Microslop is going to spend 2026 improving Windows 11. It comes after Windows update quality issues and complaints about the operating system.

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    9 months ago

    The biggest problem is that even if they fix it, it will take ages for the people that left to believe it is actually fixed. We can’t take MS’s word for it… And even then we will have no trust they won’t just slip right back into this hellscape a couple years (or months) down the line.

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    9 months ago

    I have a strong feeling they won’t be removing the spying, AI everywhere, ads, and bloatware.

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      9 months ago

      Tech has long been in the era of surveillance capitalism. Windows, Chrome, MacOS/iOS(iAds, NewsApp, notarization security, mediaanalysisd, and the most locked down hardware on earth), Android, the majority of all of the apps in the various walled gardens are all out to extract, analyze and monetize every aspect of our digital lives… which is a lot of our waking hours.

      As users of these services we all need to ask ourselves if the companies who now make up the lion-share our retirement savings, who collectively dictate how we view and interact with the world really have anything but their own best interests in mind.

      Most people would say no but “what am I supposed to do?”. People really need to understand that power like the kind that these mega-corps have is only taken and basically never surrendered willingly. Vote with your dollars now and for as long as it takes to see the fall of these vile companies.

    • XLE@piefed.social
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      9 months ago

      If Microsoft walks back their use of AI in the development of Windows, that would be a major admission of failure on their part.

      But it will probably help prolong their market dominance a great deal. Because up until they started destroying their own OS, all they needed to do to remain on the top was literally nothing.

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    9 months ago

    Man… :( please don’t do that. That’s super boring. They were doing so great pushing people to use Linux.

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    9 months ago

    I personally just want a glorified calculator (that works on text too) I can trust in doing what I tell it to do. And not some “experience” that does all kinds of unspecified things in the background. But that’s just me.

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      9 months ago

      Wait, so you’re telling me Dell that you don’t want their new AI laptop? But it’s how those ahead get, uh, behind, or whatever the buzz phrase is now.

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    9 months ago

    I wake up to a bright flashing of my phone.

    It is 3am, damn I forget to turn my phone to silent.

    I can’t resist the urge, who would text me this time of night??!?

    “hey I have been thinking about you, you know I think we could work it out together. I wll spend 2026 improving myself I promise. Please baby I miss you”

    “go to bed Microslop, you are drunk and you are the one that wanted the divorce because you left me for Al” I text back frustratedly and turn my phone to silent.

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      9 months ago

      Migrating users might be a few, but they rarely go back. A few users monthly eventually become a lot!

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    9 months ago

    Let me guess: instead of improving their products, they’re going to get the US security industrial complex to silence the critics.

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    9 months ago

    Microslop is going to spend 2026 improving Windows 11.

    Why bother? Just upgrade everyone to Windows 10.

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      9 months ago

      Don‘t forget the bribes! They‘ll bribe their way back into government ministries that ditched them in no time because Macroslop is just reliable like that.