{"slug": "sharepoint", "name": "SharePoint", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 2, "commenters": 4, "warners": 1, "score": 1.255, "rising": 0.67, "first": "2026-06-21", "latest": "2026-10-18", "why": "I find myself pushing for SharePoint, simply so we can use the integrated share features in word and excel.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I find myself pushing for SharePoint, simply so we can use the integrated share features in word and excel.", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["SharePoint"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 802217968, "item_id": 50138623, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138623", "by": "remuskaos", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "SharePoint has a clear advantage here.", "excerpt": "Google is completely out of the question. As I said, we cannot switch away from Excel, whether I like it or not. Google Sheets is not a viable option: Everyone in the company knows Excel. Network shares aren't bad per se, but they encourage people to place multiple files with the same name and then a V4, V5, V6 etc suffix. People have to download or check out the Excel files if they want to work with them, delete the", "context": "company entrenched in Excel", "use_case": "shared Excel document workflow", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 802214256, "item_id": 50138391, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138391", "by": "remuskaos", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I find myself pushing for SharePoint, simply so we can use the integrated share features in word and excel.", "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": "shared Excel and Word files", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 777979138, "item_id": 48623696, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623696", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-06-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Native support: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/onedriveblog/introducing-markdown-support-in-sharepoint-and-onedrive/4512174", "excerpt": "Native support: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/onedriveblog/introducing-markdown-support-in-sharepoint-and-onedrive/4512174 Microsoft OSS python: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown There seem to be many addons that enable this, and pandoc as others have suggested", "context": "", "use_case": "Markdown support", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 789274385, "item_id": 49329649, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329649", "by": "mrngld", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Teams, SharePoint, Google Docs, someone somewhere is doing those things much better.", "excerpt": "There's competition, but no one is interested. TBH, I blame IT leadership. The easy choice is Google or Microsoft. \"No one ever got fired for buying IBM\" is now \"No one ever got fired for subbing to Office.\" Someone needs to bite the bullet and stitch together an alternative array of services. They've cultivated their own monoculture by hitting the easy-button and forking over for Office365, etc. Which if we're being", "context": "", "use_case": "corporate collaboration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"}]}], "who": [{"by": "remuskaos", "context": "company entrenched in Excel", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138623", "date": "2026-10-18"}, {"by": "rf15", "context": "European insurance/gov company", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50134928", "date": "2026-10-17"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["shared excel document workflow", "document sharing and versioning", "shared excel and word files", "document sharing", "corporate collaboration", "markdown support"], "compared": [{"slug": "microsoft-excel", "name": "Microsoft Excel", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "github", "name": "GitHub", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "microsoft-outlook", "name": "Microsoft Outlook", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "microsoft-teams", "name": "Microsoft Teams", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "libreoffice", "name": "LibreOffice", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50130228", "title": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328911", "title": "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622123", "title": "Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"warn": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 802217968, "item_id": 50138623, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138623", "by": "remuskaos", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "SharePoint has a clear advantage here.", "excerpt": "Google is completely out of the question. As I said, we cannot switch away from Excel, whether I like it or not. Google Sheets is not a viable option: Everyone in the company knows Excel. Network shares aren't bad per se, but they encourage people to place multiple files with the same name and then a V4, V5, V6 etc suffix. People have to download or check out the Excel files if they want to work with them, delete the", "context": "company entrenched in Excel", "use_case": "shared Excel document workflow", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 802215600, "item_id": 50138475, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138475", "by": "remuskaos", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I'd rather prefer something like SharePoint, but not from Microsoft.", "excerpt": "Same question I've had in the other comment. What is your preferred alternative to SharePoint? Because we do need document sharing, and I don't see a viable way away from Excel for us. Right now we're sharing Excel files on network drives, which is horrible for versioning files, so I'd rather prefer something like SharePoint, but not from Microsoft. LibreOffice and Collabora don't seem to be there yet. Personally, I ", "context": "company entrenched in Excel", "use_case": "document sharing and versioning", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 802214256, "item_id": 50138391, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138391", "by": "remuskaos", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I find myself pushing for SharePoint, simply so we can use the integrated share features in word and excel.", "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": "shared Excel and Word files", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 802158850, "item_id": 50134928, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50134928", "by": "rf15", "date": "2026-10-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "we use Teams, Outlook, Sharepoint as side products of Office", "excerpt": "In our european company (insurance/gov space) we use Teams, Outlook, Sharepoint as side products of Office, largely to get the official editing tools for the documents our clients provide. Depending on who you are in our company, you are using either Mac or Windows, although we are slowly shifting to OpenSUSE. Azure and GitHub are completely out of the question, and OneDrive is only used in the context of Teams/Share", "context": "European insurance/gov company", "use_case": "document sharing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 789274385, "item_id": 49329649, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329649", "by": "mrngld", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Teams, SharePoint, Google Docs, someone somewhere is doing those things much better.", "excerpt": "There's competition, but no one is interested. TBH, I blame IT leadership. The easy choice is Google or Microsoft. \"No one ever got fired for buying IBM\" is now \"No one ever got fired for subbing to Office.\" Someone needs to bite the bullet and stitch together an alternative array of services. They've cultivated their own monoculture by hitting the easy-button and forking over for Office365, etc. Which if we're being", "context": "", "use_case": "corporate collaboration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"}, {"id": 777979138, "item_id": 48623696, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623696", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-06-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Native support: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/onedriveblog/introducing-markdown-support-in-sharepoint-and-onedrive/4512174", "excerpt": "Native support: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/onedriveblog/introducing-markdown-support-in-sharepoint-and-onedrive/4512174 Microsoft OSS python: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown There seem to be many addons that enable this, and pandoc as others have suggested", "context": "", "use_case": "Markdown support", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?"}]}