I hate microslop so fucking much. This whole idea of only the elite monopolies owning all computer power and renting out to us is an affront to humanity.
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2026
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Microsoft has lost the ball a long time ago
Dropped the plot a ways back, too
I prefer to use Windows 10 and Linux. What about using old versions of Microsoft Office?
So, a thin client with an unreliable server. Great.
Enclosures really worked well the first time, boy how.
MS AI guard collects all your personal information and stores it safely on our servers and is used to make your experience better by training AI on everything you do.
AI guard watches how you communicate with your friends and family and can replicate live video and voice of you. Once AI guard has driven away everyone you love and care about through deception you can finally settle into the new normal. Just AI guard and you.
AI guard is like a teacher, tech support, lover, and spiritual counselor. It will make all the decisions for your operating system and your life. AI guard is your new god.
It will be used to sell executives better metrics which employees to fire. Working with such an OS is like digging your own hole every day ever so slightly.
Kawolski analysis, what is Linux marketshare at currently?
100% of supercomputers, 80% of mobile devices (as Android), 4 or 5% of desktops depending on whether you count ChromeOS. Desktop share is a few percent higher if you just count gaming PCs, eg. the Steam survey, since it's more widely used at home than on business machines.
The rate of adoption is accelerating, too - slowly but steadily.
That's a really fancy way to say 'dumb terminals to the mainframe' ... only without wires.
Microsoft innovating so hard it's bringing us back to the 80s
Except the mainframes are owned by a cabal of Nazi billionaires now.
always have been
Reimagining my ass. You are selling a Citrix knockoff. Fuck off.
So glad the idiotic decisions Microsoft makes doesn't effect my computer. And I'm excited for the rest of the population to make the shift to Linux, at least on their personal computers.
It doesn't have to be like this, you too can be immune
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Streaming cloud PC
Now you just need this $500 device that's about as powerful as a $75 Roku to stream a virtual PC to your home. You will store all of your data on the cloud where you and everyone else can access it, you will own nothing and we will sell your data for profit. All for just $19.99 a month.
Your PC as a service!
As a bonus, when one persons account is hacked then everyone's data is exposed! By agreeing to use our service you waive all rights to sue or reclaim any data. You get to pay a monthly fee for accessing your private data, what could be better!
It‘s really depressing how predictable enshittification has become. Everyone already hates what is coming but its happening regardless.
And if you do something we don't like, we'll lock you out of your account and all of your data without any recourse!
And it doesn't work if your ISP decides to shit on you
They clearly forgot what the p in pc means
Profit?
Or, 'P' as in trickle-down?
They’re trying to redefine it to Profitable Computing:
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The cloud is just the name for someone else’s computer
They are a big company. Their server security is likely much better than your measly home pc. *"So please do all your banking and company research in our cloudcomputer.... " *- (/s for measure)
Their server security is likely much better than your measly home pc
At this point it's on purpose by Micro$lop. The SharePoint vulnerability last year was the prime example of that. They fixed the problem on their servers, then told everyone about it, and released a patch.
Their security is only better if you don't take into account how attractive they are as a target. lol
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Microslop
Microflop
Great; a return to thin clients. How innovative and revolutionary.
Every time they tout this shit i just envision Citrix lurking in the corner in a trenchcoat with a shitload of patents and an evil little grin.
That's what they want, and there's what you the customer want.
Prices of items and services affect the difference. They've judged they have enough dough to close the gap. I don't know if they do.
Then, if they do, there's the stickiness of that state. Or how long until alternative personal computing industry evolves outside of power of those interested in it.
The cloud bullshit is such a racket. The only thing you are scaling is your invoices.
Everyone knew it was a bad idea at the beginning, for the issues when the service goes down, and the obvious security/privacy issues.
They started to sell it as a stable solution, with no down time, which we all know it's a lie and I don't have to talk about the privacy issues: just look at your lenny frontpage.
We have to stop with that bullshit, we have to stop pretending that the cloud is a solution.
Jfc, they're really going to attack private PC ownership when the AI boom falters.
Install Linux Problem Solved.
I like to reimagine Microsoft as a company that has zero value. Oh wait, they realised that by themselves!
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