← All communities
Reddit community

r/microsoft

1.5M members. The best post we have captured here reached 4.3K upvotes, which works out to 3 per 1,000 members.

3peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.5Mmembers
4.3Kbest post
29.5Kmost comments
199posts we track

Open r/microsoft on Reddit ↗

What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

59% 29% 8%
Link 59% Text 29% Question 8% Video 5%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

News 31 Discussion 15 [News] 6 :XBOX: XBOX 4 Windows 4 Employment 3 :Copilot: Copilot / AI 3 Xbox 2 :Windows_11_Logo: Windows 2 :Surface_Icon: Surface 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

My husband was laid off by Microsoft after 25 years — by algorithm. His last day is his birthday.

↑ 4.3K 💬 406 text 2025

Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’

↑ 3.9K 💬 165 link 2025

50 years ago today, Paul and I started this little thing called Microsoft

↑ 3.3K 💬 442 text 2025

'Indian nepotism, no gaming background': Internet slams Microsoft for hiring Asha Sharma as CEO of Xbox

↑ 2.4K 💬 316 link 2026

Elon Musk is responsible for “killing the world’s poorest children,” says Bill Gates | "The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s po…

↑ 1.7K 💬 148 link 2025

Microsoft lays off 6,000

↑ 1.1K 💬 403 text 2025

Microsoft Says 'Disappointment' of New MacBook Pro Has More People Switching to Surface Than Ever Before

↑ 1K 💬 257 link 2016

Microsoft platforming Elon Musk at Build 2025

↑ 887 💬 129 video 2025

I Created Tetris In Microsoft Excel At Work

↑ 782 💬 57 video 2023

Microsoft is laying off as many as 9,000 employees

↑ 750 💬 179 link 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/microsoft, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/microsoft have?
r/microsoft has about 1.5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 199 of its posts; the biggest reached 4.3K upvotes, which is 3 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/microsoft?
"My husband was laid off by Microsoft after 25 years — by algorithm. His last day is his birthday." reached 4.3K upvotes and 406 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/microsoft.
What subreddits are similar to r/microsoft?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota.
What kind of posts do best on r/microsoft?
Of the posts we hold, 59% are link posts and 29% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/microsoft?
Across 199 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 20:00 UTC (1.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 14:00 UTC (615 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (537 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/microsoft?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/microsoft has 569 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

Start free →

Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/microsoft, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.