SharePoint
Document collaboration platform in Productivity & writing
Recommended for document storage and file sharing inside Microsoft 365, with enterprise security controls and tight integration with Office, Teams and OneDrive. Common caveat: cluttered interface and difficult data export.
Recommended for document storage and file sharing inside Microsoft 365, with enterprise security controls and tight integration with Office, Teams and OneDrive. Common caveat: cluttered interface and difficult data export.
131 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 35
- criticize it
- 96
- approval share
- 27%
Recommended in 11 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 35 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 11 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Integrates with Microsoft 365 apps
“it’s a no brainer to stay in the MS ecosystem and use Sharepoint etc…”
Comment from 28 Nov 2025 in “Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?” “most Microsoft 365 products rely on SharePoint in one way or another”
Comment from 8 Jun 2026 in “OneDrive data now has an expiry date” “simply so we can use the integrated share features in word and excel”
Comment from 18 Oct 2026 in “Microsoft Teams is a red flag” - Comment from 29 Nov 2025 in “Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?”
- Comment from 9 Dec 2025 in “Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices”
Reliable document storage and sharing
“the itch was the document repository with some features, and the rest was fluff for purchasing to sign off on.”
Comment from 6 Dec 2025 in “Why "all-in-one" productivity tools confuse new users” “It's not the best, but you can make a link which is for upload-only to a folder and send it to someone”
Comment from 23 Mar 2026 in “Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts” “cloud-storage space integration (SharePoint)”
Comment from 11 Oct 2026 in “Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications” - Comment from 10 Apr 2026 in “France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech”
Better than it used to be
“Finally within the last 1-2 years, SharePoint Online in combination with the various other M365 services (and Azure) is "pretty good".”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch” “SharePoint actually seems like an improvement here, though I'm still on the fence about that.”
Comment from 18 Oct 2026 in “Microsoft Teams is a red flag” “I think I have more love for SharePoint than Teams, and that is a massive concession.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US” - Comment from 9 Sep 2026 in “Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch”
Enterprise security and access controls
“heavily vested in SharePoint, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, etc. specifically for their enterprise controls”
Comment from 29 Sep 2026 in “Dots: Always-on agents” “They might have exquisite delineation for network resources in Sharepoint or Azure”
Comment from 10 Oct 2026 in “Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0” “you want it somewhere that you can enforce security settings”
Comment from 17 May 2026 in “Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Weak integration between Microsoft products
“you've got Sharepoint in there, Office, Skype for Business, and very little consideration seems to have gone into how to make all of those work together seamlessly”
Comment from 15 Nov 2025 in “Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux” “The shenanigans that happen when you 'link' to files, or not, from Teams to Outlook to Sharepoint is beyond me.”
Comment from 7 Jan 2026 in “Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files” Costly storage, hard to export
“SharePoint storage is expensive, and boy what a disaster it is to ever try and get your data out of it.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US” “Everything is stored in mssql server behind the scenes, in the most inefficient way you could imagine.”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “OpenAI Should Build Slack” Hard to find content
“I've never seen it not turn into a steaming pile of shit within months of deployment where nobody can find anything.”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Danish Gov agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence” “The issue is twelve end-users customizing something that produces output, saving it, and now nobody can read it.”
Comment from 5 Aug 2026 in “Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work”
What people said
40 of the 148 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Groove, infopath, publisher, frontpage, SharePoint, various versions of Outlook, the office shortcut bar, photo editor, picture manager - they've all disappeared”
“SharePoint has a clear advantage here.”
“SharePoint actually seems like an improvement here, though I'm still on the fence about that.”
“I'd rather prefer something like SharePoint, but not from Microsoft”
“simply so we can use the integrated share features in word and excel”
“cloud-storage space integration (SharePoint)”
“They might have exquisite delineation for network resources in Sharepoint or Azure”
“heavily vested in SharePoint, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, etc. specifically for their enterprise controls”
“you're better off using Power Apps, Dataverse, SharePoint, Power Automate, etc.”
“Finally within the last 1-2 years, SharePoint Online in combination with the various other M365 services (and Azure) is "pretty good".”
“The fact that Microsoft's customers rushed to it tells you how bad Public Folders were.”
“I guess Sharepoint is decent enough now.”
“They certainly could have done it with our existing systems with SmartSheet, Microsoft Fabric and/or Power Apps with SharePoint for document storage.”
“The issue is twelve end-users customizing something that produces output, saving it, and now nobody can read it.”
“Querying SQL, searching Sharepoint, AWS/Azure CLI, log analysis… etc. Amazing.”
“Their other more complex software like SharePoint or the power platform will be replaced by other solutions in my opinion.”
“most Microsoft 365 products rely on SharePoint in one way or another”
“Using Google Drive / Sharepoint as persistent file storage for ChatGPT enables new agentic capabilities”
“you want it somewhere that you can enforce security settings”
“My company uses Sharepoint, and can digest all of the documents I have access to”
“Although many just use Sharepoint Online.”
“Now it's SharePoint and Office365 and Azure, a utility.”
“Moving to XML blobs for user-defined schemas was the correct choice.”
“It's not the best, but you can make a link which is for upload-only to a folder and send it to someone”
“I've never seen it not turn into a steaming pile of shit within months of deployment where nobody can find anything.”
“many big corp server applications were already written in .NET, products like SharePoint, Sitecore, Optimizely, Dynamics 365”
“Everything is stored in mssql server behind the scenes, in the most inefficient way you could imagine.”
“many don't like Sharepoint, but still they use it”
“SharePoint storage is expensive, and boy what a disaster it is to ever try and get your data out of it.”
“I think I have more love for SharePoint than Teams, and that is a massive concession.”
“Try adding Teams, Sharepoint and 9000 more people in the mix.”
“The shenanigans that happen when you 'link' to files, or not, from Teams to Outlook to Sharepoint is beyond me.”
“OneDrive/Sharepoint ... absolutely”
“Everything is integrated and collaborating is trivial.”
“compromised accounts being used to send phishing content via sharepoint/onedrive is extremely common”
“If you replace office, you'll have to replace sharepoint, onedrive, etc..”
“the itch was the document repository with some features, and the rest was fluff for purchasing to sign off on.”
“365 with SharePoint is basically needed for collaboration”
“it’s a no brainer to stay in the MS ecosystem and use Sharepoint etc…”
“you've got Sharepoint in there, Office, Skype for Business, and very little consideration seems to have gone into how to make all of those work together seamlessly”
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