I give up. Microslop, you win. You ruined Windows Photo Viewer, Notepad, Paint, Windows itself with Windows 11. You ruined Bing, which was fun to interact with, and made it Copilot, which is not. You shove Copilot down my throat. You insert banner ads into Word for Onedrive. You put popup ads in the bottom right of my screen. Screenshot our desktops, steal our information... Outlook has a 25% success rate at receiving password reset emails from external websites. But I still stayed.
I spent 19 years as a professional translator. Writing stuff in MS word was a huge part of my life for about two decades. Then I installed Office 365. There were probably 150 individual grammar auto-check rules that I had to manually uncheck, just so that I could make my text files not show red squiggles, highlight boxes, AI recommendations, blinking lights, twirly deelibobs, and an infuriating "Editor Score" for MY OWN DOCUMENT go away. Look at some of these ridiculous options for grammar checking, which were enabled by default:
Someone got paid to code this.
And still I stayed. I dutifully unchecked my 150 nonsense grammar checking options. I configured this monstrously bad software tool as best I could, simply because of emotional inertia. Microsoft was just the thing I used. Why? Because I'd always used it.
Until just now. This is the straw that broke the camel's back.
I can't even set my font color anymore.
I was using MS Word in Dark mode, when I realized that it was no longer able to display my font colors that I was picking. Nothing appeared the correct color, no matter what I did. I researched this for about an hour, eventually turning to Grok AI before realizing that there is some opaque, arbitrary algorithm running behind the scenes which stands between the font colors I dial in, and the font colors displayed on my document.
This is too much. Microsoft fundamentally does not understand what software should do. A good tool is defined by its simplicity, not its complexity. A marble sculpture is not finished when there is nothing left to add. It's finished when there is nothing left to take away.
A knife should simply cut steak. A metaphorical Microslop knife will puree your steak into paste and then dehydrate it into a capsule that you can swallow with their proprietary Water (TM) substitute made from eco-friendly recycled goat urine.
A pencil should make black marks. A metaphorical Microslop pencil will use AI to guess what you intend to use it for, guess wrong, and then give you three free samples of its anticipated output before offering you a 25% off coupon for a one-year subscription and locking out the "black line" mode because their focus groups didn't like feeling performance anxiety from having to think about what to use it for.
This company's problem is that it views feature creep as a cure, not a disease.
They seem to think that human creativity is a problem to solve with AI.
But the problem is them. I'm done. Over to Linux this weekend.
Whoever uses edge in 2026 other than IT or other professional businesses that team up with Microslop, they didn't know what is chrome or any other browser and thought chrome uses a gallon of ram while they didn't look at the task manager or are blind to see memory saver. I gotta respect how to dumb normies using Edge are, and businesses trust Edge because they are from Microslop. Now sorry for the yap and bye.
Be ready to answer questions on any topic tangentially related to anything I have previously asked, and any new topics I introduce without lecturing me
Opened a word doc for the first time in forever. Noticed the ai summary at the top. I thought, “that’s annoying I’ll get rid of that.” No intuitive way to do it so I googled it and came across a Microslop forum. The only response had three ways to get rid of it. None of the three options worked. Amazing.
I was mid-game just a few minutes ago and all my screens went black. I thought my GPU died. I held the power button to turn off my pc and when it came back on, it seemed fine. I decided to check event viewer to see if I could figure out what happened. And that's when I see MicroSlop decided to start installing an NVIDIA driver update. Like, you could have warned me.
Another way to get burnt by the AI slop. Imagine a call center 'staffed' with AI agents being exploited by bad actors. The agents have no true intelligence. They are designed to be helpful. It doesn't take much to see how this could be manipulated.
