M$ has done more to convince people that AI is bullshit than anyone else and I just want to thank them for their hard work.
'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular
Submitted 1 month ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
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yesman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
shittydwarf@piefed.social 1 month ago
Tramort@programming.dev 1 month ago
I hate Microsoft edge with a burning passion, and Microslop tries to force me to use it when I click any link from Outlook
Your tools actively make my job HARDER
It is so obnoxious. Fuck Microsoft, fuck Edge, and fuck Outlook.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Edge was fine, i use it at work to further separate personal use from work use further. It’s vertical tabs are top tier and being able to have the dev tools have vertical tabs is also a massive plots for productivity. However the latter is getting removed for seemingly no reason and once that’s gone there’s no boon to using edge anymore and I’ll just use a separate Firefox profile or use some chromium browser for work.
Jhex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Edge was fine
When? it always sucked monkey balls… when MS finally gave up and turned Edge into basically chrome with an ugly theme, it was a leap forward… but they soon enshitified it so bad it quickly became a complete bloated mess
Dremor@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Firefox vertical tabs are better IMO. At least you can close them when minimized, which Edge cannot.
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
It does this from Outlook on android too. It’s horrid
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Step One: Install literally any other browser
Step Two: Make new browser the default
Step Three: Forget that Edge existsPeace.
Hawke@lemmy.world 1 month ago
- Repeat step two forever when Microsoft decides there was a problem that can be solved by resetting your default browser.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Step five:
the_q@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Step 1: Linux
There are no other steps.
Poach@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Get upset with my old tools that decide to open in edge anyway (vestiges of IE). Or the bullshit microslop pulls and opens their links in edge rather than the default.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is that not what we already do?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It certainly should be.
Anivia@feddit.org 1 month ago
How can you fumble a quasi-monopoly on desktop operating systems this hard
underisk@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
By changing from a company that produces a product for consumers to a company that produces stock value for share holders.
Thorry@feddit.org 1 month ago
Remember this is the same company that had a huge lead and monopoly in the mobile OS market and they fucked that up royally.
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
When was that? I only remember Palm having a lead, and then Blackberry, and then iOS and Android. Windows CE and Windows Mobile were never more than also-rans.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
MS doesn’t care about home users, hasn’t in a long, long time. Notice how they quit fighting piracy ages ago? The money is in commercial use.
If you’re running a Windows ecosystem, you can fine tune every aspect. If MS takes any of that tuning away, such as forcing AI, they risk killing the cash cow.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Because you think you have a full monopoly and everyone has no option but to put up with it.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 month ago
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m really loving this new Microslop name.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ugh, that sucks. That domain could’ve been put to good satirical use.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hopefully they’re just setting that up and in the meantime did this.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He updated the microslop site!
eletes@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Get ready for:
clicks hyperlink
Entire page is scraped and sent to copilot LLM to be processed. This causes a 1.5 second delay
Then after you get passed the cookies popup and promo popup, the whole page shifts and gets injected with copilot summarizations right as you were about to click on something else.
Work forces me to use edge, this’ll be fun
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Work forces me to use edge, this’ll be fun
Those absolute monsters.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 month ago
Then after you get passed the cookies popup and promo popup, the whole page shifts and gets injected with copilot summarizations right as you were about to click on something else.
you forgot ads. It’s going to get injected with ads
Jaysyn@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Imagine using Edge when other browsers exist.
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I use it on my work PC and I have to admit that it’s not that bad…
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
“What is my purpose?” “You download Firefox”
garretble@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, same.
It’s not terrible, but it feels like it’s slowly becoming worse as they add new garbage. And especially if they start forcing a bunch of AI shit I’m out.
But I think a lot of people brush it off outright without really using it. Or, because it’s Lemmy, anything that’s not linux = bad.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Actually Edge prior to this was a fine browser. Like a lightweight chrome.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Who the fuck even uses Edge?
Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I used it once to download Firefox.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You will be judged harshly. Next time just use an install file on a USB, you know, like someone who isn’t a shit eating corporate shill guzzling the pendulous dong of microsoft, you piece of shit. I hate you and you deserve to be hated. Do better. Fuck.
/s, just in case…
dvlsg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I used it today to add a signature to a PDF.
Rooster326@programming.dev 1 month ago
Required to use edge by work.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Unfortunately, my workplace stuck on Windows due to specific software we utilize. We’re not bound to any browsers tho. I find it cool that our sysadmins use only Firefox. (Maybe not anymore with how Mozilla began to push AI in their browser.)
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Yeah we are too. But for some strange reason the policy I deleted from my account appears to have been deleted from my account. Goodness knows how that happened.
It’s so stupid though we have some SAP modules that actually require Internet Explorer because they’re super duper old and have never been updated. So there are quite a few users that don’t actually have to follow that policy.
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Hey now, you’ve got to use something to download Firefox on a brand new windows install.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I didn’t used to be this guy, but… LINUX.
Jhex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This post gave me the last push to defy my employer’s stupid policies and install Waterfox in lieu of Edge… thanks MicroSlop
1984@lemmy.today 1 month ago
When do they rename Edge to Copilot Explorer. :)
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Copilot Firefox Downloader
DronePirate@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Internet Copilot
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Microsoft aren’t content with 20 different UI styles in windows, they need a 21st. Especially after they saw the latest iOS design.
“Hey! Let’s take the new iOS design but without the transparency!”
Desperate move, desperate times.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Remaining it to CoPilot Browser in 3…2…
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Windows -> MS copilotOS Subscription-> MS copilot 365 Chatbot -> MS copilot chat Office apps mished to one -> MS copilot work 365 Vs code -> Copilot Code Visual Studio -> copilot studio Azure -> MS Copilot Azure cloud EntraID -> copilot Access ActiveDirectory -> copilot Business manager Visio -> copilot processes Github -> copilot repo management (CoRaMa) Intune -> ms copilot manage Planner -> copilot task management plan Teams -> copilot communication manager Linkedin -> ms management ads copilot
🧐 wonky enough?
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s Copilot all the way down.
odama626@lemmy.world 1 month ago
or, just copilot
psyc@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Did the article really not include a screenshot of the interface?
k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
The corners are so rounded wtf. And those “Explore” containers look like the Humane AI pin which failed spectacularly.
JayGray91@piefed.social 1 month ago
when did the verge has a paywall?
garretble@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Last year they started that up.
They still have free articles, though, and they label them on the home page which are which.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My company pushes us to use copilot and I end up going back to chatgpt (I use them mainly as glorified search engines, error code debuggers and coding assistants). Copilot constantly has availability issues. Sort of tough to use a site that isn’t available.
atmorous@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ironfox, Cromite, Librewolf, Ungoogled Chromium, Orion, so many much better options nowadays.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Hmm slop, edge, sludge
pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org 1 month ago
People still use Internet Explorer - oh - I mean Edge?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 month ago
At my work we call the ‘granny browser’.
headset@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Seriuosly unpopular” and the base for that claim is a reddit post with 300 upvotes. Don’t get me wrong, fuck microslop and edge, but this title could not be more sensationalistic.
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Edge? Is that the app I used to install LibreWolf?
Suavevillain@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There was almost no reason to use Edge to begin with not much changes here.
melfie@lemy.lol 1 month ago
If it gets too bad, I suppose everyone still forced to use SlopilotOS will have to use Powershell to download Firefox. That is, until the SlopilotShell rebrand comes along.
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Now when people try to use Bing Copilot app to download a normal web browser, it can talk them out of it while introducing them to all the other Copilots and their apps
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a “dump program.” We dump the things which destroy us as humans!”
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Fuckin dummies. lol
Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Im curious how many lemmy users have edge as their default browser.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
How will this one be called? Also Copilot? Slopilot?
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Microsoft 365 Copilot Edge Pro Express Home Edition with Teams 2027.
danielton1@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
It’ll just be called Microsoft Copilot.
None of you are in an abusive relationship with the cruel mistress that is Windows and her accursed family and it shows.
Personally I’m excited for when they rerelease regedit as Windows Copilot, MFS as (Co)Pilot, and Purble Place as Copilot Kids Demo.
SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
& Knuckles
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You forgot the (classic)
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
OMFG I’m crying
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Sounds like it comes with a free trial of Norton.
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Slodge?
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Microsoft Copilot App (zero indication it’s web)
VonReposti@feddit.dk 1 month ago
So just like M365 Copilot (actual name for the office app).
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Internet Copilot One X.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Image
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Slo-pilot or Slop-a-lot works for me.
termaxima@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Edge Copilot 365
They tack 365 on every product for no reason.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Explorer