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Microsoft develops software, hardware and cloud services, including the Windows operating system and Office suite. The company also produces Surface devices, Xbox consoles and Azure cloud solutions. Since 1975, Microsoft has served both the consumer and enterprise markets.
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Reviewed Aug. 22, 2025
Horrible. They keep fraudulently pulling money out of my account. There is zero customer service for the phone. Online customer service told me I am being charged for a university account - am definitely NOT a university student. I have asked for call backs from senior management to rectify the situation and to get my money back as this has been happening for months now. No call backs at all. They just keep running me around in circles. How did they even get this account information? I never consented to it. Microsoft is fraudulently taking $73 out of my account every single month. For about 6 months now. It’s impossible to get ahold of someone and when you finally do, they are useless.
Reviewed Aug. 21, 2025
For a company as enormous as Microsoft, one would imagine that the customer support would be sourced in such a manner as to minimize fraud from third party vendors. Today, I was almost defrauded by gentlemen purporting to represent Microsoft. I initially called Microsoft customer service to discuss subscriptions. I was directed to persons in a foreign country who asked me, after much chatter, what banks did I use. My husband advised me to hang up the phone. I did. Microsoft, please do better. Your customer base is quite large. We are in our 70s and do no appreciate this level of uncertainty when doing business. You can email us to follow-up.
Reviewed Aug. 20, 2025
My account got hacked and even though there was plenty of evidence and proof they said they couldn’t overturn it, and anything that was purchased on that account was completely lost. This happens after I sat through support for hours and was promised it would be fixed.
Reviewed Aug. 2, 2025
This is a stupid service. It is very slow and it has too many updates. I wish this highly mediocre company would change. It takes too long to download programs. Everyday, you get stupid messages. It is hard to deal with faulty apps too.
Reviewed July 18, 2025
I just bought a new computer to upgrade to Windows 11. This is the most complicated, frustrating, helter skelter piece of garbage you people have made so far. You have had decades to produce a simple, user friendly, functional operating system and you come up with this garbage? Shame on you incompetent morons!
Reviewed July 12, 2025
If I purchased a particular year Microsoft Office, then I should be able to continue to use that year even if it is two years later. All this company cares about is the "all mighty dollar". Not their customers. Would give negative stars if possible!!!
Reviewed July 9, 2025
Gates must have blown all of his wealth on Epstein Island because he sure didn't put it into his products. 4th computer in 3 years, right off the box updates for hours and runs slower than my 90s dial-ups. Email? Lol, I can get USPS mail sent faster.
Reviewed July 9, 2025
The sleep option is a suggestion and it's built into the program to just turn off your computer because that never occurred to them would cause any problems to anyone to randomly turn off your computer. It's a garbage company and a garbage computer
Reviewed June 22, 2025
Unreliable hardware. Seemingly designed to fail. Oo. 1 year has passed. Systems begin to fail. It'll cost you money to fix. Who knows what system will need to be repaired next. Not to mention their absolutely terrible customer service. Good luck getting ahold of them.
Reviewed June 18, 2025
Microsoft is the most controlling, demanding, greedy, tyrannical, self serving company of any company anywhere, only google can compete with it's corrupt practices. How is it that they (Microsoft) are allowed to FORCE people to use what they want them to use? How is it that they can legally COST people money by making a new operating system that makes software purchased by the consumer redundant and unusable? How is it that they can refuse to make themselves available to their consumers when they (the consumer) has issues with their products?
When is this company going to be held accountable and forced to change their practices AND compensate their consumers for what they (Microsoft) has cost them? Microsoft is the most reprehensible company in the world and regularly BUYS their way out of trouble and law suits. If ANYONE individual or small company did what microsoft (and google) did, they'd be in prison!

Reviewed June 17, 2025
What an awful company. Lost a major file I was working on as a result of their systems crash on 6/12/25. No way to talk to a live person and online support is useless. They're getting ready to roll out Windows 11 as if nothing at all has happened. I'm sorry this company exists. I give their performance one star because zero wasn't an option.
Reviewed June 16, 2025
Such a controlling company. Forces you to sign up and set up for uses you do not want. Terrible customer service, cannot talk to a real person. Constant unexplained program errors. Such a corrupt and greedy company.
Reviewed June 16, 2025
I cannot reach any live person to speak with at this place. Took my payment and still asking for more new payment to upgrade. I DO NOT WANT TO TALK WITH A COMPUTER!!!! How can I reach a live person and not a blasted computer????

Reviewed June 9, 2025
I have been fighting Windows 11 since I got it. Now my system goes into restart over and over. On the phone with someone in another country (texting since you can't talk to anyone). They said to do everything I already did. Now there stating I have to get a technician to remove and reinstall Windows 11. Why should I have to pay again for Microsoft 11 when it's there program causing this. This just sucks! They gave a link to fix, you go into the link on the phone since the computer does not work. Download file and then it tells you no file found.

Reviewed June 7, 2025
Microsoft made it close to impossible or purposefully makes it extremely difficult to get support. They say they have a warranty for their products but they purposefully make it impossible to work on warranty issues. This is deceptive practice.
Reviewed May 8, 2025
For the past two years, I’ve struggled with an ongoing issue with Microsoft. Recently, I spent about 10 hours discussing this with indifferent support staff. While they quickly charge my card for the annual subscription, their payment processing is flawed. After my wife changed her credit card, somehow, they still charged us the fee and applied it to an inactive account.
Despite reaching out for help, I had to explain the problem repeatedly, suggesting they don’t log our conversations. They raised my subscription price without notice, and I’ve overpaid because of their mistakes. They refunded my last $99 payment and promised a credit, but only gave me one month of coverage before canceling. I decided to stop using Microsoft and wanted to download my files from the past three years. However, they refused access unless I purchased a new subscription, despite those files being created when my account was active. Now, I'm locked out of my resume and important schoolwork, risking their loss unless I pay for a subscription. It's frustrating that a public company would hold my personal files hostage like this.
Reviewed May 2, 2025
They upgraded my plan and cost without talking or communicating with me in any way. I was just notified that my plan was upgraded from basic at 69.99 to premium or whatever they call it @ 99.99. They hide and change info without communication. Do not use or buy.
Reviewed April 26, 2025
I have been having problems with my Microsoft account for years. At first I tried talking to the regular call line, then supervisor. Now can't even call a human. At this point I am ready to give up on Microsoft and everything screwing up everything I have that depends on it.
Reviewed April 22, 2025
Avoid MS Windows 11 machines. Unscheduled updates can take up to an hour, during your work day. Our staff wastes countless hours down waiting on updates. We're done with Microsoft after 30 years of use. Co. has turned into crap.
Reviewed April 8, 2025
The worst company ever, the customer service is very, very bad. You pay money for products, and they don't work. Microsoft has someone call you from another country who speaks English fluently, you can't understand them, and they can't understand you. It is a lose-lose situation. You may end up hanging up, yelling at them, or being transferred to someone who does not speak or understand English. A class action lawsuit needs to be brought against this company. They are scammers. You pay for a service or product that doesn't work, but they constantly take your money.
Reviewed March 29, 2025
Learn Linux, you might struggle at the beginning but you will waste much less time than using a Windows 11. The program is glitchy, crashes. Microsoft tried to lie to me and tell me there is something wrong with my CPU but I've tried several CPUs and it's just windows OS that is breaking everything. What an absolutely terrible experience. Microsoft takes no responsibility.
Reviewed March 21, 2025
I kept getting the message, "Your one drive is out of space." So I bought a yearly subscription to Office 365 with 1 TB of space. Now all my one note pages that were on my Samsung phone are completely gone, gone, gone! Also, there is no One Drive recycle bin available to me nor is there a OneNote recycle bin! Thanks Microsoft for taking my money and making things worse!!!!
Reviewed March 9, 2025
It's absolutely ridiculous when you purchase a game and play it to then be told multiplayer is disabled when I am trying to play by myself but I can't because I have to pay 20$ to play a game offline after already paying 20$ for the game itself. What the heck. I'm done with Microsoft if I can't even play a single player Minecraft world without paying 20$ a month after paying 20$ for the game. It should be illegal. I paid 20$ and cannot play unless I pay 20$ per month for a game I plan to play in single player.
Reviewed Feb. 27, 2025
MFA Account Issue: Ticket (**). I was locked out of my Microsoft Office 365 business account. The lady who helped me with this ticket was not helpful at all for the following reasons:
1.) I could not understand her at all, I am an english speaking individual and could barely understand her when speaking to me explaining the problem.
2) On the 24th she mentioned that she was going to reset my MFA and I would be able to login by tonight, she also mentioned she would send me an email. I received zero email or communication responses she did not reset anything.
3.) I called into the 18008659408 to complain again that I had still not been able to access my account after 5 days. She then called me the morning for the 27th to say that it was reset. Magically everything was working. My issue is that she makes false promises to customers and does not follow up on it or do what she says she is going to do. This has resulted my entire business email to be down for 5+ days.
4.) Additionally to this she called me on 2 occasions and I told her to call me back in 15min so I could get to a better place to take the call. No callbacks after confirming on two occasions she would call back.
5.) How does it take 5 days to sort out a MFA issue, my business has been offline from emails for 5 days because of this.
6.) The support numbers don't help at all, none of the commercial business support numbers can assist me with this issue on the phone, every single one of them arranged for a call back the next day. This is a major issue because the person who is supposed to be arranged for the call back has no urgency.
7.) If the technician can't call me why can't they just send an email - I asked 3 times to change my primary source of contact to be set to email instead of phone call after eventually giving up that the call would resolve anything.
This whole situation has put an extremely bad taste in my mouth - I do not ever leave reviews but I have gone out my way to write this review with how bad the service and support has been. MFA taking 5+ days to resolve?

Reviewed Feb. 12, 2025
My laptop shows "Bitlocker" when I boot it. It asks for the recovery code to remove the Bitlocker. I logged-in on another computer and found the locked laptop with the serial number. When I clicked on the lapped computer to access the recovery code; it only showed me computers that were not the Bitlocked one... time to but a Google Chrome book! Suck it Microsoft!
Reviewed Feb. 12, 2025
I canceled my Microsoft subscription in spring of 2023. Fast forward to late summer and I ended up incapacitated for quite some time. Imagine my surprise (FEBRUARY 2025) when I receive an email advising of price increase. For a subscription I CANCELED TWO YEARS AGO. Just now waiting for a customer service representative to call back and when they did, they chose not to reply to hello. Remained on the line for a minute. I called back and got nowhere. They called back again after my second submission for a call back and proceeded to play more games. Run from Microsoft as far and as fast as you can.
Reviewed Jan. 22, 2025
When I initially loaded Windows 10 and 11 in each of my 3 computers, it asked me for permission to access my location. I declined this request in all cases. And yet, on all 3 computers, I am being fed local news snippets from the force-fed "Discover" app. If Microsoft has been denied permission to access my location, how/why is it accessing it anyway? AKA, why ask if you're going to ignore my answer? To make things even more questionable, when I went today to Microsoft's complaint department to ask this question, before they would answer they wanted me to register a credit card and pay 5$ for the privilege. Can anyone make sense of this for me?
Reviewed Jan. 10, 2025
Terrible service! Impossible to buy! Only subscription and expensive at that! 100 verifications! They ask for serial numbers of computers - this is complete nonsense! It's a terrible and complicated dashboard. Word - does not work (I can't edit or collage)!

Reviewed Jan. 8, 2025
I have a subscription that I am being charged twice for. While calling, an automated message states it can share the information I give with other countries. Customer service kept asking if I had 2 accounts, and I kept relaying that I do not. This has been going on since August. The rep told me to dispute this with my bank. Microsoft is committing fraud and refuses to look into this.
Reviewed Jan. 4, 2025
Can't verify my email... I can answer literally every question. But can't verify through no fault of my own. My number was given away by the cellular company while I was deployed and now I cannot use the account or play the games that I paid for. But thanks for telling me I can always open a new account and repay for it! Great idea Bill Gates. How about you send me the money and I will gladly do that.
Reviewed Dec. 24, 2024
I am closing my Hotmail account since Microsoft has taken over. What a headache this has caused. When they first switched over I lost very important emails that are gone which made me have to start over on several accounts. Now I am locked out of my email account! OMG. You don't know what you're doing!
Reviewed Dec. 12, 2024
Microsoft is making it extremely difficult to 'freeze' updates on its Office 365 product. Normal industry practice, made essential by recent Microsoft lack of quality control on updates, delays installation of all but extremely critical security updates to a product until enough time has passed to allow the community to identify any significant flaw in a new version or product update. Microsoft makes this extremely difficult since they (a) seem to release patches to Office 365 every 2 weeks or so, and (b) will not permit their auto-update tool to be paused, configured to only check manually for updates, and (c) Will not permit the auto-update tool to be configured to a less volatile update channel. I have been through the Microsoft Support cycle on this issue without adequate resolution.
Reviewed Dec. 11, 2024
17 years been saving game clips, Xbox decided to remove my saved clips without telling me. Just someone over there at Microsoft. Please return my game clips Or I will be asking for a Refund for seventeen years

Reviewed Nov. 28, 2024
Always liked and trusted Microsoft - until now... You have got to be kidding!!! My admin rights were changed without my knowledge, thereby making it impossible for me to access my own account! That's very troubling!!! Additionally, your ridiculously obscure and fragmented support protocol has made it impossible to resolve this. I have been unable to effectively connect with your Data Protection Team... weeks of back and forth phone calls... messages left by reps canot be returned... the misspelling my email address has your attempts to reach me go unanswered.
On the few occasions we did speak, I was put through a series of repetitive questions and re-telling of my story - each tech claiming to be "the one" to resolve my issue...Guess what - it is still unresolved. The original issue alone is very troubling - but your impossible communication platform prohibits bringing this to an end. What can I say? Not expecting such an inferior level of service from Microsoft. It's obvious you don't care... Seriously disappointing!
Reviewed Nov. 6, 2024
Windows 11 is the worst OS! In my opinion, it's Vista's little sister. Yesterday, a very important document in my personal vault disappeared, and I know I didn't delete that document. Today, an important accounting folder in my personal drive disappeared, and I know I didn't delete that folder. Microsoft, your OS is sloppy and destructive! Your company doesn't even deserve a rating of 1.
Reviewed Nov. 3, 2024
I've been using Microsoft since DOS and all has gone well - except lately. Microsoft always delivered products that were useful. They worked to constantly improve them and the improvements made sense - until now. Now Microsoft is shoving things down our throes, things that will generate money for them. They don't give us the ability to deny what they are forcing on us. I don't want to have to pay to back up all my data on their cloud. I already have a clod backup that I can control and am very happy with. And as for AI - I have no interest in climbing on the band wagon. Then there's all the problems they've caused with their upgrades. Microsoft is starting to act like Boeing - money first, quality later. Where is Gates when you need him?
Reviewed Oct. 31, 2024
On September 29th, my Microsoft account was hacked, and fraudulent charges totaling $155 were made. The hacker purchased Xbox and Microsoft gift cards ($60, $45, and $50 respectively). I promptly reported this incident to my bank, and they initially refunded me and disputed the charges. However, I was shocked to find that Microsoft apparently provided "proof" that led to my bank reversing the credits. It's obvious the gift cards were cashed because someone stole money from my account. Yet, Microsoft clearly failed to investigate who actually redeemed these gift cards or check the IP addresses involved—none of which were linked to me. Despite this, I am now being forced to pay for fraudulent transactions I did not authorize.
After this reversal, I attempted to reach out to Microsoft for a resolution, but the support system has been a nightmare. Your support menus loop endlessly, and when I finally managed to connect to a live agent, I was directed to submit a claim form—only to find the form submission button permanently grayed out. I tried every suggestion provided by the live agent, yet nothing worked. Eventually, the agent offered to escalate the matter directly, but their response did absolutely nothing to help. I am incredibly disappointed in Microsoft's lack of support for customers facing security breaches. I need an immediate resolution to this issue. I am not responsible for these charges, and I expect Microsoft to address this case properly, investigate the transactions thoroughly, and refund the stolen funds. Here is the email “Help” I received:
"Dear Gamer, I hope this email finds you well. This is Imane E from Microsoft Xbox Support. Thank you for contacting us and giving us the opportunity to help you fix your concern. I hope I met your expectations on this interaction. It has been a pleasure. As per the chat conversation we had about the refund request, this is a formal follow-up to your case. I have received an update from the designated team.
Upon further review, it appears that the unauthorized purchases were made on September 29th, which falls outside the 14-day window for eligible refunds. Additionally, we are unable to process your request as the Gift card purchases have already been redeemed, and our policy does not support refunds for redeemed tokens. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that you have experienced, and I appreciate your understanding and patience while this problem was investigated. If any other issues arise, you may contact Xbox Customer Support and one of our support representatives will be happy to provide further assistance. Note: - You may receive an email saying that your case has been closed. But don't worry, this is just an automated email sent at the end of the chat - I would like to thank you once again for your time and cooperation. Sincerely yours. Imane E. Microsoft Xbox Support."
THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!! Is there another email address to reach out to?? A phone number?? Something??
Reviewed Oct. 29, 2024
For two years in a row, I was charged $99.99 for a Microsoft subscription that I neither understood nor wanted. When I realized the charge, I struggled with the cumbersome cancellation process, which required signing into an account whose email I had long forgotten. Microsoft offers no direct way to dispute charges by email, and their automated phone system repeatedly disconnected me, telling me to go online. Only when I selected the option to make a new purchase did I finally reach a representative, after an hour on hold, who informed me a refund was impossible since it was past their 30-day limit. Even after requesting a supervisor and being told the issue would be escalated, I am still waiting for a response. Microsoft’s support system is incredibly frustrating, and they seem more focused on taking payments than providing adequate service or support.
Reviewed Oct. 21, 2024
Absolute trash. Why would I pay 99 dollars for a decades old program that has been paid for with almost every computer purchased in the decades previous. Someone needs to come out with a quality program that is purchasable for life. Period. This is absolute ignorance to buy a program every year or even more than once. This is manufactured by the people that require the constant updates. That is a manufacturer issue and should not fall on the shoulders of the consumer. done with MS. This company surely should have gone under long ago. Clearly people don't care about their money or this crap would NOT fly.

Reviewed Oct. 8, 2024
"**Mixed Feelings About Microsoft Products and Customer Experience** As someone who's passionate about reviewing products across various industries—from software to restaurants and sports—I've always admired the innovative features that Microsoft products bring to the table. Their software undoubtedly makes productivity easier, and I love how they continue to push the boundaries of technology. However, my recent experiences with Microsoft have left me feeling frustrated. Despite the potential of their products, I’ve faced recurring issues with accessing them. My product key has inexplicably become invalid more than once, disrupting my ability to use the software I've paid for. This has happened with three separate computers, and each time, I found myself locked out because I no longer had the key code.
As a loyal customer who genuinely enjoys Microsoft’s products, it's disheartening to invest in features I can’t fully use due to technical setbacks. I strongly urge Microsoft to improve its user experience to better serve customers like myself, who rely on their software for everyday tasks. My goal as a product reviewer is to highlight not just the strengths of a product but also areas where improvements are needed. I believe companies can do better, and I look forward to seeing Microsoft take that step forward."
Reviewed Sept. 23, 2024
Wish there was something below 1 star. I have been trying to resolve a problem with my Microsoft account for two and a half hours. Can't get to a person or chat option and none of the multiple sites I was sent to were in any way helpful. Honestly, the worst customer service ever and that includes airlines and phone providers.
Reviewed Sept. 18, 2024
The only reason I gave two stars is because the rep did his best at helping me and he is not to blame. The massive issue lies in Microsoft's failure to fix the problem on a programming level. I worked on my email draft for almost a week, as a lot of research was involved. All I had to do is attach a few images from my phone. So I used my iphone app and instead of attaching an image, I accidentally clicked on event attachment. So I closed it. Instead of just removing the event, the whole email draft was deleted! Without any warning. Zero logic involved. So, I thought ok, it's probably in my drafts. Nope, it wasn't. Checked the deleted folder, not there either. Checked the junk, sent, recoverable, NOT ANYWHERE!!!!
The fact that closing an event deletes the whole email FROM EVERY SINGLE PLACE is an actual thing, is UNFATHOMABLE! I can delete picture attachments, but clearly event attachments come with EGREGIOUS, IRREVERSIBLE consequences without any information, logic or warning. Are you guys ok??? This is unacceptable! I spent ONE HOUR on 3 phone calls and almost TWO hours on live text trying to understand how to possibly undo this crazy situation, IF I AM LUCKY after doing that 3-4 times within a 24 hrs period. Not to mention that you clearly outsource your customer service to India and there is a language barrier which complicates the process even more.
I googled this issue and seems like endless other people have had the same problem forever now, yet NOTHING has been done to fix such a huge failure. It's like closing a car window and your whole car shuts off mid driving, just because you closed one window. And then the dealership makes you run diagnostics 3-4 times within a day to MAYBE fix the issue. It's YOUR JOB TO ELIMINATE THE ISSUE FROM HAPPENING, NOT THE USER'S JOB TO DEAL WITH WAYS TO FIX YOUR FAILURES through torture and wasted time. It's 2024. Get it together, Microsoft. Erasing an event attachment should have nothing to do with erasing the whole email from EVERY FILE IMAGINABLE FOREVER. It's insanity and complete inadequacy on your part! Switching to gmail from now when it comes to anything important, until there is a public announcement about this issue being fixed. You have failed us.
Reviewed Sept. 12, 2024
My computer was hacked. Got it up & running with new security. But can’t access any MS375 programs. Repeatedly tried the online support but they can’t identify me. There are NO alternatives so I can’t open Excel, Word, Outlook, etc. Frustrating. How can a company get away with this? HELP!
Reviewed Sept. 10, 2024
I am writing to express my extreme disappointment and frustration with Microsoft's handling of a recent data loss incident involving my OneNote account. After years of relying on OneNote as a trusted platform for storing and organizing critical information, I was devastated to discover that five years of my data had been corrupted and lost due to a server failure. Despite the severity of the situation, I was disheartened by the lack of urgency and concern exhibited by Microsoft. It felt as though my individual loss was merely a minor inconvenience, and there was little empathy or understanding for the significant impact this has had on my productivity and personal life.
I believe that Microsoft should take greater responsibility for ensuring the security and reliability of its cloud-based services. The loss of five years of data is not a minor issue, and it is imperative that they implement more robust measures to prevent such catastrophic failures from occurring in the future. I urge Microsoft to reevaluate its approach to customer support and data recovery. Customers who have invested time and trust in their products deserve a higher level of service and accountability.
Reviewed Sept. 5, 2024
Your personal information and money is not safe with Microsoft. I had an unused account that was breached and used to make fraudulent purchases for gift cards on the Microsoft store. Rather than identifying who redeemed the cards and refunding my account, Microsoft refused to seek any solution.
Reviewed July 20, 2024
Awful product. The customer service is worse! Not to mention the company gets hacked every 2 weeks and they give your info out! I am writing a review of Microsoft on microsoft but hello they are an awful company.
Reviewed July 19, 2024
Worst scamming company ever. You kicked me out of my MS account when I attempted to change our email. Now in order to get back in you automatically CUT OFF my use of all Microsoft products for 30 days. And after FOUR FREAKING hours on the chat with TWO non English speaking reps, I have to pay $9.99 to get back in to Office!! I paid for the full year!!!!
Reviewed July 16, 2024
Similar issue to those I've seen others report on here--the customer service is horrendous. I got locked out of my account for the stated reason that there had been "too many failed log in attempts" and even after I've tried to reset my password, it still happens again and again. Contacting customer service for account recovery apparently has to be done online but you're unable to successfully do it, because you can't enter enough "information" to satisfy that you own the account. Trying to call them gets an automated service and saying "representative" will not get you one; eventually the automated service says "I can't help you, have a good day" and hangs up. I tried calling back and it must have recognized the number because it said the same thing and hung up.
Finally tried on a 3rd number and was able to find a sales support number by searching online--was able to finally talk to a human who said she'd transfer me to a representative for my account--was on hold for 10 mins, she came back on, thanked me for my patience, said they're trying to secure a representative. Went on hold again--20 mins later finally supposedly got one--she supposedly transferred me and no one picked up, the line was silent--after 5 mins it hung up. Total garbage with their customer service. Have been using them for 20 years and will find another email provider.
Reviewed May 23, 2024
Horrible! First of all, when I see a game I like or it looks fun and I download it it doesn't work because it's not on the Microsoft store. This makes me VERY upset because they don't have much games or they all or mostly paying! Another reason is with the family asking thing that you have to ask a parent or person to accept your request just to try a website! It's annoying especially if it's really good! Another one is that they take SOOOO long just to LOAD!
Reviewed May 21, 2024
Horrible customer support and puts family features on an account that never had family features. I would never recommend this horrible company to anyone. This company is the worst I've ever seen by far.
Reviewed May 6, 2024
My experience is still happening. I just lived through the first night of not being able to work from home due to Microsoft mishaps and it is frustrating to have no control because I can’t remember age old password that I never really had to use because I do not use my outlook accounts unless it has to do with Microsoft. So of course I filled in enough information several times and have received several codes via email. Should be end of story but after you get the code the system still does not let you reset the password.
I called one of the many numbers. Sounded like I called another country. Guy with thick accent told me to answer when IT calls. There was no such call. I have never experienced anything like this when needing to reset my password to get access to my own computer that I bought and paid for because Microsoft made unauthorized changes to my security and I got exactly no notification at all for this change. Google always send notifications especially in regards to security with instructions for if I did not make this change. It’s now day 2. I’m on pins and needles waiting for 9:00 to call headquarters. That 24/7 support is a lie!

Reviewed April 27, 2024
It is really bad when it is easier to pirate their software than use your legitimate license purchased from them. Gave up after hours trying to use my real license and had it up in 3 minutes with pirated version that downloads all the updates and no nag screens. Get it together Microsoft or you'll push folks to stop buying your software.
Reviewed April 15, 2024
Surprise on tax day. Cannot use my computer, as much as I try to schedule updates, each update changes those settings. Updates seem to come every week. I am locked out again as Microsoft updates and cleans windows.
Reviewed April 11, 2024
After my personal email account got hacked I started trying to regain access to it I've tried to recover it for some time now. I have filled out the recovery form several times with all the pertinent and correct information, but their automated system keeps telling me that I didn't provide enough information to prove account ownership. When I tried to call customer service to talk with a representative that automated system kept hanging up on me. Very disappointed in the customer of Microsoft, and their apparently only method of account recovery, which is online. I actually like the Windows operating system, but Microsoft needs to get in the game at learning what customer service means. After this experience I seriously doubt they will get a recommendation from me.
Reviewed April 10, 2024
I only gave a ⭐ cause it didn't give me the option to choose zero. So about 2 years ago, I got my grandson a game pack for his Xbox, my card declined the transactions, a week or two later, Microsoft sends the transaction through again, yet the game pack wasn't received. Since then they have been randomly been taking money from my checking account in the amounts of $4.99, $9.99 and even $69.99. When I finally got a customer service number, it instructed me to open my Microsoft account, which I have never had one. I called the bank and was issued a new card, new number and this morning these thieves have got me for another $16.99. My bank claims that if they don't have the new card info, that I must have given them the account info, and I didn't do that. So yes, I believe they are wronging a lot of unsuspecting people.
Reviewed April 4, 2024
I have been locked out of my account for 4 months. Tried to get customer service to help but waited on hold for hours with no resolution. I do not wish to renew any of Microsoft products. This poor customer service. Leaving customers no way to reach them. I've tried to do a password reset and failed. Both emails I have on file works and neither does my phone number. Please don't take renewal fees from my PayPal account.
Reviewed March 14, 2024
BUYER BEWARE - MICROSOFT ARE CROOKS - FRAUD AND DECEPTION. I made a $91.20 credit card purchase from Direct Buy Microsoft December 2, 2023. I canceled the order within 5 minutes of placing it. I received an email stating that the order had shipped. I received another email stating to refuse/decline the order and I would receive a credit card refund. Order was declined, return to shipper. March 9, 2024, I received an email from Microsoft stating they refuse to refund my credit card account. Microsoft has their merchandise and refuse to refund me. Working with Bank for a Refund.
Reviewed March 10, 2024
I received notification from Microsoft that my Hotmail email account storage space was full. Microsoft advised me to upgrade my storage space or create space by deleting large files in my OneDrive. I decided to delete most of the large files. Initially, l was refused access to delete the large files. After several attempts and visits to my phone company for assistance, l was able to delete almost of the large files on the OneDrive. Still has no access. Microsoft has continued to engage in malicious and unethical business practices to force me to purchase a subscription or refused me access to my email account. This is unfortunate and unbelievable! This company is unscrupulous.
Reviewed Feb. 28, 2024
I signed up for a free trial and was charged. I have been trying to get my money back but they have the worst technical support team. I genuinely can't get my money back because none of the support systems they have actually work, this company just likes to steal people's money I suppose. I will not be using any Microsoft products ever again unless I receive my money that was stolen from this company.

Reviewed Feb. 22, 2024
I canceled my Microsoft Visio Plan 2 on April 2, 2023. I have an image snapshot of the cancellation receipt. However, every month I still get emails saying I am to be billed. On top of this, I received another email on 2/20/2024, that I launched a new Microsoft Visio plan 2. I did not do this. I have had to call my bank several times about these unethical bill charges from Microsoft. I get Microsoft 365 and pay for that, but I am not paying for Microsoft Visio when I can't even use the software application. I try to open Microsoft Visio and it says I need to purchase a subscription. I have an image snapshot of this message. However, I was supposed to have ordered and launched another plan on 2/20/2024. Again, I did not reorder this and I do not want Microsoft Visio. Something is wrong with Microsoft Visio emails and subscriptions.
Reviewed Jan. 15, 2024
I have deactivated my Facebook after seeing too many friends get hacked. But, I have temporarily activated it in hopes to post and get some traction about a Microsoft issue that has been ongoing for many months. I purchased a Microsoft Surface Pro 8 PC about a year ago and have loved it, except for a camera issue. After a fresh reboot, the camera works fine. But after a day or two, it starts to lock up and cannot be used for unlocking the device anymore (aka Windows Hello), and instead I have to enter my pin to unlock it.
After a few more days, it ends up completely freezing the PC and shows @BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), with an error code of "iacamera64.sys". Obviously, a non-functioning camera is not acceptable if video conferencing is a required feature, in addition to the inconvenience of not being able to unlock with a feature they promote. But what's worse is when you're working on something and your PC completely locks up w/ the BSOD. I have contacted and interacted with Microsoft over 20 times, and fortunately started to keep a log of our interactions after the 3rd or so, after having followed the troubleshooting directions they supplied.
In contacting Microsoft, they have been friendly, but still have not resolved the issue, and thus have wasted a TON of my time. At one point, they "warrantied" the device, but ended up sending me an inferior device with lower specs. I just so happened to be looking at the About page and noticed the specs, then looked back at my receipt from when I purchased and realized it. Clearly they didn't tell me I would be getting a device with lower specs. All of these details are in the log (specs timestamped for 1/7/24). Hopefully Microsoft will do the right thing and actually provide a resolution, rather than just empty promises.
Below is the log: 9/11/23 - I sent the device in under warranty for issues with the camera. Same Unit Repair Order # **. Leo said that it would the repairs would be warrantied, so in case it did not fix the issue, it would still be taken care of. 10/13 - Received a shipping label for Device Replacement after the repair did not work. Order Number **. 10/26 - Since one of the reps had been communicating with me through my preferred email of ** I did not see the shipping label that had been sent to ** until 10/26. But that rep said it was expired. I later found out that it wasn't expired, since it expires after 30 days, but it was only 13 days at that point.
Cris ** attempted to create a new order, Order number: **. 10/29 - Cris wrote back saying that there was a system glitch and that the order was canceled, possibly due to a tool being updated recently. 10/30 - Mon 10/30/2023 7:11 PM - Cris said, "…We rest assured you that once it's back up and running, we will process the replacement for your Surface Pro 8." 11/4 - Cris asked me to make a new MS account. 11/6 - Cris confirmed that this would contribute to the processing of this order, the replacement of the device.
11/7 - I created a new MS account, ** and informed Cris. 11/10 - I sent the verification code, apologizing since I thought I'd sent it sooner. 11/13 - I emailed Cris again, asking for an update. 11/14 - Started a new chat with a rep - Request # **. I was told that I would be sent a shipping label. 11/15 - After 24 hours, I'd not heard anything, I started a new chat and got connected with Hamid, who ensured that I would receive a shipping label about 24 hours later. Tracking number: **.
12/1 8pm- Chatted w/ Gleza **. Checked on status. Issue was escalated: escalation case number: **. 12/5 - Received the PC (traced back and looked at sign-in history, since I didn't write it down initially) and tested out the functionality over the span of about a week. Found that it was still doing the same as before, with the camera still freezing up.
12/12 9pm - Chatted w/ Gleza ** again. I explained to Gleza: "I have received the PC, which is the same device I had previously. I was told that if they could not fix it, that they would replace it with a new device. This was the 2nd repair attempt made, but the camera is still freezing up." Replacement ordered - Order number: **. 12/15 - Shipped the laptop back. Tracking **. Estimated delivery Wed 12/20.
12/21 - Device shipped. UPS Tracking: ** eta 9pm 12/26. **. Delivered around 7pm 12/26. New Serial: **. 1/1/2024 - The new device started to do the same thing, with the camera locking up. 1/2/2024 9pm - Contacted support: Mar ** said since the issue has been ongoing, we can do a refund or replace with a new Surface Pro 8. I opted for the new, in hopes that it could be resolved. "Within 24-72 business hours you will receive an email from our Extended Support Team about our request for brand new."
1/4/24 4:15pm - Mar replied to my email asking for an update, saying they would contact me. 1/7/24 - I emailed Mar pointing out that I'd just realized that the replacement device they sent was one with LOWER SPECS than I'd purchased, yet nobody even said anything about that. I'd purchased: i7, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD. I received: i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB. That seems dishonest…
1/11/24 - I emailed again, asking for an update, but no response. 1/15/24 9:50am After posting on social media (FB, twitter), started chat - Case: **. Rafik ** - transferred. Sparshitha H N - Office Accounts and Billing and Office and Windows Up and Running dept - supposedly Windows Team for BSOD support - transferred. Mae ** - Office and Windows Technical Support for desktop apps - "Since you had already underwent the process of replacing your computer with the Surface Department, it is best if I connect you back to them for they have the record on that process and have the right tool and knowledge regarding on this Surface device. Please stay active on the line as I connect you to them." - transferred. Othmane TAHOUR - Was going to transfer me back to BSOD dept. But then just left the chat.
Reviewed Jan. 11, 2024
How am I supposed to get my account released reinstalled if you claim it's compromised and the form you tell us to fill out keeps getting sent to me with a notice saying that you are unable to assist me at this time and I need to fill out another Form and try to put all of the information to the best of my ability however you can only do two forms at Max a day. Both forms every time get denied for me even though I put all of the security questions because I'm looking at my Samsung passkey that has all of the answers.
How in the world is a multi-billion dollar company doing this to so many people and telling us to "follow this link, complete this form, this is the only way, this is the only way, humans can make the system but only AI can help you fix it, only AI can help you fix it, only AI can help you fix it, submit, you can only do two forms a day, we cannot help you, sorry your account is lost. It is compromised due to someone trying to get into your account. It is compromised." Blocked. Goodbye. That's it. That's all you guys say. I'm losing my job, my clients and that's all you guys have to say fill out this form. This type of issue can cause medical problems brought on by the stress of all of this. You need to fix your system. This is horrible.
Reviewed Jan. 9, 2024
I have a new laptop and I set the browser to Microsoft Star Page. The setup and News is terrible. I’m a MCSE and I don’t think highly of Microsoft anymore. The company has zero innovation. Like Apple they survive on their fans. They are I forcing you into AI or Artificial Intelligence in 2024. Big mistake for them. The solution is to move away from the greedy company and use Linux. That is also the solution with Apple. Get an Android. These two companies did nothing since their heyday. Every Network Engineer says the same thing.
Reviewed Dec. 31, 2023
I am very unhappy. I was told I can cancel my subscription and get a refund within 30 days. I cancelled within 30 days and Microsoft will not give me a refund - it just says I cancelled it for the following year starting at the end of 2024. This is not what I want. I was sent an email saying I can get a refund. Microsoft is robbing me. To make matters worst, a world leading tech company does not have a single email you can contact for the company. The only emails they have kick back the emails and say they will not deliver. Crooks.
Reviewed Dec. 30, 2023
I’ve tried calling 3x only to speak to an automated system. Each time they said I would be expecting a call from a Microsoft representative within 2 mins. I never received any calls. It’s been well over 16 hours now. So frustrating Also, my Minecoins are all missing and the skins that I bought vanished. I want to fix this probably as my 8 year old son spent his very hard earned money to buy Minecoins.
Microsoft make it extremely difficult to speak to someone about our issues. It’s absolutely insane. It’s almost as if don't want to be reached. I don’t know why so many people like Microsoft. They don’t make things easy. For the past 3 days I’ve been fiddling with the website trying to find answers. Nothing! PS. I did all the trouble shooting they suggested via webpage and nothing worked. Go figure.

Reviewed Dec. 8, 2023
I'm a Microsoft CSE since Windows 95. Today Microsoft is a worthless company like Apple. They like Apple haven't been innovative for a very long time. Windows 11 was released for PC gaming. Upgrades and performance are dedicated to games. In 2024 they will most likely release a new operating system like 12. They are greedy. Like Apple they have large followings. Now they are into AI or Artificial Intelligence and they will continue to be stupid with that. If you have a PC try Linux. Linux is free and now used everywhere. The operating system is public and upgraded by the public. It doesn't require printer drivers so you can print on older printers. Android phones are based on Linux.

Reviewed Oct. 26, 2023
My younger sister passed away 6 months before the Microsoft product she used was set to expire. Microsoft renewed the annual $74.36 fee several months after she passed away. When I brought this to the company’s attention, they asked me to email them her death certificate, which I did. After receiving her death certificate, the associate told me he could not reverse the charges imposed several months after her death because she did not cancel the renewal. I advised him that she could not cancel the renewal because she had been deceased for several months. He refused to credit her bank account even after consulting with the same supervisor who demanded to see the death certificate. Absolutely disgusting behavior. I will never use another Microsoft product.

Reviewed Oct. 20, 2023
Updated on 11/04/2023: 3 times, I've contacted Microsoft about a withdraw from my account from May thru Sept,. The first time you said you couldn't find it. The second time, Microsoft looked up all possible emails. They claimed they couldn't see it. Before the 3rd time, I submitted a federal investigation. The 3rd call to Microsoft, I was told what it was, belittled, they acted as if it wasn't their fault and couldn't cancel it. Then, in the same investigation Microsoft called me back and I had to raise my voice and shun the representative for them to comply with the answer of closing the account.
Now, you've caused me to lose my bank account, and you are partially responsible for it and my time recovering from the issue. Currently, the violation is leading to court for Discrimination with Microsoft as a 2nd Defendant, liable for the issue. Although, the funds have been returned by the Financial institution, you've wasted hours of my time. The bigger issue is that you are conditioning me to believe that I need to become belligerent for understanding.
Original Review: This is not my first run-in with Microsoft being a fraud. First it was regarding offering an understanding for this Onedrive and asking for compensation due to breach of security. This time, someone has opened an account and used a "microsoft" email. I'm not sure who uses that. And, supposedly as Hotmail account... NO ONE USES HOTMAIL.
I've had two recent problems with accounts. One, was a possible accident, the other, a full account was opened and has been taking funds out of my bank since May. My financial institution Aspiration finally gave me the information I was seeking to try to find it. When I called, after not using the account and reporting to the FINRA the 3rd Party bank sent me the information. It's extremely troubling to see that such a large organization is losing so bad that they're starting to utilize fraudulent accounts to make money. All it takes is a small amount and for you to miss the transaction. Seems that the bank is willing to pay for it as well. I'm sickened by this issue!
Reviewed Sept. 30, 2023
I went on a cruise for a week, when I returned, my xbox account had been modified, my gamer tag was changed. It was **. Now it's **. I contacted Microsoft about this after verifying no email was received about the change to my account, also verifying no successful access was made to log into my account. The 1st person I spoke with told me to contact my bank to verify no pending charges were made for a gamer tag change. I immediately looked on my banking app to verify there was none and she urged me to call the bank to verify. I asked to speak to a supervisor and she immediately hung up on me.
I then called my bank, yep, no pending charges. I called Microsoft back, which is a hassle to begin with to get ahold of anybody, and they verified they didn't change the tag, doesn't appear anyone changed my tag from my console, can't tell me more than that and refused to allow me to have it reversed. I've had that tag since 2015 but 3 years ago, Microsoft changed the system so you can't exceed 12 characters in a name and claim they are helpless in retrieving my tag for me. Even that 2nd person's supervisor said there's absolutely nothing they can do and there's no other dept or other individuals that are capable of reversing this for me. Only thing they offered to do was reverse the $9.99 charge so I could create a new name. After being a loyal Xbox customer since 2015, this is the best Xbox could do. Not acceptable in my book!

Reviewed Sept. 23, 2023
Microsoft keeps updating without my permission despite having automatic updates turned off. Windows 11 Randomly disconnects from Bluetooth with no fix in sight and it still does this today with Microsoft continuing to ignore problems such as Windows Updates Destroying PCs that are less than 5 years old, calling computers that are 3 years old obsolete or outdated, and giving newer PCs a random Blue screen of Death because you played games on it like Minecraft which updates way too frequently. Then when they have briefings, they would lie to the customers and then go back to ruining more PCs. Back in October of 2021, I did not want to Upgrade to Windows 11 right away because there were complaints about the taskbar being messed up. Then the Windows update nagged and nagged at me until I installed it in April of 2022, It Began to destroy my PC about six months later.
In January of this year, My PC began to freak out and I decided to go buy a new one in which I shouldn't've done but I thought it was totally ruined. I Got a New PC a month later and that one began freaking out a month later due to cooling issues in which I got the cooler replaced and it worked fine. Then more updates came and slowly started to degrade the gaming performance of the PC and made Minecraft unplayable with any type of addon that is installed in the game. You go to load the world and there's a error that sounds like they are happy that it didn't work. It would say this "at least one of your resource or behavior packs failed to load". Seriously, I know that it failed because of updating the game way too frequently but also giving me a random blue screen of death when I'm about to close the game.
They should be out of business because they continue to mess with customers and the products that they buy. Look at Minecraft for Example, They took Notch's Game and turned it into a nightmare of bugs and crashes just because an addon was installed and it even crashes without them installed. They took Windows 11 and turned it into a Chrome OS ripoff which was designed by some arrogant young programmer that would then ignore bugs in the OS because they make millions of dollars every year. I wish that Mac OS would take over as the main operating system in schools, colleges, and offices because although there is a learning curve with this OS, it becomes easier to use once you understand its concepts.
Reviewed Sept. 10, 2023
Last week on the 5th of Sept. I got an Email from Amazon stating my account had been threatened. I called Microsoft and I found out after talking to a lady that their office was in India. Only for an Email password I wanted to change. This lady has completely screwed my computer. I was on the phone with this lady for 1 hour and 20 minutes. I only wanted to change my password to my Email account and now for the past week I cannot get into my Email account. I called Bell my computer supplier and after about about 15 minutes he hung up on me. My whole computer format has changed since this lady changed my regular computer layout.
I am truly upset with Microsoft. I am an 80 year old man who is computer friendly and not computer literate. I need help and it is probably going to cost me a few hundred dollars to get my computer straightened out. Microsoft in India and I live in Canada. I do not have much respect for Microsoft. I wish there was a different supplier.
Reviewed Aug. 29, 2023
My experience with Microsoft services has been anything but pleasant. It's extremely tedious to attempt to make any changes to your account, because they need so many different kinds of verification for one simple thing. I've attempted to add a phone number to my Microsoft account many times, to redeem a reward on Microsoft Rewards, and it's never so easy as just adding a phone number.
The phone number you add has to be never used by any other Microsoft account in the past, which I find to be ridiculous. Even if you delete the phone number that is in use on another Microsoft account, you still cannot add the same number to a different account, meaning that you would have to add a completely separate phone number to even have a number registered on that account, that wasn't previously registered on any account in the past. Because of this, I cannot currently redeem anything on Microsoft Rewards. I guess I'm expected to get a completely, brand-new phone number, that has never been used on any Microsoft account in the past, to add it to my account.
The seemingly only way to verify the reward I'm attempting to redeem is through texting or calling a phone number. Microsoft gives you no other options, making it extremely frustrating. I had to dig to even figure out why I couldn't add a phone number. Microsoft is extremely not user friendly, as they make it incredibly difficult to find the information you may need and makes it so you are unable to perform verification on your account, that should be easy. I am extremely disappointed in Microsoft's services. Thank you.

Reviewed Aug. 26, 2023
Why don't you employ some customer service help by hiring people that have a clear, good phone voice and do not have a thick, heavy hard to understand accent? What's the use to call customer service and not understand a word they are saying in order to help?! I am sure most people will agree with me that we do not want to be connected to Bombay India or vicinity every time we call Microsoft with a problem, in need of help and have to struggle understanding your customer service personnel's unbelievably thick accents?! Please realize that When we call customer service, we are already frustrated either with your products or services to begin with so don't escalate our frustration by hiring hard to understand people?!
We call your damn customer service line, patiently wait for an hour or so to receive some technical help and then Boom! We don't understand a freaking word coming out of the customer service personnel's mouth! Out of frustration we hang up and redial, hoping the next person will not have as thick of an accent and "Boom"! Another hard to understand person that I'll end up hanging up on for raising my blood pressure struggling to understand what the heck they are saying!!! Time for all the companies out there to Stop being cheap and hiring outside help possessing extremely thick, Hard to understand accents which we don't understand and start hiring American just like you expect us to buy American!!!
Can't expect us to buy American then get help from India or Africa or Asia or somewhere where they possess really thick accents majority of the time just because labor is cheaper there! When you interview them for a phone job make sure you understand them first!!! This is not by any means prejudiced, I am merely stating the facts that a customer service particularly one with a phone job must have a Pleasant, Clear Tone of voice at least a reasonable, understandable accent that's easy to understand For All. I'd give him zero Stars if I could in their customer service department.
Reviewed July 17, 2023
MS unilaterally cancels access without fact checking account information. Knowing that there are plenty of individuals engaging in hacking activities they assume a subscriber opens up a rewards account to get more benefits, which it’s impossible with MS and most companies.

Reviewed July 9, 2023
To start off I really liked my surface! I have had it for a few years, and then the charging port stopped working. So on Microsoft website, they refer you to go to Best Buy. My goal was to get the data for my old one and buy a new one. Then Best Buy inform me there is no way for me to get my information for my old one and that the only thing they can do is give me a new one for $500 from Microsoft, when the same version I had was with selling for 300 in their store so I attempted to call Microsoft but there's no one to talk to. If I bought any other computer, they could access the hard drive. I've been doing this for 20 years every time my computer gets old or goes bad I bring in the access to hard drive and move over my files. This is the first time that I couldn't tell me a real lesson about Microsoft, I'm very disappointed.
Reviewed July 2, 2023
Microsoft company is probably one of the worst companies, I ever had to deal with about asking questions about my account. All I wanted to know was why I’m being charged again for a yearly service. I have tried multiple times to contact Microsoft Company. I have even tried to chat with very much difficulty. When using their chat line, it could never answer my question. It would only send me to an AskTech Software page. The page then requests that I give my Visa information and a $46 service fee.
Microsoft must be out of their minds if they think I am going to pay them for a yearly subscription and then pay them to answer a question about my account. I wrote them and said, that if no one is willing to contact me by phone, so I could discuss my problem with them. Then I would no longer want to be dealing with their company. I do not want to chat with anyone online. I want to speak to a live agent and if that is not possible, I would like to cancel my subscription. I don’t believe that anyone should be charged for a question, nor do I believe that anyone should not be able to speak to a live person about their account. If I had to give Microsoft a score, I wouldn’t even give them a star, based on this situation. Unfortunately, my review wouldn’t be submitted unless I give this company at least one star.
Reviewed July 1, 2023
I cancelled my Microsoft Office 365 subscription on 11/24/2022. Microsoft has continued to charge my credit card every month on 2 different credit cards for the same subscription I cancelled. If I attempt to log into Microsoft it says I have NO accounts with them but they continue to charge 2 difference credit cards. The contact phone number they provide does NOT allow the credit card companies to dispute ANY charges.
Microsoft offers NO valid phone number or emails for consumers to address any disputes. ALL phone number connect to recorded messages that direct you to login to the website that I no longer can login to. Microsoft forces you to create a new account if you attempt to login which then gives them permission to charge you for a 2nd account. This is the worst consumer fraud I have ever encountered. They block any access to address this. The Microsoft website should be taken off the internet. Any online forms I attempt to submit to address this I get error codes. Any request through any chat or portal never gets answered
Reviewed May 2, 2023
Microsoft should not ban people without reason especially when they just spent hundreds on games. There is no reason as to why and on top of it all you can't get any help at all and everything is online where automated answers don't help at all. No wonder people enjoy Playstation platform better! You can't just ban people without cause or reason. That's unacceptable. I would like to have reasons and proof otherwise legal action taken with all purchases.

Reviewed April 14, 2023
I brought ring battery and solar panel from Ring Website. I paid in US DOLLAR, but they return it to me in CAD DOLLAR!
I phoned ring customer 4 times but I still didnt get return label yet. Every agent said " I will send it to you 24-48 hours" but after 5 days, NOTHING in my mailbox. Ring Team used this way to stop me to return the product.
DON'T BUY RING!DON'T TRUST THE RING CUSTOMER OR SUPPORT TEAM!

Reviewed March 22, 2023
When I started using Windows operating system back when Windows 3.11 came out. I mostly saw incremental improvements that benefitted Windows as an operating system. Then as Windows 8 came out and subsequently Windows 10 and 11, I saw a change in what Microsoft considered an operating system. It became much more involved in pushing an ecosystem built on purely Microsoft software and services. Even making it more difficult to change to a third-party web browser. But also collecting a lot more data on its users. The once basic platform to run software has now become its own intrusive and bloated install filled with stuff many users do not even want. Some of it you cannot even uninstall, and also mostly forcing you to use a Microsoft account whether you want to or not. It's even worse than the old days of Internet Explorer where it mostly was the only browser usable.
Today Edge cannot be easily uninstalled much like Internet Explorer. In fact, it's worse because there are plenty of good browsers out there that are not given the same respect of the OS (Windows) as Edge is. At this point, after decades of using Windows I do not do so as a choice but as a reluctant user with little choice but to endure the whims of Microsoft. But I am close to saying enough is enough with Microsoft's unwillingness to respect an equal place on its operating system for third-party apps that directly compete against Microsoft apps. Windows as a OS should be neutral in how it handles any and all applications.
Reviewed March 21, 2023
I purchased two subscriptions for premium game play and neither were applied to my account. The money was paid but no benefit derived. After two different phone calls totalling nearly an hour which included transfers to five different people, the problem still could not be resolved. I asked for a refund of my money and was told they couldn't transfer me again because the "queue" was full. They supposedly will call me. I believe their customer service model must be based on the theory of transferring until the customer hangs up.
Reviewed March 1, 2023
I have been blocked from my business account due to nonpayment as the checking account changed. I have been trying to reach out to any customer service agent that can help and it's so hard to talk to live person. I have been dealing with non support for few days and my business is being affected. They are no help, despite being an online product service.
Reviewed Jan. 30, 2023
Microsoft Edge/Microsoft Updates are forced on most laptops/desktops. I have tested and proven that Microsoft Edge raises laptop/desktop temperature 30 degrees. While installed and playing a game, my laptop temps averaged 97 degrees. After deleting Microsoft Edge and its related properties as well as suspending its updates, the same game ran at 60 degrees. Edge runs in the background even when closed, as well as Phone Link. The increase in heat would damage your system, if playing resource intense games. Microsoft Updates/EDGE should not be forced on the consumer for this reason.

Reviewed Jan. 26, 2023
Called for help with low brightness of display 5 days ago. 3 days, and 4 techs later, I discovered it was my monitor causing issues. They never asked me to check that, or did so themselves while they had control of my computer! During that time I had techs update, download, and destroy my Windows 10 operating system. 2 days ago I was sent to a "level 2" tech, and over the course of the past 2 days, I was advised to do this, and check that, and the tech taking control of my desktop PC 4 times, and finally advising me of many problems with my system, and PC, which did not exist before the first tech touched my Computer.
I believe Microsoft, in the greed which so obviously motivates them, no longer cares about fixing their product flaws, and instead wants to make you buy a new operating system, to download the latest software, update to a "newer" computer, etcetera! I now sit with a computer which has NO SOUND (since the 2nd day tech started things which have made my computer useless to me!!!!) I think I will have to go to Macintosh route from now on, as MS cares less, and is motivated ONLY BY GREED!
Reviewed Jan. 21, 2023
My son made an unauthorized purchase yet when I called Microsoft to try and trace his purchase they would not help me so they were basically being accessories to my son committing fraud. And he is a minor too besides so I as the parent was trying to figure out whose credit card he used and they wouldn’t do anything!! Instead the guy tried to tell me how to parent my child instead of helping the situation so my son got away with fraud and Microsoft is ok with people stealing from them too apparently. So minors get away with stealing credit cards and making unauthorized purchases online. This state is ridiculous and so is bail reform. Microsoft does not care about their customers.!
Reviewed Jan. 17, 2023
I purchased 3 Microsoft surface tablets for my children. Pro 4; Pro 6 and Pro8. They all broke and gave issues within 1 year and had to be returned. The Pro 4 tablet did not offer a extended warranty plan and after paying almost 600.00 for the tablet it is now holding a trade in value of 6.43. Even if it worked, the value is on 45.00. My Fire HP which I paid less than 300 for has had no issues and is now 4 years old. It has out lasted and outperformed Microsoft which seem to be a complete RipOff to the consumer. Buyer BeWare: Do Not Buy Microsoft!!!!
Reviewed Jan. 8, 2023
I would give negative 5 stars, this doesn't deserve to exist, it keeps on banning the websites I use. I wouldn't say I like this website. Its creations are trash and I hate everything about it. My parents force me to use it, even though I support google. Worst search engine ever.
Reviewed Dec. 21, 2022
Last week my screen went completely black and I had no functionality even though I had power. I had to make two trips to the Best Buy store located in Grand Junction. They updated my computer. Now I find my mouse is non-functional. I attempted to contact Microsoft twice-but they either ignored me-or kept sending me to "settings" which was total nonsense. This is a company I view as similar to Twitter nowadays. They intentionally create a problem, then refuse to correct it. I am guessing they want to me to spend more money on another brand new computer only so they can (again) place barriers that would cause my computer to to be non-functional again. My opinion is that Microsoft is just as corrupt as other companies who agitate for more profits in lieu of selling a credible product.
Reviewed Dec. 21, 2022
First of all, if I could give negative stars I would. I purchased a Surface Pro 8 for college through Costco 6 months ago. I got a standard warranty with it, but they failed to tell me that the standard warranty doesn’t cover physical damage (cracked screen, liquid damage, etc.). I contacted them to try and get a replacement and they told me that I needed to purchase the complete warranty within the first two weeks of purchasing it, because the standard warranty doesn’t cover that. First of all, Costco failed to tell me that there was even another warranty option for physical damage. I received a reward card that has almost enough to cover the out-of-warranty repair, but they said they couldn’t use two different cards to pay for the replacement, and the people at customer service were so unhelpful.
Reviewed Dec. 18, 2022
'Boy what as bad idea that was! I clicked on 'delete **'. And clicked on 'add new number'. I added my new number to show the last four numbers, '**'. Then, it happened, the Microsoft security note said that it will need to verify my number to make sure it was 'ME' doing the change. But it was going to text my old phone number. That phone and the number was disconnected from my phone service. So, the number and the phone were both no longer valid! I clicked 'If you do not have any of these, use the 'authenticator' app. But the authenticator app is on my old phone, and that is no good. And the 'authenticator app' that is on my new phone is not valid because Microsoft will not use it because Microsoft can not verify that it is ME who is changing my number!
I have tried for now 5 days, trying my best to log onto my 'good' laptop. But now, thanks to Microsoft, my use to be 'good' laptop has now crashed and burned because Microsoft has restricted EVERY site that is controlled by Microsoft....which means, EVERY site! I have three regular size laptops and one small 'Acer' that I can't use because Microsoft will not let me update the friggin 4 numbers!!! I have called the Microsoft main phone numbers, but NO ONE who works for Microsoft can help me...."It's a 'security' issue"! And the recording on Microsoft website tells you, 'if you have a technical issue, go to help.microsoft.com and it will be addressed'....THAT IS BULL! The site shows NOWHERE that offers help! Monday morning, the 19th of December, Microsoft will get a phone call from a VERY perturbed user! Microsoft has the monopoly on internet sites, and if you have a problem....well, their motto is...."sucks to be you".
Reviewed Dec. 16, 2022
I have 3 surface laptops, 2 of which have had spots appear on screen which eventually lock the laptop. I have recut the laptops and tried everything I can find with no luck. The closest I came to resolving it was to disable the touch screen and that only worked until another issue appeared. Eventually both laptops were continually locking and became unusable. This is a common issue with these laptops and Microsoft needs to deal with it.
Reviewed Nov. 23, 2022
I ordered an Xbox bundle online. The delivery date came and went. I spent time online with their agent, who couldn't answer me. I can't get a refund because it's 'in delivery.' I can't get a new delivery date because Microsoft doesn't know what happened with the order and have to investigate. FedEx says they never got the package, so I can't track the supplied tracking number. Microsoft gave me no answers, and they just said I'd get an email. So they said... I'm still waiting (yet, I'm out nearly $1000 with zero answers). Nice one, Microsoft. Nice one.
Reviewed Oct. 16, 2022
I don't have any problems with Word until Microsoft decides they need to improve things. After the updates, I have to reset everything. I'm not talking about the usual stuff but random things. After the last update, my folders no longer showed contents with folders first. They were at the bottom of the list. None of my Word documents could be saved after working on them. I had to resave everything. And I'm talking about hundreds of documents. I write and do editorial work on my computer. This was a HUGE problem. But Microsoft doesn't want to hear from its customers because I couldn't find anyplace on their website to leave a review. And I doubt that they read the ones left here.
Reviewed Oct. 11, 2022
I went to cancel my subscription on October 11th, 2022, when I noticed there was no option for a refund in the Xbox menu. I wanted a refund because I had just been charged for the quarter and I wouldn't be using Xbox Live anymore. Because I didn't know my password and was unable to recover my account, I have been unable to contact any form of customer support (web chat, email, phone, etc.), because for all of those you need to have access to your account, or else Microsoft just doesn't offer that form of support anymore.
I've now been trying to get a refund for two hours. I've called in a number I got off GetHuman.com (Microsoft hides all their support numbers online so no one can find them) and I talked to a rep that was unable to recover my account or request my refund. She told me she'd transfer me to a supervisor. She's had me on hold for 30 minutes while she periodically checks back in to tell me she will transfer me to a different supervisor because the previous was unavailable.
What is clear is that this entire system is designed to make it impossible for those who have lost access to their accounts to request a refund. I am certain that Microsoft must make a lot of money from this anti-human policy. For this reason, I have decided to open a lawsuit in small claims court and to file a consumer complaint with my attorney general.
Still, no matter what I do, Microsoft refuses to allow me to request a refund because I don't have access to my account and provides no legitimate way for me to recover my account. This is textbook fraud, but since Microsoft is such a big corporation, they get away with it. Not anymore. I'm going to take this all the way to the supreme court if I have to.
Reviewed Sept. 27, 2022
With Windows it seems to start with updates. Updates announce a coming Tsunami of issues. This last time began like the last have. Updates got more frequent until stopper happened. Edge asserted itself as the wannabe dominant default browser first. I finally moved to it, found it to be faulty and when I moved back to Google I was attacked. I have lost my Settings app. Without it I can only operate on a superficial level. Imagine that. My mouse can only right click on my start button. That brings up the background list and important things like Settings don't activate. I have looked around for help and I see a lot of the same complaint. I tried one Microsoft answer that did nothing. Norton was very active...watching all of this with no help. I suspect Norton. It has happened before with Norton involved. I need a new computer...possible not windows... and a new security program. **
Reviewed Sept. 18, 2022
I have had a few Surface tablets over the years including the very first model, all worked fine. Since then, I have had laptops from many different companies with varying quality etc. It was time for a new laptop so I thought I would try Surface again, big mistake. I bought the Surface Pro 8 with i7-1185G7 at 3.00GHz 3.00 GHz; 16 gigs RAM and a 256gig SSD. It seemed to be acting a bit "strange" from the beginning, but I thought it was me adjusting to this tablet. Well, it all went downhill from there. I contacted Microsoft support a few times, they had me re-install Windows a few times but every time a new issue would come up. After several support sessions they said that the hardware was defective, and I needed to have a replacement.
I thought that was ok until they said it would be a used "reconditioned" unit that would function perfectly. Having had "reconditioned" units in the past I knew that I was just acquiring someone else's issues. Plus, I had only had the unit for just over two months! So, I said that I would rather upgrade to a different model and pay the difference. Because this had gone on so long the 60-day period for return/exchange had passed. I was told by one agent that Microsoft had a trade-in program, so I checked it out. The amount that Microsoft wanted to give me for two-and-a-half-month-old Surface was $180!!! I paid over $2000 for it. My issue and request was sent to a "team" and they said because my Surface was bought 90 days ago, I would only receive a used unit and no return and upgrade.
Needless to say, I said no and will relegate it to the few things that it can still do. I would never buy a Microsoft product again. Over the years I have been a loyal customer and apologist of theirs. I've had many Surface units, countless Microsoft laptops from many different manufacturers, three Surface phones (remember them?) etc. They have made clear that they have no interest in customer service, all they want is our money and get lost.
Reviewed Sept. 5, 2022
I am not totally computer savvy, so I find some of Microsoft Office not user-friendly. The Calendar has no holidays, there should be a pick of holidays to add to the calendar. The folders on the desktop screen are either too large or too small, and they do not alphabetize and do not seem to be able to be put in rows, there is not a file cabinet view. The text of what is within the folder should be on the folder as an option, not just below the folder. Basically, this software seems okay if one does not have a lot of work, but not the greatest if one has a lot of work. When I renewed my Office, the icons did not appear on my desktop screen, I have to login for them to work, and this has never happened before and I have Microsoft Office for decades. It is difficult to set up outlook and maintain it, so I do not use it.
Reviewed Aug. 26, 2022
Broken/defective product game didn't deliver what was promised with false advertising and gameplay. Downright unplayable, Buggy glitchy mess. When I asked for a refund after owning it for less than 24 hours with less than 3 hours of playtime, they denied me. Buyer beware Microsoft even tho they state clearly they offer refunds for digital purchases. When you try and request a refund they will tell you they don't offer it at all. When are these companies going to be held accountable for selling broken products?
Reviewed Aug. 22, 2022
10/10 do not recommend ordering from Microsoft. My husband and I knew we would not be available to receive a package at home so we put the delivery address as my work address where it could be delivered. Microsoft took it upon themselves to change the delivery address to our home address. It has been a week and still no Xbox and we are out $500 and can’t even get ahold of someone to help us. I will never order from Microsoft again.
Reviewed Aug. 18, 2022
I've had this laptop for years and I regret every moment of having it. Every time I reach out to some one in customer service they never care to help me with the problem or even try, they also refer me or transfer me to someone else or HP and in the end having to be transferred more than once is a issue. NO one at Microsoft takes ownership of the customers' issues, let alone foster an environment where it sounds like they care about our issues and really want to help. Today I ran into another software issue where the laptop out of nowhere for the first time decide it wants to restart and ask of a BitLocker Key which HP states always happens on its own with Microsoft computers. I despise calling into Microsoft. It's the worst company I ever dealt with. I'm in school and have had more issues with this computer than any other brand of maker. I will definitely be shopping for another computer this weekend.
Reviewed Aug. 16, 2022
The rep who sold me the Surface lied to me and the company refuses to honor the $100 post-sale credit they promised. Even though it was written and saved in the chat log. Two follow-up chat conversations and a very long phone call to sales support and each time was told "we can't do anything, but we've put a note in for the chat rep and they will contact you tomorrow to fix this". All **. No one ever follows up. Asking for a manager gets you hung up on. Which means another 30 minutes on hold or waiting for a chat rep to respond. I will never buy another Microsoft device again.
Reviewed July 28, 2022
As a news source, really bad. Content stays on for days and becomes irrelevant - not helpful if news is what they want to provide. Also, have to sort through so many ads to get to actual information, again, if you are trying to be a news source, make me sort through the news to find the ads, not the other way around. Also, many of the stories are related to controversial issues and the most inflammatory take on them rather than just reporting the facts - amusing some people think MSN is liberal - most links are to Fox News. Not saying Fox is bad, I choose a variety of sources to get balanced coverage on issues, but liberal, MSN is not.
Reviewed July 20, 2022
I wish I could rate lower than a 1/5. I ordered a Surface Pro 7+ bundle back in March 2022 with the type cover keyboard being shipped in mid-May 2022. While FedEx lost the type cover package, I have contacted Microsoft customer support five separate times to handle the issue. They kept blaming FedEx, however, they did not offer a solution to resolve my problem. I did everything that they told me including filing a claim with FedEx on June 2 which FedEx sent to Microsoft to approve and no response so the file was closed 3 weeks later. I had to reopen the file with FedEx and try calling back Microsoft to approve it. I have asked Microsoft several times if they could resend the type cover and they said that they could not each time. I asked to speak with a supervisor and they said someone would call me back within 10 minutes and then another 3 weeks went by with no phone call.
Then they told me they would give me a reference number for a credit towards the type cover which is not in stock and they do not know when it will be back in stock. They said that I need to keep checking back and call when it is available to reorder. I asked them if they could just send one to me once it is back in stock, however, they said that they would not do that. I have wasted so much time and it has been over two months since the package was lost and dealing with Microsoft. They are not helpful and this is a very upsetting experience. I am going to return my surface and go buy an Apple instead. I have always been an Android person, but at this point, I want to get rid of all Microsoft products.
Reviewed July 11, 2022
I received an email from the actual legit Microsoft support saying there was a sign-in activity from Ukraine, and it gave the IP address and other information. Sent from account-security-noreply at accountprotection.microsoft dot com. But when I manually checked my "recent activity" in my Microsoft account, no such sign in was listed, either successful or otherwise. I contacted support about it, and after over an hour of trying to convey the issue, they finally just stated "it's fine, don't worry about it. You are secure." At which point I asked them why this happens, to which they replied "it is the random emails. Don't worry about it."
So of course I asked "Random emails?" But they continued to just say "Your account is secure. There is no sign in from Ukraine, is there anything else I can help you with?" After having gone AFK for a long time as if to check for the activity... It was very suspicious and I asked for a transcript of the entire chat. They insisted there would be one. When I asked for reasons why I would receive an email from them about unusual activity that isn't showing up in my recent activity, they said they'd 'forward' it to a tech team." So I requested they email the transcript AND give me the case number for this 'forwarded' case. They insisted it would be emailed after I stopped talking with them on the chat.
I insisted they email it beforehand. He gave me the current case number. I requested the case number of the FORWARDED case, and he said it's the same number... After being promised an email of the transcript of course I hang up and no such email was ever sent. So I ask you, would you feel safe knowing you received a legitimate email from Microsoft saying unusual sign in activity has been reported from another country, only to be told "nah don't worry about it. It's totally fine. That didn't happen. That email was just random." So what is Microsoft actually doing with my account info? Are they picking and choosing what actually gets reported to me?
Reviewed June 30, 2022
I am a 74-year-old, long-term Hotmail subscriber. Before moving permanently to Guatemala on 4/22/2022, I sold my computer. I forgot my Hotmail password. All my sources of income, bank accounts, and tax records are available only by electronic communications in that Hotmail account. I spent countless hours filling out Microsoft online forms, only to be denied access to my Hotmail account every time. Much research revealed I cannot contact Microsoft by phone, chat, or text to explain my situation and prove my identity conclusively with voluminous evidence. In the decade or two that may remain to me, I could lose over a million dollars due to Microsoft's actions. Many people serve long prison terms for doing far less harm than that. If only Microsoft would communicate with me personally, this grand problem could be solved so easily.
Reviewed June 8, 2022
Who's gonna cure malaria then? How does Windows get worse with each passing day? Why on God's green earth does the run taskbar in the lower left corner search the internet? Why is it set to be the priority? I want to find and use the functions which are built into my computer. We don't need to rebrand them as "apps"; they should only require the web if they require the web; "programs" was fine. "Apps" doesn't exactly sex it up, dial it down. I want to manage my drives and devices. I have a computer; I know where the internet is. If I want to shop, I will write "for sale" or something to that effect in the search bar on a search engine. Or click on the "shopping" tab.
I am using the computer in English because that is my native language. I am fluent. Please stop pushing your trash products on me and let me try to manage the files I am using. Please for the love of God why is this happening? Why does my Device Manager simply list my devices? Fascinating. Now let me manage them. I miss Windows 95, and that's saying something. Please God, make it stop--the endless updates, mostly. Every update makes the computer, system, functions, "apps", etc. WORSE. If I wanted "apps" I would be using a phone. I bought a laptop for a reason. I'd hate to live in a world where my cell piece has superior functions to my laptop.
Reviewed May 21, 2022
I purchased credit for my 11 year old daughter on her Microsoft account. However we were unable to use the credit on her account. I contacted Microsoft and spent over 1 ½ hours on the chat… Eventually spoke to the manager…. but was informed that Microsoft will not refund the money. There is no honesty in this company… No caring for their customers… No sense of ‘doing the right thing’. Even the support person knew and agreed that what I was requesting was a very reasonable request for a refund under the circumstances. The money was sitting in my daughter’s Microsoft account… not being used. But they said that Microsoft policy was not to refund the money.
Please listen to the overwhelming number of reviews. Go to Apple where you will be treated with care and respect. Where if a user makes a mistake… and changes their mind about an order… the money is promptly refunded. Microsoft just point blank refuse to refund the money… which is a very short termed and close minded way of dealing with customers.
Reviewed May 7, 2022
Tried to rent a movie on my Xbox and got an error message stating that the transaction didn't complete and to try again later, so I rented it from Amazon Prime. A bit later, I got an email from my bank stating that the Microsoft charge actually did process. I sent a refund request to Microsoft with a detailed message about what happened, but they refused, citing that their Terms of Service does not allow refunds for movie rentals. But if their system told me that there was an error and that I wasn't charged, but Microsoft actually takes the money and refuses to give it back, constitutes theft IMHO. I called my bank to dispute the charge and they didn't even need to investigate it. They gave me my money back immediately.
The thing that sucks about that is that Microsoft gets to keep the money anyway, because when you win a dispute through a bank, the bank actually eats the cost because they don't actually take the money back from the merchant. I'm still going to pursue other remedies (like this review) to make sure people are made aware that this happens, because until we start holding corporations accountable for their theft of our money, they'll keep getting away with it! So do not be satisfied with just a charge back from your bank! EVER! Always do what you can to let as many people know about what the corporation that stole your hard earned money as you can or they'll just keep doing it!
Reviewed April 4, 2022
This is going to be a long post. I have a Microsoft Surface Book which cost about 3k when purchased. So as you can see it's not the cheapest you can get. It is an I7 and the best at the time. There was an update in April 2020 that ruined my experience with Microsoft. When that update occurred, I realized my network adapter was nowhere to be found. Now when that update happened it was 2 months after my warranty expired (of course) and when I called tech support I was told that. They did try to fix my computer using many techniques.
The last one being a usb update which didn't help either. I went online and read multiple users experiencing the same issue as myself. If you see soooooo many people complaining about the same thing that is no longer a user error but a manufacturing issue along with the update. I have not found one person say that calling Microsoft has solved their issue. In order for me to fix the network adapter they said I would need to pay $599 plus tax to get a new computer as there isn't a way to just fix the adapter. How convenient is that for them? Needless to say that laptop sat for over a year as a "paperweight".
Fast forward a year and a half and I was able to use my laptop by buying a usb adapter for the wifi. It wasn't the most ideal fix since when I detached the top I lost all wifi but it was a fix nonetheless. This was working for the most part until a couple of months ago when I decided to call Microsoft technical support again hoping they found a fix now. I spoke to someone in another country as I always do for them, and the rep went through all the same steps I did two years ago with no fix.
The only thing this time that was done different was she logged in to my computer remotely and worked on it that way. So as you can see my computer was still operational since she was able to log on, but what happened after destroyed what little I had of it. There was an update she did and once that happened I was unable to turn on my computer at all. I called customer support, talked to manager and everyone said it was my fault because letting someone from their tech support work on my computer was at my discretion and even if they broke it, there was nothing they could do. WOW! Simply WOW MICROSOFT. A multibillion-dollar corporation treating me as a piece of... Telling me to go buy a new one or pay the 600 to get a replacement.
Since I received no help I decided to go to my lawyer who drafted a nice email explaining the situation and to help with something that their own tech support in who knows what country broke. I then get an email in response to this saying they can't help. I asked why they aren't communicating with my lawyer, but never get an answer to that. Just the same answer saying, "WE WILL NOT HELP YOU!" When I spoke to my lawyer about this, he said the reason I am getting this is because they sent it to a normal customer service rep that follows the same guidelines and answers everyone else has.
Microsoft, you have lost me as a customer and everyone I speak to will hear what I have to say, I have the proof in all the emails you sent me and my damaged 3K laptop that I never got to use! I feel unappreciated and definitely taken advantage of. I will also post this on every forum and every social media so no one goes through what a lot of people have gone through by reading reviews!
Here is a snippet of the last email they sent me. **
Basically, this says it could have been an update (which how is that my fault?), a piece of software installed (which there wasn't, it was the same way it came from factory) and that I have to use this at my own risk. It also says sometimes extensions are given but not for years..... Well I called 2 months after my warranty expired but somehow they have no record of that lol. How convenient! BEWARE EVERYONE!
Reviewed March 18, 2022
My father passed away almost two years ago but Microsoft will not cancel his automatic renewal for Microsoft 365, let alone reimburse my mother for two years worth of fees even though the computer was wiped clean and given to charity. Customer service has been contacted seven time. Shame on Microsoft for stressing out an elderly grieving widow with this issue. No other company has done this as we've gone through the process of sorting out my father's affairs.
Reviewed Feb. 27, 2022
I bought this device and it's been nothing but an issue and I'm not able to do anything I intended to do with it. It's incredibly slow with literally one added app onto the device. Even with a side by side comparison to my laptop.

Reviewed Feb. 27, 2022
When Microsoft will stop ruining the customer's property? I had updates that came on my computer this morning, and it ruined my computer. It is the second computer damaged with Microsoft updates. Microsoft updates have to be turned off if you would like to keep your computer in working condition. The customer service does not provide any proper support like always. The computer does not boot even with the USB. Can just go and buy another one, thank Microsoft updates. I hope they have enough liability insurance to pay back for the customer property they ruined.
Reviewed Feb. 25, 2022
The ads have become so long...even in a foreign language to me. The other player can keep playing, beyond the timed point where one automatically loses. Regardless of my experience, with the ads, it doesn't seem to matter. I will not play on this site again.
Reviewed Feb. 23, 2022
Do not pay Microsoft to store your data, they deleted all my files because they said the account was inactive and my storage was full. I paid for 1 terabyte of data and didn’t even have close to a terabyte of data stored. I was paying them an annual fee to store my data. How does that inactivate my account? When you pay for an annual fee to store data you assume that means your account is active. Well with Microsoft don’t assume any data you have stored is safe. My most valuable information was stored, Don’t ever trust Microsoft. They are incompetent, untrustworthy crooks. If you are going to wipe out someone’s files how about you mail them a letter first. Did they do this? Nope. I’m switching to Apple products. I’m done.
Reviewed Feb. 15, 2022
They are thieves. I have tried to cancel this subscription for over two years. They give me the run around. They always hang up on you! They have taken out over $600 out of my account and they will not stop. They clearly see that this account has not be used or signed into.
Reviewed Feb. 12, 2022
I purchased a new Surface Pro and Microsoft 365 Personal at the same time. When I received the Surface Pro it had Microsoft 365 Family loaded on it. At 1 month, I noticed that they sent a statement saying that Microsoft 365 was going to be charged again. It was at that time that I realized they had 2 different subscriptions tied to the account. So, I called and asked if I could just cancel the one I had not been using. They said that even though I had not activated the 2nd subscription it has been 30 days, so they would be unable to refund the cost of the unused subscription. And even to get to this answer was difficult. I first called and was told to call back because their system was down.
The 2nd person disconnected me trying to transfer. The 3rd time the individual said they could see all the information on her screen and was getting me to the right department. Again disconnected. Called back again, this person said they could not find the information on their screen. Was transferred 2 more times and the last person told me what I said above that I would just have to pay for both subscriptions this year. This was a disappointing interaction and poor customer service. The few times I have had to interact with Apple, they always worked to make thing right with little difficulty. Although in this world we may be forced to use Microsoft products, I would encourage everyone to use them only when necessary and turn to Apple or others whenever possible.
Reviewed Feb. 10, 2022
Never in my life have I ever been so frustrated with a piece of ** software like this. For the love of God I cannot install programs and do basically anything without another admin user account. BECAUSE OF ONE SOFTWARE UPDATE. I have an i9, 64Gb of RAM and 2Tb of storage, so don't blame it on the hardware because of ** software. I am going to write negative reviews on every site that I can review this ** of an operating system. Go back to XP if you can, at least that was stable.
Reviewed Jan. 24, 2022
I had a 9 month old surface laptop that suddenly wouldn't charge. Raising an online Microsoft work order was a nightmare afterwhich I was asked to ship to Germany (from Italy) ... 3 days later I received an email to say it had been thoroughly inspected and was being returned (didn't give me any specific reason), then 15 mins later to say it has just been received and approx 2 hrs later to say it was being returned unserviced & was not a warranty issue! No reason as to why it wasn't a warranty issue. Local Italian phone support (English not an option) could do nothing and advised to raise another order on return! UNBELIEVABLE - wasting my time & machine still not working - DON'T BUY.
Reviewed Jan. 24, 2022
I am so upset. I have paid over 1000 dollars for a surface laptop. Sent it to Microsoft for a repair order!!! They have had my laptop for over a month. they blew my phone up saying they could fix it hurry and send to them.. Then I get 2 emails after I have shipped the device stating for me to send the laptop again. They are so ridiculous. This is absurd and I am livid. I study cyber security and can't even do my work!!! Sorry to say but I am pissed!!! I will be contacting where I got my laptop through and reporting it stolen. Honestly Microsoft I use to always support you. Say goodbye to stocks... Be aware. Do not send hardware to Microsoft. They are scam artist and hang up on you and they keep cancelling the order after I have shipped my computer to them.
Reviewed Jan. 17, 2022
I got a Laptop in July 2021. By September 2021 the PC starts shutting down every 1 hour. HP cannot fix it till I uninstall Windows Enterprise. Microsoft outsourced the chat support to very incompetent people who would be so quick to dismiss or transfer the case to a non existent support staff. I have used Microsoft support in the south nut the support in the north east are very incompetent.
Reviewed Dec. 30, 2021
I bought the Surface Book 3 on 29/11/2021. But the item was not delivered within 5-6 business days. Hence I contacted the support team and they advised the item will be dispatched after a month on 29/12/2021. On 29/12/2021 I received a tracking no with a expected delivery date 30/12/2021. But when I enquired the status of the delivery on 30/12/2021, I was informed by the Microsoft support team, that the item not yet handed over to DHL express and delivery could be any time after 2/01/2022. Hence for all the delay and hassle made me really disappointed with the poor service Microsoft offered. Expect to say sorry, there are no other apologies offered. I will never buy anything from Microsoft store again unless some accountability is taken and improve the service in future.
Reviewed Dec. 19, 2021
I recently purchased a Surface Pro 8 online at the surface store. I have had issues with the product from the start. Yesterday the onscreen keyboard would not appear. I called customer support and requested a call back, it came and then I had to wait on hold for over 9 minutes for someone to talk to. After going back and forth for a few minutes I was told to hold on again as he was checking something-I was disconnected. I called back, received another call back, this time I waited over 12 minutes. I told him that I was dissatisfied and wanted to return everything. He transferred me to sales, I spoke for a few minutes with someone and again was disconnected. You can't make this crap up.
Reviewed Dec. 18, 2021
On November 6, 2021, I decided to try Microsoft 365 Family free 30-day trial promotion. The promotion required a credit card, without promise to pay unless you decide to move forward with the service. I used my Debit Card for the sign up. The service was defective including having the ability to hack into my computer and block me complete access without Microsoft allowing me that permission. This was not included in the promotional plan information. I cancelled on December 5, 2021, and on December 6, 2021, Microsoft fraudulently charged my debit card $99.99. I tried contacting Microsoft at 1-800-426-9400, 1800-642-7676, and 425-882-8080. I was unable to speak with a live person. On each number I found a pre-recorded message referring me to help.microsoft.com.
I went to this website and tried to cancel online, after I checked the cancel your subscription, I received this message, "WE CAN'T CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION". I have tried multiple times to reach a live person to assist me at Microsoft. It doesn't exist, the phone numbers are all bogus and this is a scam to trick consumers into defective and unwanted service traps for profit. I want a full refund and this company sanction accordingly.
Reviewed Dec. 7, 2021
I just bought the phone and the deal was if I don't like the phone up to 3 months I can return that. It has been 3 weeks. Good luck to find the return on the "Order detail", cheap items the return link is there but the phone no return option. On their site, Any link you click send you back to where you were, or it says "bad request", which it shows on their ideas of service, "Closed loop". You can find no one, the phone doesn't work properly, the software on the phone conflict with each other and there is absolutely no service whatsoever. This is a software company and this is what they give us? Bad business, all I can say. Stay away purchasing on their site, or prepare to lose your money.
Reviewed Oct. 31, 2021
I contacted your company through a webchat and the person from your end asked my permission as an assisted team to help me out. After I gave this person permission, this person didn't know how to do his/her job and accidentally deleted some information from my phone which was connected to my computer to help me out to send that information into the SD into my phone. After this person did this, he/she panicked, left a 5* review from his/her end and closed all of the chats, screens and restart my computer and I couldn't reach this person, I tried to phone Microsoft, there is no reliable phone number to talk to a live person, I need to make a complaint against your employee, I feet betrayed by Microsoft and I can't trust Microsoft anymore.
Reviewed Oct. 18, 2021
The Surface Laptop Studio delivers BROKEN. Out of the box, the operating system causes blue screens of death and total loss of data every ~2 minutes. When I tried to exchange the broken product for a fixed one, I was told to simply place a new order and receive a refund on the first order to get the replacement product in 2-3 days. I did this, and was then told (AFTER I paid ANOTHER $3000+) that my replacement wouldn't deliver for another four weeks--even though the broken one delivered in 2 days, and I was expressly told that the replacement would deliver in 2-3 days.
When I called customer service, they told me that their warehouse is only full of broken, already-returned devices, and that they don't have any functioning devices to ship. Note that this product was only released less than 2 weeks ago, so I assume my experience is not unique. When I said that answer was unsatisfactory given what I had been told by the previous customer service representative, I was told that the person I was speaking with *didn't have a supervisor* and that *no one else* worked in the customer service department of the entire Microsoft Corporation.
I've canceled both orders now to have my entire ~$7000 refunded. I will update this review if I'm given any more trouble on getting my money back. I won't be purchasing a Microsoft product ever again. While I've been a lifelong customer so far, resisting the allure of the (much cheaper) Apple products, I will now be making a total switch. I'm not giving up $3000 on products that come off the assembly line broken and "2-3 day" delivery periods that somehow translate to 4 weeks in reality. If you read this review, I implore you not to purchase the Surface Laptop Studio or any Microsoft product unless you want to endure a similarly miserable experience and 2 weeks of no laptop computer.
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2021
I ordered surface laptop 4 in August and despite reaching multiple times asking them for some information about its status. I STILL DON'T HAVE MY LAPTOP. I didn't expect this from Microsoft. I wanted this laptop for my school and I still have no clue about its delivery or any whereabouts. The estimated delivery is by tomorrow but this is the last time I am reaching out to help and yet again they ask me to wait. Please don't buy ever from here. I was trying to switch from Apple to Microsoft but I regret my decision already after such a poor response.
Reviewed Sept. 30, 2021
I recommend staying away from Microsoft. The company operates on some outdated models, where you have only 30 days to cancel your subscription! It's cloud-based software, for every service out there you have the right to cancel at any time and get your refund, yet Microsoft is shady **. Stay away from them, there are better free software out there that do the same job if not better. Never again will I do business with this ** company!
Reviewed Sept. 26, 2021
Can we sue Microsoft if someone hacks our account, then uses it to gain access to other accounts we have because their ** automated system won't let us back in and they don't offer customer support or customers service? I'm definitely placing a call to the Better Business Bureau, this is **.
Reviewed Sept. 23, 2021
I have found charges that date back over a year from Microsoft month after month and when I try to contact someone about it they said they would have someone from the main office call. They never did and now when I try to get a live person it won't let me so I have to close my card down and everything to stop payments but what about my money they took for services I never used?
Reviewed Sept. 23, 2021
Poor Customer Relations. My Excel is screwed up; tables are sideways, incomplete. Word has disappeared and won't come back. I called the numbered for Microsoft. I punched a few buttons and it said "Goodbye." Really BAD COMPANY. Doesn't hold a candle to APPLE. If I had an alternative product I would switch.
Reviewed Sept. 23, 2021
I am a user and not a person up to date with the latest how-to chase around different locations of files. Since the last updates, I have lost my Excel spreadsheet, that I purchased and my past Photos files. I am only a user.
Reviewed Sept. 21, 2021
Issue reported: Chrome and other non-MS browsers not launching. New issue on a previously properly functioning device. Two separate MS Technicians stated that the issue was due to the user account profile being corrupt. Cause stated as a virus or network interruption. Neither had occurred. Explained and demonstrated the issue to the Techs. I informed them that the PC was new and used by my son for school (Chrome login required) and had worked fine until today.
Techs wasted my time (5+ hrs) troubleshooting, rebuilding user accounts, and wiping the computer to reinstall Windows10. All for naught, because they were not addressing the issue which was the Microsoft Family settings had changed (by MS) and that was blocking my son's access to non-MS browsers. It seemed odd that the Chrome had functioned on the PC until today. Then only MS browsers would work. I had asked both tech if something could be blocking the Apps from launching and was told no.
Meanwhile my wife had been searching the web the Techs and I weren't making progress. A Google search revealed the issue the issue was caused Microsoft Family. MS Techs should know their own product. When they promise to call back if the line is disconnected, they should call back. The end of call survey is a farce because it doesn't accept negative input. Microsoft Tech support wasted 5+ hours of my time and never actually resolved the issue. Misdiagnosis, errors in "troubleshooting", disconnected call with no call back, incorrect information provided. Issue caused by Microsoft product, resolved by wife & Google.
Reviewed Sept. 12, 2021
That a huge corporation like Microsoft would see it as fitting to withdraw person-to-person on phone support is appalling. I have Windows 10 and Office 2019. There is a glitch in the software that is impacting on my ability to print from Word. Copy the document to Google Docs and there is no issue. Microsoft Help is abysmal - time consuming and no relevant answer. I have had to spend $250 via two competent computer technicians and issue remains unsolved so far. This should not be the case for a product that Microsoft is responsible for. A company that’s states the outright lie that shifting to online help will Make it easier for the customer is appalling. Would no longer recommend them Or their products. A company is only as good as its post-sale customer service, which for Microsoft is NIL!
Reviewed July 26, 2021
Microsoft forces me to use pw to log in. As soon as I login, Bing automatically loads in. Slows down my PC with unwanted microsoft software running in the background. Filed complaint with BBB to which microsoft refused to correct. No matter what I try can't solve the problem. Will never buy microsoft, Hewlett Packard or Intel products again as they are all responsible for my headaches. I have no privacy whatsoever as microsoft owns my pc. Corrupt, dishonest company, stay away for your own sake.
Reviewed July 24, 2021
To start off, I’ve had a bad experience with Microsoft so far. I switched from a Mac computer to a Surface book 3. From the start of getting my surface book 3 I’ve experience issues with a notification coming across my screen constantly stating that it has been detached even though I didn’t click the detach button. Furthermore, my computer consistently shut on and off. Now my computer refuses to turn on. I also find it difficult when scheduling an appointment for repair. I would say this is one of the worst services I’ve had at Microsoft. I probably will not recommend anyone to purchase a Microsoft product. I won’t even purchase another Microsoft product.

Reviewed July 10, 2021
Every time there's an update it ruins my computer. Everything has to be reset; programs, sign-ins, etc. It never fails; they always fail. I'm going to an alternative. Microsoft wastes a lot of my time.
Reviewed June 30, 2021
I have tried 6 days straight to get issue fixed with my very old live.com account and have been unable to get any help. I do not know password, and cannot do anything to fix account because I don't know it.
Reviewed June 26, 2021
Things have been fine. No problems with anything. I am satisfied with Windows defense. And because it's free, I'm very happy. It fits the bill. I can depend on it. My choice is Windows Defender, always.
Reviewed June 25, 2021
I have a unique situation and need to speak to a person. There is NO ONE. Everything is self help online. So is this now another business that has let all their employees go and the computers are running the show? Between self check-outs and self help customer service, where are people going to work? Terrible!!!
Reviewed June 16, 2021
I woke up to an offer from Microsoft to use more of their tools. I am a Google Girl because the tools and service have been much easier to navigate, but the offer looked interesting. As a remote business owner, I love good tools and ways to make daily tasks easier, so finally, I gave in. Now, I sign in to Microsoft every morning to access my laptop. And I also use Edge as the portal for my carriers.
The nightmare I began went on for 2 hours. Receiving passcodes, signing in for authentication, getting another passcode, being told I was already signed in, to being told my password was wrong. And we went around and around and around. So I went to get help. OH MY GOD!! You would have thought I was trying to get through to the president. Once I get to them, they immediately want to climb aboard. NO, I have too many Social security numbers and private information from my clients. I have not a clue where who and what would be signing on, and you know you never know if they remain. Then they want me to reset my password. WHY?? it works every day? In fact, I was signed into my Microsoft account.
Then finally the rep disconnected from the chat after I waited 25 minutes for him to arrive. I have been a PC girl since the 1980s, but I hate all of the Microsoft products. I wanted to like them but today proved my point. Horrible customer service, if you can get them! Products that don't work as promised, still to this day, but they beg me every day to make them my default. My mistake, I should have known better. But I will remember today for a very very long time. Google is Superior!!!
Reviewed June 11, 2021
Windows Security is a free part of Windows Microsoft and appears to be doing the job. I have had many other Anti-virus programs that I have paid for and have had issues. It just may be there is no issues with Windows Security because it is from the same people who developed Windows.
Reviewed June 10, 2021
Microsoft Windows support would not give me enough time to answer their before they asked another one. Asked for more time. Got nothing. Disabled and can not type fast enough. No help at all. Have to hire someone now.
Reviewed May 14, 2021
My email account was locked after I forgot the password. I went through the forgot password process and it asked me for info on the last four emails I sent, but didn't sent any. And they can't even hire a teenager to help me fix this, just stuff the details into a bot who sends me an email saying can't help ya, but you can try again with more details. I only used the account purchase games for my Microsoft computer and Xbox, now when I get my better gaming computer I will have to repurchase most of the games (bless Origin and Steam for being separate from this mess). I'm mad, tired and sick. And they can't even spare 20 min to help me fix this. Fluff you microsoft.
Reviewed May 12, 2021
Long story short my son's Xbox Account was hacked and the person used my credit card on file to purchase a GTA shark card and gifted it to themselves on their account. When I contacted Microsoft about getting my $100 refunded the representative on live chat assured me it could be resolved and I had to submit a claim. Ok, great! No problem. Submitted the claim and got an automatic email back saying because of the type of item purchased, it's non refundable. Ok, NOT ACCEPTABLE. I replied to the email asking for a supervisor to contact me... no reply. I chatted with another online agent who told me to try again, so I filed a claim and same thing happened. I responded to the email 3 or 4 times just to get back another automatic response that said the case was closed.
I have emailed no less than 14 times with no results. I took to Twitter and was messaging with a customer service team who basically said it's another department that handles it and they can't help that I need to reply to the email and ask for it to be reviewed again. It's been over a week with no results. I filed a dispute with my credit card company but there is no guarantee that I can get my money back that way either. I feel defeated. I don't have an extra $100 laying around to just throw away like that, especially when we did not make the purchase or authorize the purchase. Cards have been removed from the account and passwords have been changed. I know the account name of the hacker since they gifted it to themselves and it showed up in my email, but yet Microsoft is unwilling to do anything for me.
Reviewed May 2, 2021
Microsoft Windows based products are archaic garbage. Microsoft sucks and should be put out of business by the federal government for the low quality and poor security of their products. CHROMEBOOKS are the only way to go these days.
Reviewed April 30, 2021
Microsoft (Xbox) there is no live customer service. The phone number routes you to a website then hangs up on you. You cannot access the online forum without signing into your account first. Can't sign into account, when you are locked out of the account. The entire process is futile. For a company charging the consumers $400 + a gaming system you should have a live person available in your CS departments. The recovery process should not be so difficult and the forms should be reviewed by a person not by an automated service.
Reviewed April 23, 2021
Today I was notified that my Hotmail account was compromised and hacked along with someone tried to log into my Yahoo, Facebook, and Gmail accounts. I was successfully able to change the passwords to all accounts except my Hotmail account in which I have not used in over 5 years which of course means I have forgotten all answers to security questions and passwords. I reached out to customer service today via chat and was connected unfortunately with a chat representative by the name of Lois **.
At first she was nice and professional but continued to repeat herself as to telling me the same thing over again of how to log in. I explained that I had tried the different options already but did not mind trying again for her. She proceeded to tell me that there was nothing else that she could do since the account WAS NOT COMPROMISED and that I was the only one to make changes to the account that there was nothing more that she could do.
At this point... RED FLAGS went up because I'm like wait what CHANGES... because I have not made any changes and I have no way of accessing this account. I proceeded to tell her this and she she tells me that since there was nothing else that she could do then would I consider saying that she had addressed the issue and end the chat. I told her no because she did not help me and that I felt that she had no idea what she was doing. Lois Evans then states that "This wouldn't have happened if I had set security questions." At this point I'm infuriated. What customer service chat representative tells a customer this? She then sends that message for me to create a new account and this time create security questions.
I asked for this issue to be escalated and she tells me that there is no way for this to be escalated and that there is no one in the microsoft company that can help me at this point. BULL CRAP!! If this is what customer service is like at MICROSOFT then they definitely do not need to be in business. To treat a customer who is a victim of potential identity theft in such a distasteful and ugly manner is unacceptable and should not be tolerated at all! I am highly upset and will no longer be a microsoft customer going forward. I will bring awareness every day to this issue until something is done about it!
Shame on you Microsoft for having such poor and awful customer service representatives like Lois ** who does not care at all for your customers!!!
Reviewed March 24, 2021
Don’t ever buy or purchase Microsoft products, stay as far away as possible. Microsoft locked my email account, then told me I could access the account after 30 days. I waited 30 days and then it didn’t work still!! Spoke to microsoft for almost 6 weeks straight and all they did was continue to make me fill out forms and then ignore me, or send me in circles and never solved the problem. They're favorite thing to do was "transfer me to a different department" but then nobody would ever connect with me. Now they told me to fill out a account reinstatement form and the lady told me I would be able to access my account after two days. Now two days later I’m here on the chat again and microsoft won’t even answer me about the lies they told me about accessing my account after waiting so many days.
Microsoft didn't help me one bit, and then just ended our chat without actually helping me because again they're pushing me aside to avoid the problem they caused here! I will never ever buy anything microsoft again for the rest of my life and I would suggest everyone else stay as far away from anything microsoft as well. Hands down the worst company I have ever dealt with, and now I can't access my important files that I need.
Reviewed March 15, 2021
Started chat and kept getting links to click on and several times went to app store. Chat then stopped responding after 5 tries. Called number shown. Could just barely understand rep - finally gave me link. Link went to app store. Rep then said he could fix the problem for $189! When I questioned the amount for one question rep hung up.
Reviewed Jan. 28, 2021
DO NOT EVER BUY AN ELECTRONIC GC FROM MICROSOFT OR AMAZON. THEY ARE CROOKS. I purchased a $60 xbox yearly subscription from my son for his birthday and Microsoft provided a used code to my son for his birthday. Amazon says Microsoft gave them a bad code, Microsoft says Amazon sold us a bad code. Neither one will take responsibility. Both companies are so poor they have to cheat a 14 year old boy out of the only gift I got for him and I am out $60. I spent hours on the phone with Microsoft that will not honor or give my son a good code.

Reviewed Jan. 10, 2021
A lot of companies out there sell computers but the Microsoft store inside Danbury Fair Mall in CT is by far the most professional and greatest staff I have ever experienced. The Microsoft company is professional and great as always and best customer care service.
Reviewed Jan. 9, 2021
It is extremely light and compact. I wish there were customer service that was comparable to the apple. The screen is bright and easily readable, and I would make a lot more use of some of the features if I could get a contact for customer service to help me.
Reviewed Jan. 6, 2021
Updated on 01/11/2021: Someone hacked my email (msn), apparently they used it improperly so Microsoft locked it. I've been trying to contact Microsoft for 2 weeks now. But they no longer have a number that a real live person answers. They keep referring you to websites. This is very disturbing.
Original Review: It use to be if you had a problem with your account you picked up the phone called & you got someone. Now you call, go through all the prompts & never talk to anyone. So you have to write a letter to Corp.
Reviewed Dec. 26, 2020
It was rated top of the line, so I bought for charting from home as a healthcare provider. It has SOOO many glitches and for the price tag, I’d not buy from them again. I much prefer apple which has flaws but overall is a much easier to use quality product.
Reviewed Dec. 25, 2020
Pen stopped working so they sent me a new one which also did not work despite replacing all batteries. A friend reported the same experience. Customer support is mostly limited to "experts" who do not necessarily work for Microsoft giving suggestions. Have not found this useful in most cases.
Reviewed Dec. 22, 2020
I purchased a Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 in March 2020, as soon as the pandemic shutdowns were announced in NYC and I knew I would need to work from home every day. I ordered directly from the Microsoft store online and paid $1250. As soon as I received the computer, I wasn't able to use it when it wasn't plugged in. It would only last max 3 minutes unplugged. A quick google search and you'll see this is a known issue with Surface Laptops. Microsoft just doesn't care and sells expensive laptops with that issue! Cool. I would have gotten a desktop if it had to always be plugged in...
When I called in the beginning, everyone was useless on the phone. In the summer though, I started having much worse issues. My laptop started going into a crazy blue screen all the time. I would be in the middle of important work meetings and my computer would just randomly crash. Sometimes it would come back in 10 minutes and sometimes it would take the whole day. I called and called and called. Troubleshooting was a joke and no one fixed anything. I also had to wait on hold for multiple hours each time. I got someone on the chat feature who told me that they would honor a return for me when their stores reopened. I even took a screenshot of that.
Months later in the fall, clear that their stores are not reopening anytime soon (even though Apple is opened). So I started calling again. The blue screen craziness started getting worse and more frequent too. They told me that they would not honor that and could care less that I had a screenshot of someone telling me they would. They would only do an exchange (because I have so much faith in Microsoft computers at this point...). I lost a call with the person who was processing this for me. He had all my contact information and just never called me back! I had been on the phone with them literally all day and the hold times were multiple hours. Just no call back.
Now it's December and my computer has completely hit the bed. The blue screen happened and wouldn't come back for days (luckily it was a weekend!). It finally turned back on but all my stuff was gone! My computer must have reset. I had some seriously important documents that are not lost forever because Microsoft. So now here I am calling them again demanding they send me a new functioning computer (although I should be getting a return). Again, I lost a call with someone who I had been on with forever and he just never called me back. I even told him about my prior experiences with that.
I am on now with some lady who sounds like she is 14 years old. Very nice but clearly has no idea what she is doing but reading off certain prompts. I asked to speak to a manager and waited forever before I just let that go. I have been on with them since am and it's 10:30am. They will process an exchange but now I have to add my credit card information to my Microsoft account for them to process the exchange. If the broken computer that they sold to me at full price gets back to them OK, then the hold on the credit card gets removed (supposedly). This is the worst experience I have ever had and I will never recommend anyone get a Microsoft computer. I already talked to my IT team at work who was considered them for a company purchase (they're getting Dells now!). DO NOT PURCHASE FROM MICROSOFT. Their computers are terrible quality & overpriced and their customer service & troubleshooting is atrocious.
Reviewed Dec. 19, 2020
Take your money to Apple!! Microsoft Surface (Laptop and Pro 7) are absolutely awful. Brand new Surface pro 7 device was defective so they decided to give send me a refurbished device instead which was also defective. Once I told them the refurbished one they sent me was having charging issues, they refused to send me a brand new device and send me another refurbished device that is having the same issues. Once I informed them, they stopped responding to my emails. I was between Microsoft and Apple and I so wish I would've bought an apple product!!
Reviewed Dec. 4, 2020
I recently purchased a Microsoft Surface Book 3, 2 in 1 laptop. The unit that I received has a defective screen which was not detected until about a month after the unit was received. After many weeks of getting shuffled around in a customer service system, who seemed to be masters at not being able to connect in person I was advised that there is nothing they would do for me since it involved a defective screen. Had I cracked the screen myself I certainly would certainly take accountability and not have wasted countless hours trying to rectify the situation. Please don't make the same mistake that I did. Do not buy Microsoft Computer products!
Reviewed Dec. 2, 2020
I purchased MSFS2020 and can't play it. My phone time is in excess of four and one-half hours and when one agent has read through their book and can't solve the problem they transfer you to someone else and you have to start all over again explaining the problem. I have spent 3 hours with Xbox agents who agree it is Windows problem. When they transfer me to a Windows agent and I again explain the problem the agent says he will have to transfer me back to Xbox to solve the problem. And on and on it goes back and forth. When I ask to speak to a supervisor they hang up on me or deflect and say a supervisor isn't available. I thought Comcast had the worst customer service. I was wrong. MS took my money but I can't use what I paid for.
Reviewed Nov. 29, 2020
Anyone interested in joining me in a class action lawsuit regarding internet connectivity issues with Windows 10 and HP laptops? No amount of tech service money could fix this issue. I have tech services with Office Depot and they could not fix this issue. I replaced my Centurylink router and that did not fix the issue. No other computer in our home or office had this connectivity issue -- only the HP laptop which I purchased in October for $800.00. When I researched the issue myself -- on the internet -- I learned that many others were having the very same issues with their HP computers and Windows 10. If you are interested in joining me please find me and email me. Thank you,
Reviewed Nov. 24, 2020
Skipping past the bugs and performance issues introduced by the Xbox app in a lazy attempt to make this PC game play on Xbox, the software itself has limited functionality due to the design of the Xbox app. Despite the fact that I have purchased 2 digital copies of this game (for me and my partner) my partner cannot play this game under his profile on my laptop without installing the software a second time. Multiple calls to both Xbox and Microsoft support have not yielded a solution, but I was given incorrect information, told I had to "uninstall the product" from my Xbox, got hung up on, and was promised 2 calls from managers that never happened. I will never purchase another product from the Xbox app again, ever. I've never had any such problems with the Steam platform.

Reviewed Nov. 23, 2020
I noticed when I had to reset my PC yesterday, and I went to put Microsoft 365 back on my PC (I had already purchased 365) that it wasn't in my purchase history. I had gotten ahold of a lady online, who was no help, that I had to try and see if I had another account, and in doing so, I was kicked off the chat. So I repurchased Microsoft 365 at a monthly fee. Today, I try and sign into another account I might have, and it was locked because Microsoft said I was in violation of user agreement. Seriously. I am only using Microsoft still because of school in the future. If this crap keeps up they might lose a customer because this is **. I sent feedback to Microsoft and hopefully they respond. But Seriously?
Reviewed Nov. 14, 2020
For the past 8 months, I have been getting a charge to one my cards for $15.90 that I do not know what it is for. I reached out to Microsoft requesting a refund and they literally make you jump through hoops to confirm the charges. I spoke with Stephanie I. at Microsoft and at one point in our "negotiations" (3 weeks) they charged me yet again! I got upset, wrote an email back and asked them to refund me or get a lawyer. Now I know it was probably not wise to say that, but I am single parent on a limited income, so every penny counts. Wouldn't you know they closed my case and still have not given me a refund. I may have to use MS products at work, but I will NEVER use them on my home pc. Microsoft can bite it and have lost a customer for life. I hope that sits well with them.

Reviewed Nov. 10, 2020
Microsoft is being really Inconsiderate right now! I have one child. ONE! And I can not get my hands on a console! Went to the pre-release day and was told they only had 5 tickets. FIVE tickets for a city with over 100,00 people. You can not find them anywhere, they released them at Midnight! Us working parents are sleeping! No stores can tell you when and if they are getting more. So 95% of the USA Will be without the new Xbox in the middle of a pandemic! I guess I will have a sad child for Christmas because the one dang thing he wants momma can not find! Because of the manufacturing company.
Reviewed Nov. 10, 2020
Can't cancel Microsoft 365 family... Tried to cancel it when they charged me $103 and it said it couldn't be canceled. Now support can't be reached or anything!! Tried contacting them every day but they won't respond. Horrible experience.
Reviewed Nov. 4, 2020
Microsoft Office is supposed to have tech support? Right? They punish their customers and steal all their documents and suspend their accounts. I found a consumer attorney, and did you all see the seven pages on Google of Microsoft lawsuits? I would not do business with a company who gaslights, blames the customer for their false advertising, charges them triple in one month, they're narcissistic, and steals all my documents. Then locks my account and I am 55 years old who is an accountant, bookkeeper. Microsoft, you're getting another lawsuit. Please go to the BBB, and everywhere you can find, they're frauds.
Reviewed Oct. 30, 2020
Over the course of time, they agreed to replace my S-Book with another one. It was a refurbished one. Now a quote from a MS Support tech is this "refurbished it means that has been repaired due to a malfunction". So while I was not thrilled, I agreed to it. I took it to the Nashville MS Store and they swapped it out. When I received the Refurb, I asked the person if the overheating was corrected. He stated "We think so". That is a literal quote.
Now today, here I am with the refurb overheating, the case is distended and I do not feel safe with the unit. From the support tech I spoke with today "I understand that you may be very concerned about this situation. We take this incidents very serious and I want to let you know there is no inherent risk or safety concern associated with these expanded batteries, the lithium ion batteries used in surface devices contain material that can injure skin, eyes, and lungs only if the battery is punctured. However, we recommend to our customers not continue using a device with an expanded battery". Can it explode? Cause a fire? I use this for work and I cannot stop using it. I will be shutting it down every time I am away from my desk now because I do not need a fire in the house.
I spent $2481.36 on this in Feb 2016. Only 4.5 years later I need a new machine. MS solution? Sell me a used Surface Book from their lab for only $599 plus taxes. Unbelievable. I expect a laptop to last a lot longer than this and in reality, this is the second laptop so they averaged 2.25 years of life. That is pathetic. I had used DELL for years prior to the MS book and never had an issue like this. I also found that when there was an issue Dell stood behind their products. (We used them at work with over 500 employees so there were a few times I had to call support though we have now switched to Lenovo, who also stands behind their product). With all this, I do not recommend purchasing a Surface Book. I understand that products fail, but if you do not stand behind a $2500 purchase, I will look elsewhere.
Reviewed Oct. 29, 2020
I have purchased a Surface Book 2 Microsoft Online Store and the Surface Book 2 keyboard received was faulty and having function problem. I send the faulty for replacement to the service center via the support and its been almost 6 weeks and I havent received any response from the Surface support team. Ideally it takes 5-7 Business days.. But in this instance there is no update and even surface support team cant give an ETA. The response I receive is " Repair specialist is working with Service Centre for an update" and it is the same response from last 4 weeks. Even repair specialist are ignoring the surface book support team. Am not sure what to do as this is really frustrating and didnt expect this from Microsoft and they are no better than any local shops and the price for the product is not worth.

Reviewed Oct. 17, 2020
Microsoft is ruining the, Minecraft game we all love. Many reasons, it keeps telling me to sign in even if want to stay sign in, every time I start the game. Also says unable to connect, my internet is fine. There are people having a same problem and Microsoft never fix it. I don't care about the marketplace, seeing some stuff you add on, might not be trusted that you buy. I missed the real old Minecraft that love so much too. Kick microsoft out of Minecraft for good, they don't belong there!
Reviewed Oct. 10, 2020
Did All Windows Recommended Updates and it ruined my CD Player.... Other people report same issue .... Where is the accountability? I am so upset. It's a 2 year old updated HP Pavilion computer. What the heck!? After it happened I did all computer updates and followed all instructions. I assure you the problem is not on my end. I then PAID a professional to fix or change out CD Player and they could not fix. So now I am out the cost for hopeful repair and having to purchase a new CD Player. Come on Windows.... Can't you do better? Do you care that little?
Reviewed Sept. 16, 2020
I purchased a Surface Laptop 3 earlier this year. Randomly the screen cracked and the computer makes a crunching sound when you close it. The customer service has been a complete joke. I first reached out to chat who promised this would be covered due to a design flaw and I just needed to send it in. After sending in the device, it was quickly denied and they stated that the damage wasn't consistent with a hairline crack and sent it back. I was THEN asked to take photos to be denied again. I could pay $600 for a replacement (kicker: a refurbished device because the screen can't actually be fixed). I denied me having to pay for this since I am still making payments through Best Buy.
Today, I am still dealing with customer service. I've been connected with Aaron in escalations who is not doing much to help me either. It has been weeks with no solution. He has agreed that my computer has hairline cracks. The issue remaining is Microsoft will replace devices with 1 hairline crack, not a screen damaged by hairline cracks. Even when there is no other damage to the laptop and no impact point. They said I may be able to fix it (get refurbished device) for a discounted fee, but it's been a week since I was told that and no one has reached back out to me. I have contacted the BBB, Consumer Affairs, and the FTC with hardly any correspondence from Microsoft. Save your money and buy an Apple product instead. Microsoft will do everything in their power to no acknowledge their design flaw and do nothing to help you.
Reviewed Sept. 11, 2020
I purchased a year long subscription and three months before it was set to expire Microsoft cancelled my membership. I called and asked why I was unable to play online and they said it was because I had purchased a different service on my Microsoft account. I cannot believe that I was punished for purchasing MORE services. I've been a customer for over 10 years, but after my experience with Microsoft I have decided to sell my Xbox and bring my money elsewhere. I highly recommend NOT purchasing an Xbox or Xbox Live. Sincerely, a very dissatisfied customer.
Reviewed Aug. 22, 2020
You would think a large company like Microsoft would actually have enough billions to pay for good support people. But just trying to get a subscription stopped, or a simple verification for my login changed would be easier than using Uber, but it's not. I've been hung up on, by a guy who was clearly waiting for his break or ready to leave after his shift. The support page is a bot on chat, no response without login, which is what I need support for??? What a garbage company!
Reviewed Aug. 16, 2020
I bought Bose Soundsport free a month or two ago. The device couldn't fit my ears properly and every time I used, my ears pained. I was very worried I wouldn't get any refund. The customer supervisor, Gabbi G, happily assisted and refunded the item with no questions asked. Excellent customer service and will continue to support Microsoft.
Reviewed Aug. 14, 2020
Updated on 08/15/2020: I am very concerned about Microsoft's transparency to their clients and the general public. This is my second review if you read my first review on how I am unable to access my office subscription. It's day 4 and I am unable to work because I still cannot access my subscription to Office. A supervisor tried to call me back 4 times and every time she was disconnected from my call and the connection was so bad that I could barely hear her.
After I called the Customer Service Team back they told me that the reason the connection was so bad is because they are all calling from their homes and they try to conference in a supervisor from their home and the connection is not that strong in India. At one point prior to that I asked a customer service agent where they were located because the connection was so bad and they got angry and said they were in Arizona. I wondered if that was really true because of the connection was so bad and I realized that they all had an Indian accent...and I say that because whenever I call a customer service in another country I love talking to them about their country.
It's not that I'm being disrespectful, I truly wonder about their transparency and why they would lie to me, it was obvious that microsoft customer service agents were told to lie to me... WOW all this trouble just because I renewed my subscription!!! In reading all other reviews, I noticed that they are very happy with Microsoft's antivirus and that's great but this is not what I purchased. And microsoft is the only company that has the market on Office so every household in the world that has a computer has to use it...Shame on Gates!!
Original Review: The worst experience ever! I had renewed my subscription to Microsoft Office and when I went to access it, I had major issues. It asked me for a two step verification and it sent me the code via text but when it asked me for the email verification code I could not get it because I could not receive the email, it wasn't sending me an email....
So, I called support and even the support team after getting control of my laptop tried several times to send me the email and finally it said I tried verification too many times and I would have to wait until the next day to access it. So, I tried the day after and the same thing happened and not one support team member could hep me. Right now I'm waiting on the phone for a supervisor and the connection is bad, I can't hear the Supervisor.
I have not been able to work for three days because I can't access word on my laptop. It's very frustrating..And THEY have an attitude!! So after explaining my situation to a supervisor they disconnected me..They called back and the connection was so bad they tried calling me back 4 times and every time the connection was so bad I couldn't understand them. WORST EVER CUSTOMER SERVICE..AND THEY DON'T SEEM TO CARE!!! Wasted 69.99. If there were any other option I would definitely NOT Use them EVER!!!
Reviewed Aug. 6, 2020
The battery life on my Surface computer is one hour or less from fully charged to when it pops off. Also, no way to repair cracked glass. They make you buy a whole new computer. I would never buy this computer again.
Reviewed July 31, 2020
I purchase a new computer at few months ago and was very pleased with the product except the exterior shell color wore off. It's obvious the shell coating is very poor quality. I purchased a Microsoft Surface Pro 6. I called Microsoft and they refused to replace my computer with a new one. They offered me a refurbished computer. This of course was unacceptable and ridiculous to say the least. My computer was fine, it was the shell that was wearing off. I would not recommend anyone buy this product. Ness.
Reviewed July 29, 2020
After a routine technical issue I reported back then that I noticed that I was double billed in April and May of 2019. A ticket was created and I accepted their response that they could find no evidence to support it. My credit card maxed out during COVID 19 and was advised by Microsoft that My July payment had not cleared. This caused me to revisit the issue and I looked at all the credit card statements and found that I have been habitually billed every single month twice. I have been trying to reach Microsoft and cannot get through either by telephone or email. Even wrote the CEO a complaint and failed to even get an acknowledgment that my complaint was received or looked into.
Reviewed July 24, 2020
Purchased item on 6/28 - immediately after purchasing tried to cancel order to order something else. Was unable to online and was told to call in. Called customer service only to be told I needed to wait till order was shipped. Once order shipped called back and was told to wait till item delivered. Item delivered, called back and was told due to technical issues unable to print labels. 2 Weeks later, labels printed items returned in original box unopened and signed and received for on July 16th. Called company over 27 times during process to receive refund. Company stated 3-5 days for return. Today is day 6 - no refund. Told by company that they are "investigating". Bottom line - I believe I was robbed for over $3,300.00.
Reviewed July 24, 2020
I will never shop online at Microsoft. I had a HORRIBLE experience. I try to purchase a Xbox one x for my son online and I was not able to because I had a visa gift card and the rest would be on my credit which it is a very easy process at Apple and Amazon. So I call to buy over the phone. The agent advise me to buy Microsoft credit. I told him I will put the money there to purchase the console only, I don’t need anything else from Microsoft. By the time he finished the process there were no console. I have been calling them, email them and no refund. They are holding my money hostage and I ended up by the console from Amazon. Never again. The worse company ever.
Reviewed July 9, 2020
I sent my Surface Pro 6 in to get a hinge fixed. This isnt the first time I've sent a Surface Pro in the first time being a shattered screen which the computer was replaced. I was understanding of that due to how bad the screen was but for the hinge only a tiny thing needed to be fixed but the computer was replaced without even the consideration of transferring the data. The computer was working just fine and if I had known that they would be lazy and just replace the computer without even transferring the data I would have kept the computer and not bothered. This company cares more about the money than the actual customers and unless you like constantly transferring data yourself don't go with this company when it comes with repairs. If the computer works fine don't bring it in because it will just be replaced.
Reviewed July 6, 2020
Customer service and your processes truly suck. I purchased a Surface Pro 7 in March in store and then you guys closed the store the next week. I had issues after one month. I waited thinking you guys would open up the retail stores and then you closed them. I went through all the remote repair options and then was ready to actually put a hold on my account in order to get a refurbished unit back. I was ok with that even though I do not buy anything second hand and the fact I went through.
Reviewed June 19, 2020
When I was having a problem with my computer, I went to Microsoft Support (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/contact/virtual-agent/) for help. Since the Virtual Agent doesn't help much, I just type in Agent, so I can talk to a person that helps. When I got my agent, I told them what the problem was. They came up with an article, I read it and followed the instructions, but it didn't help. So I said, "It didn't work, is there another way to fix this?" They said "Yes", then put it in. I followed the instructions for that, and it still didn't work.
By then I just wanted the problem fixed because it has been going on for hours. I then said to the agent, "Is there any thing else that works? The article and the instructions didn't work." Guess what, they said "No, those are the only solutions that I know." I said to the agent, "There is more solutions? Why do you only know those solutions?" The agents response was, "Yes there is more, but those are then only ones I know." I just gave them a review of 1 star, left, signed out of that account, then signed into a different Microsoft account. I asked the same question, got a different agent. They came up with more solutions, and the 4th one worked.
I then got another issue, and asked the same agent, and they couldn't find a solution. Only one came up for them. I said "So there is only one solution, or you just don't want to help me, like the last agent?" They then said, "There is more solutions, just I couldn't find them. Other agent?" I said, "So... there is more solutions, but you don't know them? The other agent sucked, didn't want to help me." I gave them a review of 3 stars because they helped with one solution, but not the other. I asked again, (second issue) guess what, I got the solution, after 3 agents, I got it, gave all agents except the last one a 3 stars or less. Last one got 5 stars, and a testimonial. I'm never using Microsoft Support again, they didn't want to help me.
Reviewed June 13, 2020
I have now been on hold for 4 hours, the workers there say they need to put me on hold for 5 mins, then never come back to the phone. They have done this to me 3 times now. NO RESPECT FOR PEOPLE!!!! I guess Microsoft is too big to care about us little customers. I am still on hold right now. Finally they picked up, and because I was upset she hung up on me. This is the Bellevue Washington location. I will be filing a Better Business Bureau complaint today, maybe they will care about that!
Reviewed June 12, 2020
Don't ever get things from Microsoft! After 1.5 years of light use, my laptop's touch screen stopped working completely after 2 weeks of random overheating. I kid you not, my touchpad felt hot, to the point where my fingers were feeling tingly and prickly from the heat. And I used this laptop mostly in my room, especially recently because of the Covid quarantine. This laptop was never dropped, and it was used very carefully.
To get my touch screen fixed, I spent the whole day talking to 3 different customer service agents, only for them to tell me in the end that I need to pay $450 for a replacement device that is refurbished. Let me say that again. I need to pay out of my own pocket for a refurbished device, in addition to the $1000+ that I already spent on my laptop and its functions that I assumed would last me longer than 1.5 years. All because Microsoft couldn't make quality products. Microsoft has horrible customer support, and if you are thinking of buying anything from them, prepare to shell out way more money than you initially spent to actually purchase the product. And pray that your devices don't randomly break on you because they won't help you at all.
Reviewed May 19, 2020
The worst unprofessional experience anyone can ever have! They would always transfer you, and telling you to hold, ask for your call back number, and then hang you up callously. Other times, they'll tell you that you called the wrong extension, and would transfer you again, and again, again, till they'll hang you up, or worst transfer to an extension nobody would ever answer.
Saddest experience in my lifetime. This is the 3rd time in 2 years Surface laptop would die or malfunction in my hand, and getting a replacement would be a terrifying nightmare. You'll ever regret encountering Microsoft ONLINE customer service. Avoid them as you would avoid coronavirus. You would regret your life dealing with them, you'll spend UNTOLD hours on phone, all futile. If they keep a hold on your credit card to ship you a replacement, it would take God's grace, tens and tens of hours of futile phone calls, and months of painful waiting to get back your money. Worst customer experience in my 40+_ life on earth. Rating is minus zero.
Reviewed May 10, 2020
I purchased my laptop and was very happy with it, everything worked great and I had absolutely no issues until I upgraded to Windows 10. I live in a rural area and I have to use a hotspot for my internet. I also do not have unlimited data and the data I have is shared between two phones and my hotspot. Unlimited data does not work where I live because once you reach 22gb they slow down your internet and being so rural that means basically my computer does nothing but spin and I can't load pages so I have to keep the package I have in order to have a strong enough signal to make my computer load the pages.
With Windows 10 you can pick a time frame during a 24 hour period for your updates but you can not stop the updates, you have no control over updates not being downloaded until a time that works for you period! This cost me money, it causes me to go over on my data. I can take my laptop to work and use WiFi and it does not use my personal data but rarely am I able to do that before Windows goes ahead and updates it anyway since I normally do not know when an update is in the works. In addition to this issue I prefer to pick what browser I use and I don't want Bing, I get everything set up the way I want and very often the next update will change my browser back to Bing and they set to load on startup.
I have a busy life and use my computer mainly to pay bills, it's very frustrating when you had everything set up the way you prefer and when you start your computer Windows has change your startup and your browser and you have to take the time to go and reset everything and since they keep changing "everything" it's not always easy to find how to remove Bing from your startup and to remove it as your default browser. They also push the Microsoft Edge and continue putting it on my startup as well, something else that I do not want.
In other words if you're ok with them taking control away from you with what browser you want as a default and what is on your startup and if you have unlimited data this may not be an issue for you but for me it's a big issue. I have written them multiple times about this and nothing has changed. All I have gotten was how to remove Bing and Edge from my startup however a update or few later it's back. Recently my husband bought a new laptop and because of price he had to get one with Windows 10, we hoped maybe they had changed some of the issues that I don't care for but he's having the same problems.
Reviewed April 30, 2020
I bought a Surface Pro, Keyboard, and Stylus on April 16th. Spent $1500 at the Microsoft store and received my Keyboard and Stylus within 2 business days like they advertise. However, tomorrow is May and I still have not received my device. I've called everyday for the last 8 days in a row to resolve this issue. They will not let me cancel my order nor will they ship my device. It's been escalated to the Billing Dept for 8 days and they keep saying to please wait another 24 hours....day after day after day. They ensured me 4 times now the issue has been resolved and the device is in the mail but cannot provide tracking or a reference number. I had no other choice but to file a police report for fraud so my bank could release the hold from Microsoft to get my money back. Still waiting to receive my money back. Returned the Keyboard and Stylus since they was useless without the device itself.
According to wonderful Microsoft I will not have my money returned until May 8th. To summarize I spent a fortune with Microsoft and never received my computer. Had to return the accessories and will not have any of the $1500 I spent back until May 8th at the earliest...Almost one month after trying to purchase a computer from them and had to file a police report since Microsoft absolutely refuses to cancel or provide the computer that's needed for my child's school. Buy from anyone other than Microsoft. I could have had a computer weeks and weeks ago if I would have bought something from Amazon, HP, Dell, Apple, or anyone other than awful Microsoft.
Reviewed April 25, 2020
Coronavirus brakes out and my wife is a doctor responding to the outbreak. I'm a teacher who needs to scramble and put together a distance learning curriculum while homeschooling a five year old and a six year..... You can safely say I was fairly stressed out and my first priority wasn't asking for a refund at the Microsoft store. I purchased a video series for my high school students but I am having technical difficulties. I asked for a refund but Microsoft refused!!! Outside the two week window....a once in a lifetime pandemic is going on?!?! Requesting a refund wasn't at the top of the list. I was only a couple of weeks outside the window. They can clearly see we've only watched one show.
Reviewed April 21, 2020
Obviously Bill Gates is spending all his time, effort and money on his worldwide vaccine program because he isn't paying any attention or spending any of his billions on fixing any of Microsoft's support issues. Can't believe how hard it is to get any support when what you purchased doesn't work and you need tech support. Chat function doesn't work and is just frozen. Sitting on hold forever, if you're lucky enough to actually find a number to call. Tells you as a business customer were to sign into your account online and then click on a popup for help to have someone call you back and there is no popup window.
Purchase something and they transfer you to tech to set it up and give you a number to call in case you get disconnected and, of course, after waiting for 30 mins on hold I get disconnected and when I call the number and wait another 20 minutes I get someone who can barely speak English, interrupts me all the time when I'm trying to tell him how to find my account and then he can't even find my account. Has to call me back once then says he will call me back again and it's already been over 20 minutes. WTF!!!! How does a big company like Microsoft get away with such disgraceful tech support?
Reviewed April 16, 2020
What’s the point of have a tech service that doesn’t actually repair anything on your computer. The worst part is they want you to pay them when you already paid that for the dumb product. It’s insulting. There is no way that they think it’s a great idea to have something that doesn’t work because it’s broken and instead of just keep putting it out actually making something that works.
Reviewed April 5, 2020
I got an Elite Series Two controller at around thanksgiving. It worked fine for about 3 to 4 weeks, and then my LB button started to not work, and it just got worse. Eventually it got to the point that it wasn't working at all. I have never dropped the controller or banged it on anything. So I send the controller back and with a report of what was wrong with it, and I waited for almost a whole month until the controller gets back to me. So when I get everything back, I assume that everything will be fine and it will work great because they fixed the issue. The controller lasted me about 4-ish weeks before the same button started acting up again, and I have never dropped it or hit it on anything. And about a half week later the button is not really working. So my main question is.. WHY? Why do y'all take a whole month to send back my controller and the controller isn't even fixed?.. Like it literally doesn't make any sense to me. Ridiculous.
Reviewed April 3, 2020
Windows Security works just fine for me. I've seen no need to use a different product. All the research that I've done over the years validates my decision. At one time or another in the past, I have used a variety of other applications. They all did the job reasonably well.
Reviewed April 2, 2020
I never had a problem! I have the antivirus that came with my computer! The antivirus defender always shows when something has been blocked! I don't need to do updates or anything else! I really feel safe and I recommend!
Reviewed April 1, 2020
Windows Defender comes with Windows 10 I have. As far as I can tell it has protected our computers fine. We also have a protected VPN.
Reviewed March 31, 2020
It Windows Defender free, highly rated in many reviews, the choice of professionals using Windows 10 I know and works best or integrates well with the Windows 10 OS. In other words, regarding resource taxing programs it goes about quietly protecting my computer unnoticed.
Reviewed March 30, 2020
I hate McAfee. It made my computer almost unusable and it took forever to get rid of it. I tried Malware Bytes. Never use them they are a rip. Went to just Windows Defender which is free and works, just use the firewall with it and don't open every email.
Reviewed March 29, 2020
MS Defender is free comes with Windows 10 and works excellent, has firewall, antivirus and real time security to protect your computer. Also you can add with little subscription Microsoft Defender Security Center which can monitor your business or personal network and assist in responding to potential advanced persistent threat.
Reviewed March 28, 2020
The anti-virus bundled with Windows 10 works perfectly for me. It doesn't slow the system down or hog resources. I've had no problems with viruses or other malware in the years I've been using it. I like that it's simply there and does its job without intervention.
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