Good thing there's no Linuxslop in Linux...
“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
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Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
#482I 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…
> During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products.
Nowadays phones, tablets and game boxes are the consumer products. Currently they outnumber consumer windows desktops by about 6 or 7 to 1 [0]. 5 years ago, it was about 3.5 to 1.
Microsoft doesn't seem to have much control over this. They are executing a pivot in response.
[0] https://learn.g2.com/operating-system-statistics#:~:text=Mic...
Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
#483Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m at the point to tell people (friends, neighbors, fellow parents, family, ie, not HN readers) to prolong the life of their existing computers and install what I think is the easiest windows equivalent on their computers: kubuntu. Gnome is nice and all, but the default ui, and remember defaults matter for a lot of people, is just too jarring. The people I am talking about just wanna browse the web, go on Facebook a…
My family switched to Gnome 2 a couple of decades ago. My mother quite liked it and has consistently installed it on every new computer she bought. Her only confusion lately has been with the ubuntu snap packages and how they behave between multiple accounts on the machine. These days she uses MATE which still offers that Gnome 2 layout. Awesome thing about Linux is that option to fork, so her desktop environment has…
GNOME has changed drastically. It's nothing like Gnome 2.
Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
#484This just means I'm going to say microslop in random places - documents, slides, emails and Teams chats. "Copilot 365" is welcome to give me a red squigly all it wants.
Don't they allow you to "Add to Dictionary" anymore :)
Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
#485Hehe, this reminds me of 30 years ago when people used to stylise it as Micro$oft or creatively misspell it as Microshaft, etc. Even on the Amiga, there was the filesystem that could read PC format disks that was called MessyDos. It just seems like the next generation has discovered what an easy name it is to make puns from.
One of my favorites being Micros~1, in reference to how Windows had to mangle file names for DOS's 8+3 character limit.
If I recall correctly, this was especially common around the time of the antitrust trial, with the possibility of Microsoft being split into a Micros~1 and Micros~2.
I remember it being used in speculative discussions around which units might end up where.
Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
#486Earlier quoted context omitted.
> home PC market while it lasts Tinfoil hat thought: Microsoft only focuses on B2B and not consumer market, because they make it so that consumers can only rent from Microsoft and other businesses, not actually own anything. That way, Microsoft can keep jacking up prices as they see fit.
If Microsoft wanted to be monopolistic, and it wouldn't be the first time, then why are they abandoning their strongest exclusives (Windows, Office) and instead enter a more competitive market, where Google, Amazon, etc... are well established and with no sign of letting go.
> why are they abandoning their strongest exclusives (Windows, Office)
They're abandoning the consumer versions of these, not the enterprise versions. The consumer versions are the competitive market, where they're competing against iPads and such. They're not abandoning Windows for businesses, Office for businesses, where there is still no established business end-user OS/office suite alternative.
Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
#487Earlier quoted context omitted.
Foolish since a world where no one uses Windows at home will ve damaging for enterprise long term.
I think they (and even Apple) are going to get a walloping from mostly ceding the education market to chromebooks. Kids are growing up using them.
> I think they (and even Apple) are going to get a walloping from mostly ceding the education market to chromebooks.
I think this is an Americentric view. As far as I can tell, the mass adoption of Chromebooks for education is just the US, which is 4% of the world population. And in this particular case there's little reason to believe it will suddenly propagate everywhere else - the US education ceding has been going on for years, and yet it's still confined. It's not like the iPhone which started in the US and within a few years rapidly gained ground in Japan, then Europe and so on.
Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
#488Don’t they have better things to do? Maybe vibecode a taskbar that moves when you try to move away the mouse over it or perhaps a windows 12 installation procedure that requires a fecal sample and iris scan?
The next step is mandatory id verification for the age check on login. To protect the children.
The step after that is to sync copilot screenshots with webcam footage of the user to build a marketing database matching user’s emotional responses to on screen content.
Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
#489Hehe, this reminds me of 30 years ago when people used to stylise it as Micro$oft or creatively misspell it as Microshaft, etc. Even on the Amiga, there was the filesystem that could read PC format disks that was called MessyDos. It just seems like the next generation has discovered what an easy name it is to make puns from.
I remember one meme image that contained a bar chart where the X axis had Gahnoo Linux and Migrosoft Wendys and the Y axis was just labeled "good". Gahnoo Linux maxed out the good while Migrosoft Wendys bottomed out.
Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
#490Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last week on a comedy show (the daily show) they made a joke about bill gates "micro and soft" which was old in the 90s already, so I can confirm this is the case.
I've always said it was in bad taste for Bill Gates to name the company after his johnson.
So... Just how old is that joke?
I've gotta bring up
some BASIC shit
Why'd you name your company
after your dick?