microsoft 365. There's no built-in migration wizard. Microsoft's IMAP migration feature loses folder structure, has no checkpointing, and quits permanently after 60 transient errors \u2014 which WorkMail's IMAP server generates frequently under sustained load. So we built aw2ms365", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 760762177, "item_id": 47547636, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547636", "by": "thewebguyd", "date": "2026-03-27", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "there is very real M365 lockin", "excerpt": "> lot of enterprises begin pondering the question, and then about a year from now, they start seriously studying and prototyping it Not sure about big enterprises, but I already see this happening in the mid-size, non tech company market. I'm an IT manager and has been a sysadmin/ops for my entire career, and the past ~4 years I've been seeing a pretty consistent shift toward companies my company does business with d", "context": "IT manager", "use_case": "Office apps", "switched_from": "", "story": "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"}, {"id": 760754208, "item_id": 47547138, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547138", "by": "kuerbel", "date": "2026-03-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "At my day job more and more customers are reconsidering cloud adoption, especially M365 and such.", "excerpt": "https://www.heise.de/en/news/Goodbye-Microsoft-Schleswig-Holstein-relies-on-Open-Source-and-saves-millions-11105459.html That was the situation at the end of December. Note that projects like these often fail not for technical reasons, not even cost, but political pressure from other parties, pressure from people that worked for ages in the administration and, well, have some problems to adjust to new software. There", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"}, {"id": 760161457, "item_id": 47510091, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47510091", "by": "Asmod4n", "date": "2026-03-24", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "are forced into 365 when you want a desktop app", "excerpt": "Will be removed from the next release. Then you can\u2019t connect to your own exchange server anymore and are forced into 365 when you want a desktop app.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"}, {"id": 760057776, "item_id": 47503611, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503611", "by": "thewebguyd", "date": "2026-03-24", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "especially Office & M365", "excerpt": "Plus, specifically for Microsoft, competing doesn't mean an alternative to Windows. It means an alternative to the entire enterprise stack, especially Office & M365. Google hasn't enticed the big entrenched MS orgs to move over to Workspace, so if Google can't how can a smaller startup ever hope to accomplish that in the face of these behemoths that can just outlast them in a race to the bottom until they are insolve", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft's \"Fix\" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"}, {"id": 760046193, "item_id": 47502887, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47502887", "by": "hedora", "date": "2026-03-24", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "didn't originally have the Microsoft 365 branding attached to it", "excerpt": "^--- this It is completely impossible to comply with European privacy law if you are using up-to-date Windows for your business. The US CLOUD Act compels companies to provide access to data on machines they have the technical ability to access. Starting in Windows 8, Microsoft granted itself the ability to pull locally-stored documents out of (non-onedrive) folders on all machines for \"debugging\" purposes. Since then", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft's \"Fix\" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"}, {"id": 760029299, "item_id": 47501831, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501831", "by": "fortran77", "date": "2026-03-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I pay for a 365/OneDrive subscription and it works well.", "excerpt": "I have the same experience. I'm on a Windows Surfuace 7 Arm laptop right now. There's no Copilot icon next to the start menu. I press the start icon and I don't see a single ad anywhere. THere are no ads on my screen. I use Edge and I don't see anything odd while I shop. Granted, I run \"Pro.\" Mayhbe the home edition has more of this? I pay for a 365/OneDrive subscription and it works well. I get the apps on desktop/l", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft's \"Fix\" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"}]}