They already had ‘micro’ and ‘soft’. Now our friends at M$ can add low quality to the list — and they’re stuffing it into everything: the LLM system… what did you think I meant, you filthy-minded followers?
Anyway, last night I had a good laugh reading how the tech community has once again worked itself into a righteous fury at Uncle Bill and his alleged henchmen.
The whole mess started because the word ‘Microslop’ got banned on Microsoft’s official Discord server. Angels and ministers of grace, defend us! (Hamlet, Act I, Scene IV)
What these wicked eyes have witnessed: endless threads, memes, sarcasm, cries of censorship, the usual public trial.
But here’s the actually funny part.
Most of the people mocking Microsoft use its products every single day without batting an eye: they build spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel, write documents in Microsoft Word, send emails through Microsoft Outlook, spend half their working lives on Microsoft Teams — and every now and then they let Copilot handle something, which, whatever anyone says about it, is not the nuclear-grade disaster it’s made out to be.
Hell, even the social network where you’re reading this post belongs to Microsoft. But sure, keep the memes coming.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is quietly sliding in through the back door — not with fanfare, but with relentless, unglamorous execution. They’re activating Copilot inside every piece of software and every operating system we use daily, and charging us a handsome licence fee for the privilege. Copilot is becoming the invisible standard of everyday work.
It’s not the sharpest tool in the shed. It doesn’t generate the hype that GPT does. It’s not the coding specialist — Claude owns that space. It’s not the best at images and video either — Google runs circles around it there with Nano-banana2 and Veo.
But it’s the one already living inside the tools you use for eight hours a day. And it’s made by Microsoft — the company the internet has declared dead on a rolling basis — the same Microsoft that is a major backer of OpenAI.
So yes, by all means keep typing Microslop in the comments. Meanwhile, Microsoft is all around you — and especially behind you.
Quietly, as Uncle Bill has been teaching us for thirty years.
So which side are you on?
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You’re howling at the moon, cursing M$ to hell, uninstalling everything and migrating to Gentoo.
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Or you’re a pragmatist like me — because the company pays your salary and picks your tools — so you work with what you’ve got, Microsoft included.