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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella penned an AI-heavy blog post to close out 2025, leading to widespread mockery and a brand new moniker for the big M.
The company is now run by Copilot and its in charge of naming products.
The rdp client was renamed “Windows App”, remember? So this is a step up.
Microsoft can never name products… Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox one, Xbox series x, Xbox series s… Hell I’m currently watching agdq and can’t tell you the best one, imagine a grandmother trying to buy a gift for her grandchild. Atleast it’s Playstation 1, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Playstation 5 obvious which one is newest. Or Windows 3.1, nt, 3.1 with workgroups, 95, 98, 2000, me, xp, 7, vista, 8, 10, 11…wtf?
At least 2000 is both the largest number, and the best OS, in that group. :)
Totally agree with you, but I would say that the original name made some sense. It used directx and the code name was directx box which became Xbox. Ideally edgy for the market at the time too, I think.
Despite being an avid gamer, I’m not even sure what the release order was after xbone. Being a grandparent or parent and doing it? Fuck that.
Don’t forget the xbox one s and xbox one x, which are after the xbox one but before the xbox series s and xbox series x.
Yeah but the equivalent in the xbox series would be naming some of the games xbox too.
It’s probably a new manager for each iteration and they need to leave their mark by choosing a different name.
With windows there aren’t so many (consumer) versions on the market at one given time.
However, the Xbox stuff is so messy that me as a gamer has no idea nor interest which is the latest or more powerful (see PS ‘pro’).
It’s so fucking bad.
I’m currently having an issue on my work machine where my Windows App doesn’t close properly, and will hang the next time I try to connect to a virtual desktop unless I kill it in the task manager.
Imagine the crazy vague answers you get when you search for “Windows App won’t close”.
The rdp client was renamed “Windows App”, remember?
Wait, let me say that this is not accurate without defending Microsoft (fuck them). The rdp client hasn’t been renamed, to my knowledge. What was renamed to Windows app was the other product very confusingly named “remote desktop client”, which was a Microsoft Store app meant to access things like Azure Virtual Desktop, their cloud Windows service, etc. Yes, incredibly confusing product naming from Microsoft, as usual.
Haha that is actually even more funny. :)
I don’t understand why shareholders keep this guy’s CEO he’s absolutely terrible at his job. They need to go back to having an actual engineer as CEO, someone who understands what the hell is going on and doesn’t keep getting distracted by the next shiny bauble.
I don’t understand why shareholders keep this guy’s CEO he’s absolutely terrible at his job
What are you talking about? Under this guy’s tenure the MSFT share price skyrocketed. What else would shareholders care about? He’s doing an excellent job, as far as they’re concerned.
IMO, Satya isn’t the same anymore. His disabled child died, and he gave a speech about pushing forward to investors at the time but no longer cares about accessibility. Now, he’s got ai-induced psychosis so he doesn’t care about azure, office, Xbox, linkedin, GitHub, etc. Unless it has Copilot in it, because he’s invested in openAI.
Are you wishing back for Ballmer? IMO things were even worse, then.
But engineer don’t make dividends go up. Engineer know to reinvest, and stock holder sad not get more money.
He’s generating profit, that’s all that matters to the shareholders.
Is he?
No one is buying the Xbox, quite possibly because no one can tell if it’s a new generation or not. I don’t think any AI company has yet posted a profit. Market share for Linux has increased in the last 2 years and most of that is from people moving away from Windows.
Didn’t he start Azure? Like the reason MS have so much money still.
At making shareholder value he seems pretty good at that and that’s all that matters.
Didn’t he start Azure?
Na, that was Dave Cutler.
Yeah, he seems really, really bad at this.
“Micro$haft” and “Micro$hit”, two former snarl names aimed at Microsoft, got a real challenger.
(The dollar signs are intentional.)
Why not both names match moment:
Micro$lop
fuckin’ brilliant.
Bravo 👏
Imagine being in charge of one of the wealthiest corporations to have ever existed, and yet unwilling to write out a statement without a fucking llm
It must be hard to admit he spent billions on a slop machine. Sunk cost fallacy is probably one of many things they’re fighting.
It will become the norm. Our CEO uses ChatGPT a lot. He used it to write a Christmas email to the whole company. All of his correspondence it devoid of any personality.
Your company can save a lot of money by replacing him with an used laptop that only opens chatGPT on startup.
You are assuming that they have a personality to begin with.
Just tried generating a Microslop logo using AI. Funny how Copilot refused to do that, yet every other AI did it happily.
I love this for them. They refuse to change course so it is on them.
They worked hard for it, and earned it.
If Microsoft is now Microslop, then the CEO should be called sloperator
Copilot is Slopilot
the vice is the sloppy second
CLO - Chief slop operator.
Chief Executive SloppySir
I vote to forecfully rebrand them as Macrosoft.
Macroslop would be better
Macroslurp
Apropos of nothing, there’s a studio that makes porn games called neversoft.
it would be pretty interesting if Microsoft made the next version of Windows a Linux distro with a Windows emulation layer
With Edge running on top to render all user interface elements.
Edge running Chromium inside, loading windows web app from Microsoft website every startup
I think it’d be a full screen ai client app running on linux, probably on cage. why bother with the nt and win32 and whatever middlewares. linux is externally maintained. saved dev money can be used for power/ram bills instead.
Or throw their support behind certain distros with said emulation layers, maybe even a desktop environment like Plasma with a “Microsoft theme”.
Honestly I think it is a great idea either way.
Regardless of their commercial goals, if they put their weight into supporting the Linux ecosystem we’d undoubtedly benefit as a whole. For instance from common upstream bug fixes and increased user adoption of Linux by their remaining loyalist customers.
Yes, until they do like Google with android
Well, if they let AI write all the software I bet it will be. I’m sure it’s been trained on the Linux source code.
That would never happen. The entire reason why Windows is not as power efficient as MacOS or some Linux distros is the backwards compatibility that it brings. People laugh at the fact that you can still find icons and .dlls from Windows 95 (or, probably, even 3), but that’s exactly one of the reasons why this OS is so massively popular, especially for enterprise users.
I’m sorry but this is just not true. The legacy support within Linux is insane and it’s one of the hallmarks of the operating system.
I’m sure the shareholders will be suuuuper happy to learn that Micropilot Copilot 365 Copilot Azure Copilot Copilot Teams Copilot is now on 111% of every WinCopilot install, which will totally mean great profits.
But just in case, let’s lay off 5-10% of our workforce again this quarter just to further drive home how profitable we are!
Found Copilot randomly installed on my computer after the latest update. Couldn’t uninstall it fast enough
inb4 they name System32 to Copilot so you can’t delete it.
Watch me!
same here. I uninstalled so much bloatware that automatically installed in the past six months without my permission
they’re driving us away
Do you know why it’s called MicroSoft? The founders and CEOs decided to name the company after their penises.
🙄
Microslurp! We make software slurplier!
Agh, could you make it a little shittier?
Sure!
Microshit! We make shit softer! We put our shit on your computer, your phone, your favorite netflix server. Everywhere! We make our shit softer and put it everywhere!
That’s it!!!
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
CEO proves that CEOs can be replaced by AI.