From what I’ve seen coming out of Redmond recently, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the “Microslop” filter broke with some random update as opposed to being intentionally disabled.
people quickly started testing variations like “Microsl0p” to slip past the filter
Why don’t they just use that AI they’re so fond of to cover this situation
They asked the AI and it told them it was too expensive at scale.
They’re actually quite lucky to be called “Microslop” instead of what we used to call it back in the day…
I was there. What did we call it?
We used to refer to the company with this despicable name
Micro$oft
That showed them how mad we were at them! Big mad!!
Microshit
should be Macroshit
Microshaft
“I know, I was there!”
I was like “Developers. Developers Developers. HuhaHA”
The intended takeaway is “Microsoft is getting less bad”, but I don’t think their brand reputation is salvageable by anything short of putting all C-levels in stocks on the front lawn in Redmond and a full repudiation of copilot/ai which obviously won’t happen.
“Microsoft changed course” (about shoving Slop into every nook and cranny of their products)
I very much doubt that. When I have to open Office365 (Copilot… Sloppity… WhateverItIsCalledThIsWeek) in a browser they manage to hide the actual apps like Word, Excel etc. a little more behind the giant empty chat interface. Last time I checked my pinned Apps were gone and now there is a tiny button containing some of the apps. To make it worse, this button changed the location on screen almost every time I opened this website in the past months (I’m not using it very often).
MacroSlop was far more accurate in any event.
They probably already chose a new name.
Probably something ass-hatted such as ‘Microhard’
BigHard
Microhard already exists, they are a radio module vendor in Canada. So presumably Microsoft will sue them to make them change their name.
Maybe ‘Macroshaft’?
Microflaccid or death
Any time my work computer is having problems (which seems to be every fucking week since we got windows 11) I ensure I use the term in my support tickets to IT.
IT-1: “Look Bob, another ticket from the guy”
IT-2: “LMAO, ask him if he tried turning it off and on”
