microsoft.com

Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with microsoft.com, 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 15 complaints

People get stuck at the captcha during sign-up and it stays broken2026-09-07
Back button returns through several unexpected redirects instead of straight to search results2022-01-24
Pictures swamp focus, making it hard to read link texts and pick what to click2014-03-28
Searching for Skype gives no download link; downloads tab shows an unrelated webcam2012-10-02
Images get cropped to screen width, making content impossible to read on WP72012-10-02
Can't find Office for Mac; navigation labels overlap and confuse where to buy2012-10-02
Clicking See all products forces a sign-up with no way to go back2012-10-02
Switching between responsive homepage and desktop pages confuses mobile users2012-10-02
Clicking a menu link takes you to a separate site, which is confusing2012-10-02
Annoying absolutely positioned elements distract from the actual content2012-06-29
Only the nav and four images are visible on desktop2012-06-29
Hover menus vanish when pointer slips, forcing repeated reselection of items2012-06-29
Text is too large to read comfortably, and useful content is buried below the slideshow2012-06-28
Pages require Silverlight which can't be installed, and links open .docx files instead of webpages2012-02-13
Users can't find downloads and keep looping back to the start page2011-07-31