Microsoft admin portals

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Microsoft admin portals, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Buttons silently hidden without saying why they're unavailable, so users can't tell missing from moved2026-09-18
Messy, slow, ten different interfaces; can't find things without searching2026-02-05
Endless loading with no success indicator when saving a billing profile2024-10-21
Page is full of buzzword jargon and hard to find a way to buy Windows2020-06-28