From Windows Latest we get the latest from Microslop: Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash
Microsoft’s aggressive AI push in Windows 11 through 2025 brought upon themselves the title Microslop. Unfortunately for the company, it’s everywhere on social media, and there isn’t a way to stop the spread, unless, of course, it’s their own Discord server.
First they censored the term, and then when that blew up in their faces, they locked the entire Discord server.
Because people are pissed off that Microsoft is more interested in shoving AI down everyone's throats than actually making Windows efficient, secure, not annoying with ads, ...
Once the censorship became known, people started getting around the filters by misspelling Microslop, using the standard l33t substitutions at first, and then Microsoft shut the whole thing down.
Microsoft’s brand image might already be at an all-time low, and even as the company announced plans to fix Windows 11 with performance improvements and less AI, the software giant can’t risk getting more hatred towards their expensive investment in Copilot.
Go read the whole thing. Not quite a Bud Light/Jaguar moment, but I am reminded of them. It also has echoes of Disney/Lucasfilm producing stuff no one asked for, actually hate, and are left wondering why their brand has been destroyed, to the point of being a laughingstock.
And so we have today's vocabulary word.
- Schadenfreude
- enjoyment obtained from seeing or hearing about the troubles of others
Hat tip to Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony and Daily News Stuff 3 March 2026: Mineralogical Edition
Microsoft did not ban the word "microslop" from its official Copilot Discord forum and then shut the whole thing down when people kept using the offending term, or, well, they did but they say it was due to spam. (Windows Latest)
Sure, Microsoft. I believe you.
Microslop has been like this from the very beginning but since DOS was so much better than Apple and then windows made everyday people fairly productive we accepted it. But AI - it's garbage and all it does is make my system run slower. I have been in the IT field for more than 50 years, doing mainframes, minis, micros and more. I don't need it or want it. It should be an option, opt-in if you want it not there by default.
ReplyDeleteAll of that is why I finally (after years of threatening) switched to Linux. The new versions are fairly easy. The hardest thing was actually getting Windows to build an ISO into a boot drive. (That is an embedded utility on Linux.) And I read somewhere that Microsoft is declaring Rufus to be a virus, and not letting people download it.
DeleteEven the gamers are switching.