“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server • Hacker News Board

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by bitwize » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 9:58 PM UTC

shevy-java wrote: post #408

Truupe wrote: post #368

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lennart Poettering already added systemd-fecald into WSL. It’s why he left Big Purple Hemorrhoid for Microslop.

The funny thing is that people said that Lennart seems to work for Microslop many years ago already, when they analysed systemd early on when it came about. People did not believe the critics here, even though it made perfect sense to "unify" the linux systems into one giant slop - until it suddenly was true. Conspiracy theories may not exist in the microslop era. Microsoft will censor away this forbidden word.

The ensloppification of Linux conspiracy started in 1999 not with Lennart but with Miguel de Icaza—another Microslop double agent. His seminal (because it's a giant cumstain) essay "Let's Make Unix Not Suck" is to GNOME what the Declaration of Independence is to the USA—and it advocates making Linux more like Windows with "We have COM at home".

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by hinkley » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 9:59 PM UTC

dajt wrote: post #435

natas wrote: post #383

I recently had dinner in Bellevue with an individual who holds a relatively senior position within Microsoft’s executive leadership. During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products. According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions. Her per…

That's been obvious for years. It feels like they're extracting whatever remaining money they can get from the home PC market while it lasts but won't much miss it when it's gone. I'm surprised they haven't given up on xbox and games but perhaps there's enough money there to keep it going.

That's been obvious for decades. Everyone who worked in the 90's or 00's has stories about coming in one day to find that the VP has been conned into a $1m contract for MS office or development software everyone hates and now we all have to use it because if we don't then he made a huge mistake and VPs don't make huge mistakes.

So we have to eat shit or find open source software to work around MS's garbage check-box-driven software.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by hinkley » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

JohnMakin wrote: post #433

Classic Streisand effect - I had never, and probably would have never encountered this term, and now I have, and I am incorporating it into my vocabulary. Why listen to user feedback when you can do stuff like this? Way too funny.

Not a company well known for listening to user feedback.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by hinkley » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

MarleTangible wrote: post #174

mythz wrote: post #146

Yeah ban the use of a catchy catch-phrase as you continue to shove AI down your user-base - that'll work. Streisand would be proud.

Most HN readers would now, but in the case somebody new reads it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect > The Streisand effect describes a situation where an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information results in the unintended consequence of the effort instead increasing public awareness of the information.

BAHBOORAAAAAAH

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by hinkley » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:04 PM UTC

petepete wrote: post #66

Why is Microsoft using Discord and not Teams?

Same reason MS used a Perforce fork instead of Source Safe. Because the dogfood tastes terrible.

One of the executives at the late, great, Sun Microsystems once dunked hard on Microsoft by saying, "At Sun we don't make dogfood. We prefer to refer to it as, 'flying our own airplanes.'"

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by glaslong » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:04 PM UTC

natas wrote: post #383

I recently had dinner in Bellevue with an individual who holds a relatively senior position within Microsoft’s executive leadership. During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products. According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions. Her per…

I'm always astounded by the tendency to bet it all on core competencies and wind down every other effort that's profitable but not profitable _enough _ As if times don't change, innovation never happens, and your accessory plays of today are never the overtaking market of tomorrow.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by hinkley » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

bombela wrote: post #289

_bypa wrote: post #218

https://microslop.com/

The header takes half the page. It's very annoying, and as such not really funny.

microsoft.com's header also takes up half the page.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by assaddayinh » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

natas wrote: post #383

I recently had dinner in Bellevue with an individual who holds a relatively senior position within Microsoft’s executive leadership. During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products. According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions. Her per…

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Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by ForOldHack » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC

hinkley wrote: post #442

dajt wrote: post #435

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's been obvious for years. It feels like they're extracting whatever remaining money they can get from the home PC market while it lasts but won't much miss it when it's gone. I'm surprised they haven't given up on xbox and games but perhaps there's enough money there to keep it going.

That's been obvious for decades. Everyone who worked in the 90's or 00's has stories about coming in one day to find that the VP has been conned into a $1m contract for MS office or development software everyone hates and now we all have to use it because if we don't then he made a huge mistake and VPs don't make huge mistakes. So we have to eat shit or find open source software to work around MS's garbage check-box-…

Clearly you were there.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by ForOldHack » Mon, Mar 02, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

golddust-gecko wrote: post #412

natas wrote: post #383

I recently had dinner in Bellevue with an individual who holds a relatively senior position within Microsoft’s executive leadership. During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products. According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions. Her per…

This is 100% true. You might wonder why, if businesses are the target, why not just make Windows a no-frills, solid base for the other offerings? Why slop it up? The answer there is cultural. Windows needs a large team just to keep supporting it at scale. All those engineers and PMs need career paths, and shiny things with which to sway their managers into promoting them. The strong, experienced, leaders have largely…

"So you end up with B players promoting C players for slop."

Micro-slop(tm).