Peter Briggs

Last updated June 2026

Microsoft Domains

I have I pretty strong bias against Microsoft's software products. Almost everything feels so crufty! When I have the misfortune of using Windows, for example, some parts don't seem to have been touched in many years. You also see evidence, historical artifacts, of handfuls of failed attempts to "bring everything up to date." For example, the Settings app in Windows 10 tries to give a more polished layer for modifying basic system settings in one app. But the moment you try to do anything more than surface-level, the Settings app redirects you to a page in the classic Control Panel. Personally, I prefer Control Panel over Settings because it allows me as a more advanced user to find what I want more quickly, but I get that they wanted to make settings more accessible to the average user. But how hard could it be to just complete the job, get it over with, and implement the remaining few dozen Control Panel settings in the new Settings app?

But Windows is far from the worst; my pet peeve is Microsoft's online services. They seem to rebrand everything every other year, going from Office 365 to Office to CoPilot 365 or whatever. And every time they change their logo... and all the logos for their online versions of their office products. But what I find particularly dumb is the way they seem to use every possible Microsoft-tangential domain name to run their services. So this page is an attempt to collect and list the domain names I've seen Microsoft use when I'm being bounced around their eighty-redirect login flow, or stuck in a refresh loop trying to access OneNote / OneDrive / SharePoint, or on one of their app pages. Maybe this will help me quantify my dislike.

The domains

Work in progress! And I'm sure they roll out a new one every week anyway. Last updated June 2026.

This list has got to be incomplete, so I'll keep adding to it as I see ever more. Email me if I missed one.

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