# Microsoft Copilot 139 Hacker News commenters recommended Microsoft Copilot and 776 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 12 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 1 years (4 owners). **Verdict:** Valued for tight Microsoft 365 integration that finds work documents while respecting access permissions; critics dislike Copilot buttons pushed everywhere, confusing branding and made-up links. ## Why people recommend it - Deep Microsoft 365 work integration (5 comments): "it can treat your organisational SharePoint sites and OneDrive locations as sources, but do so in a manner that respects what you as a user has access to" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658791)) "In some ways I don't mind it in onenote because it actually succeeds in finding stuff the search function doesn't." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46493967)) "it's nicely integrated with the wider 365 ecosystem and it has saved me a bunch of time on tedious tasks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46089217)) - Enterprise data security and privacy (4 comments): "it can treat your organisational SharePoint sites and OneDrive locations as sources, but do so in a manner that respects what you as a user has access to" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658791)) "My company, for instance, sent a memo stating we must use Copilot with our corporate accounts for data security." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088820)) "whilst it is very expensive per user it has the benefit of having existing contracts in place" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656961)) - Helpful for talking problems through (4 comments): "Copilot in general seems to encourage reality testing and for me to be careful about attributing other people's reactions to my behaviors" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501989)) "I had a good conversation with copilot about it and I'm sure I'd get better results with a better prompt" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337384)) "My experience is that they (at least copilot) are at least on par, if not better, than self help books." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221699)) - Saves time on tedious tasks (3 comments): "it's pretty rare for it to get all 20, but it's sufficiently faster than opening them up in batches of 50" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375844)) "it's nicely integrated with the wider 365 ecosystem and it has saved me a bunch of time on tedious tasks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46089217)) "30-60 minutes of prompting/reviewing/testing the results can save 5-10x that time if not more for teams" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457074)) ## What people warn about - Copilot buttons forced everywhere (7 comments): "yet another push for LLM use similar to Microsoft putting "Copilot" in every single product of theirs?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802132)) "every app tries to connect to telemetry or hook into Copilot and stumbles when the bloat is not there" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45810047)) "No, i absolutely never in my life will want Copilot to summarize anything for me and yet guess what button appeared in the UI and i accidentally clicked on last night...." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571166)) - Confusing product names and plans (3 comments): "They’ve improved it since the initial launch when the service, model names and plan names all sounded similar and contradictory." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643921)) "It's a feature, not a bug. If nobody can pinpoint which instance is crashing, you can't confidently figure out if you need to cancel the $19/mo, the $30/mo, or the $39/mo SKU. Obfuscation as a service." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650034)) "Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft all have a very confusing product naming strategy where it's all lumped under Gemini/ChatGPT/Copilot" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542774)) - Hallucinated facts and links (3 comments): "It also wanted AI based fact checking, which quickly crumbled once I started asking about hallucinations." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45992032)) "Copilot got the official website and GitHub right, but linked to a presumably fake X account as well." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234482)) "Copilot.com can do the search, but external links are invalid made-up stuff for harder questions" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321459)) - Marketed seriously, disclaimed as entertainment (2 comments): "You can't really call something a "Copilot" (implying it's helping you fly the plane) while simultaneously saying it's just for entertainment." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657583)) "Microsoft is simultaneously running ads saying Copilot can run your business and claiming it's only for entertainment purposes in the EULA" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829369)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Claude](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude.md): 5175 recommend - [Google Gemini](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gemini.md): 2195 recommend - [ChatGPT](https://hackerapproved.com/p/chatgpt.md): 2186 recommend - [Grok](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grok.md): 727 recommend - [Claude Desktop](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-desktop.md): 104 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://copilot.microsoft.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Microsoft Copilot", https://hackerapproved.com/p/microsoft-copilot/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).