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Microsoft Copilot
Raised as a usability problem by 100 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2014–2026), in 89 threads.
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Every issue, all time, most people first
Copilot interrupts familiar actions with unwanted prompts to do them differentlyUnreviewed
20142026- Copilot pops up every time the user types a Polish character, forcing them to close it2026-06-28
- Copilot is pushed repeatedly and can't be avoided2026-05-22
- Copilot button pops up every time, interfering with selecting text in Notepad2026-03-20
Copilot is constantly pushed across Office and TeamsUnreviewed
20142026- Meeting recording is tied to Copilot, so turning Copilot off disables recording entirely2026-06-02
- Copilot button in every Microsoft product often can't help or just links to a help page2025-12-27
- Copilot's interface is terrible, tolerated only for its data access2025-11-25
Copilot can't search email and gives unhelpful refusalsUnreviewed
20142026- Outlook repeatedly nags users to try Copilot, which then can't do the promised task2026-05-12
- Copilot in Office sucks and crashes, and later pages don't match earlier output2026-03-29
- Copilot makes a new file to download instead of acting in the open document, breaking workflow2026-03-03
Article links open a full-screen sign-up prompt instead of the pageUnreviewed
20142026- Full-window login popup forces sign-in even though default features work anonymously behind it2026-06-22
- Clicking article links opens a full-screen sign-up prompt instead of the page2026-03-10
- Sign-in button does nothing and sign-in link opens a blank page2024-01-03
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 50 complaints
- Admins can't see which models or tasks are expensive, making it hard to help users2026-10-08
- Web search turned off, so it can only search internal ServiceNow and SharePoint pages2026-09-28
- Code blocks render with stray asterisks until the page is reloaded2026-09-27
- The interface is shockingly terrible and needs heavy custom patching to improve2026-09-26
- Add-ons get enabled silently with no clear way to manage or opt out2026-09-25
- Chat interface is buggy and slow to use2026-09-20
- Documentation is outdated, contradictory and verbose, with four confusing agent approaches2026-07-16
- Copilot pops up every time the user types a Polish character, forcing them to close it2026-06-28
- Full-window login popup forces sign-in even though default features work anonymously behind it2026-06-22
- AI assistant describes steps instead of performing the task, so user still must find the controls2026-06-17
- Reviews deliver issues bit by bit over several runs, adding friction2026-06-15
- Meeting recording is tied to Copilot, so turning Copilot off disables recording entirely2026-06-02
- AI-generated code took long to understand, and changes kept breaking it2026-05-29
- Copilot schedules meetings despite a false time zone warning the user cannot clear2026-05-29
- Setting up any logic is painful; browser UI clicks respond seconds late2026-05-25
- Copilot is pushed repeatedly and can't be avoided2026-05-22
- Colleagues find the built-in Copilot so poor they stopped trusting AI2026-05-19
- Outlook repeatedly nags users to try Copilot, which then can't do the promised task2026-05-12
- Can't sign in with corporate Entra on Mac, only offered a link to web Copilot2026-04-07
- Many products share the Copilot name, so users can't tell which one is meant2026-04-05
- Many products share the Copilot name, so people can't tell which one they have2026-04-05
- Copilot in Office sucks and crashes, and later pages don't match earlier output2026-03-29
- Dismiss options don't stick; the prompt keeps reappearing and activating2026-03-26
- Copilot button pops up every time, interfering with selecting text in Notepad2026-03-20
- Clicking article links opens a full-screen sign-up prompt instead of the page2026-03-10
- Asks users to upload documents instead of explaining that OneDrive files work2026-03-06
- Copilot makes a new file to download instead of acting in the open document, breaking workflow2026-03-03
- Copilot opens unexpectedly from a keyboard shortcut the user cannot identify2026-02-25
- Copilot only uses a spreadsheet as context if it is stored in OneDrive, which is confusing2026-02-08
- Copilot button suggests it knows the open spreadsheet, but it keeps asking for the content2026-02-05
- Employees can't use other AI tools for basic workflows because Copilot is enforced2026-02-05
- Unwanted toolbar takes up space and makes getting work done harder2026-02-05
- Chat area randomly resizes so text is hard to read2026-02-05
- Copilot can't perform email search and gives unhelpful refusals instead of working2026-02-04
- Needs step-by-step hand-holding and garbage output edits, so it's slower than doing it manually2026-02-02
- Gets generic 'Something went wrong' or 'try again later' errors with no useful explanation2026-02-02
- Copilot makes a complete mess of simple spreadsheet tasks, so users never return to it2026-02-02
- Popup reappears every time and steals focus mid-typing2026-01-30
- Setup prompt only offers remind-me-later options, no way to decline2026-01-07
- Can't find how to create a blank spreadsheet; chat box replaces the familiar new-file path2026-01-05
- Copilot fails at formatting tables and finding emails, forcing users to fall back on manual search2026-01-05
- Copilot button in every Microsoft product often can't help or just links to a help page2025-12-27
- Must tell Copilot to open in pages mode every time it launches2025-12-19
- App won't launch reliably, and the accessibility setting it requires won't turn on2025-12-16
- Chat is a poor interface for editing documents and analyzing tables2025-12-09
- Copilot button in New Outlook opens a dropdown with zero items, doing nothing2025-12-08
- Blind user gets no feedback after sending a message on iOS2025-12-08
- UI becomes very laggy and bogs down, making development painful2025-12-03
- Copilot pop-up interrupts students mid-task and they must click back to the program2025-11-30
- Copilot's interface is terrible, tolerated only for its data access2025-11-25