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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%
Each figure is one person. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 11 of 13 months

  1. November 2025: recommended
  2. December 2025: recommended
  3. January 2026: recommended
  4. February 2026: recommended
  5. March 2026: recommended
  6. April 2026: recommended
  7. May 2026: recommended
  8. June 2026: recommended
  9. July 2026: recommended
  10. August 2026: not recommended
  11. September 2026: recommended
  12. October 2026: recommended
  13. 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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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”

MixedComment from 23 Oct 2026 in “WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal”

“SharePoint has a clear advantage here.”

RecommendsComment from 18 Oct 2026 in “Microsoft Teams is a red flag”

“SharePoint actually seems like an improvement here, though I'm still on the fence about that.”

MixedComment from 18 Oct 2026 in “Microsoft Teams is a red flag”

“I'd rather prefer something like SharePoint, but not from Microsoft”

MixedComment from 18 Oct 2026 in “Microsoft Teams is a red flag”

“simply so we can use the integrated share features in word and excel”

MixedComment from 18 Oct 2026 in “Microsoft Teams is a red flag”

“cloud-storage space integration (SharePoint)”

MixedComment from 11 Oct 2026 in “Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications”

“They might have exquisite delineation for network resources in Sharepoint or Azure”

RecommendsComment from 10 Oct 2026 in “Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0”

“heavily vested in SharePoint, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, etc. specifically for their enterprise controls”

MixedComment from 29 Sep 2026 in “Dots: Always-on agents”

“you're better off using Power Apps, Dataverse, SharePoint, Power Automate, etc.”

RecommendsComment from 22 Sep 2026 in “Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived”

“Finally within the last 1-2 years, SharePoint Online in combination with the various other M365 services (and Azure) is "pretty good".”

RecommendsComment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch”

“The fact that Microsoft's customers rushed to it tells you how bad Public Folders were.”

MixedComment from 9 Sep 2026 in “Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch”

“I guess Sharepoint is decent enough now.”

MixedComment from 9 Sep 2026 in “Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch”

“They certainly could have done it with our existing systems with SmartSheet, Microsoft Fabric and/or Power Apps with SharePoint for document storage.”

MixedComment from 1 Sep 2026 in “AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too”

“The issue is twelve end-users customizing something that produces output, saving it, and now nobody can read it.”

CriticizesComment from 5 Aug 2026 in “Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work”

“Querying SQL, searching Sharepoint, AWS/Azure CLI, log analysis… etc. Amazing.”

MixedComment from 18 Jul 2026 in “AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making”

“Their other more complex software like SharePoint or the power platform will be replaced by other solutions in my opinion.”

CriticizesComment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Microsoft's Satya Nadella: We Can't Let AI Giants Eat the Economy”

“most Microsoft 365 products rely on SharePoint in one way or another”

MixedComment from 8 Jun 2026 in “OneDrive data now has an expiry date”

“Using Google Drive / Sharepoint as persistent file storage for ChatGPT enables new agentic capabilities”

RecommendsComment from 22 May 2026 on Hacker News

“you want it somewhere that you can enforce security settings”

RecommendsComment from 17 May 2026 in “Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit”

“My company uses Sharepoint, and can digest all of the documents I have access to”

MixedComment from 13 Apr 2026 in “Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone”

“Although many just use Sharepoint Online.”

MixedComment from 10 Apr 2026 in “France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech”

“Now it's SharePoint and Office365 and Azure, a utility.”

MixedComment from 5 Apr 2026 in “Microsoft Hasn't Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold”

“Moving to XML blobs for user-defined schemas was the correct choice.”

RecommendsComment from 24 Mar 2026 in “Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating”

“It's not the best, but you can make a link which is for upload-only to a folder and send it to someone”

MixedComment from 23 Mar 2026 in “Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts”

“I've never seen it not turn into a steaming pile of shit within months of deployment where nobody can find anything.”

CriticizesComment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Danish Gov agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence”

“many big corp server applications were already written in .NET, products like SharePoint, Sitecore, Optimizely, Dynamics 365”

MixedComment from 24 Feb 2026 in “Ladybird Browser adopts Rust”

“Everything is stored in mssql server behind the scenes, in the most inefficient way you could imagine.”

CriticizesComment from 15 Feb 2026 in “OpenAI Should Build Slack”

“many don't like Sharepoint, but still they use it”

MixedComment from 4 Feb 2026 in “AI Is Killing B2B SaaS”

“SharePoint storage is expensive, and boy what a disaster it is to ever try and get your data out of it.”

CriticizesComment from 3 Feb 2026 in “France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US”

“I think I have more love for SharePoint than Teams, and that is a massive concession.”

MixedComment from 3 Feb 2026 in “France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US”

“Try adding Teams, Sharepoint and 9000 more people in the mix.”

MixedComment from 7 Jan 2026 in “Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files”

“The shenanigans that happen when you 'link' to files, or not, from Teams to Outlook to Sharepoint is beyond me.”

CriticizesComment from 7 Jan 2026 in “Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files”

“OneDrive/Sharepoint ... absolutely”

RecommendsComment from 5 Jan 2026 in “Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app"”

“Everything is integrated and collaborating is trivial.”

RecommendsComment from 9 Dec 2025 in “Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices”

“compromised accounts being used to send phishing content via sharepoint/onedrive is extremely common”

MixedComment from 8 Dec 2025 in “Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices”

“If you replace office, you'll have to replace sharepoint, onedrive, etc..”

MixedComment from 8 Dec 2025 in “Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices”

“the itch was the document repository with some features, and the rest was fluff for purchasing to sign off on.”

MixedComment from 6 Dec 2025 in “Why "all-in-one" productivity tools confuse new users”

“365 with SharePoint is basically needed for collaboration”

RecommendsComment from 29 Nov 2025 in “Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?”

“it’s a no brainer to stay in the MS ecosystem and use Sharepoint etc…”

RecommendsComment from 28 Nov 2025 in “Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?”

“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”

MixedComment from 15 Nov 2025 in “Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux”

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