Technology

I just got a colonoscopy and the doc said she found some copilot in there

Microslop going full "the beatings will continue until morale improves" with their ensloppification of everything they touch, I see.

At this pace Microsoft will change Windows' name to Copilot. That's my prediction.

Holy shit, just fucking stop

When I wanted the file search to not suck I didn’t mean that.

Explorer already crashes enough without this.

Why don't they work on Explorer's awful performance and constant hanging before working in another chatbot?

You know, useful software development work?

Is microsoft secretly run by linux evangelists?

The thing is that if MS concentrated on providing a bulletproof experience, a sane licensing mode, with a low, cheap, entry bar, they would just keep being the top dog forever.

Now they are just giving market share to Linux and MacOS for free.

Soon in the Microslop support forums: "Please help, I asked Copilot for the photos of my late grandma and it deleted my entire C drive".

This is just pure idiocy and desperation at this point.

It's metastasizing. There must really be big profit and privacy-invading upsides for MS in this whole mess, since it sure as shit is not being driven by consumer demand.

Genuine question. How does all of this useless nonsense make them money? Is it all just from loans? Are they just saying "look at all the AI we're doing" and the investors are just desperate to give them more money?

I just cannot fathom how they profit from all of this. They're spending so much time doing this. For what? What is the business motive for doing this, if not to get bigger loans from their investors?

Windows, the first ever sloperating system.

Windows obsession with destroying their own file explorer is bizarre.

Gotta pump up those usage numbers somehow. Before long, it'll be on the login screen

I have to use Windows 11 for my school computer, not allowed to change the OS. I didn't realize how shit awful explorer had gotten between 10 and 11. For anyone reading this who has to use 11: there are explorer alternatives. I use OneCommander and it let me change the default explorer for shortcuts and when other programs bring things up like with "show in folder" options. I don't have to use windows explorer anymore and while it's no Linux at least it doesn't have fucking copilot and it gives me back basic control

Thank you Microslop!

Install Linux Problem Solved.

ALL YOUR DIRECTORY ARE BELONG TO US

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO PRIVATE

MAKE YOUR TIME

Yeah I felt a bit more clever this time, than just repeating, for the umpteenth time on stories like this, over the last year or so:

... People still use MSFT products?

Yeah I keep making that exact same comment... its been really easy, as a former MSFT employee, to see where this train has been headed.

MSFT is a cult, ok?

Thats the only way to explain/describe management and C Suite.

And they've been like that for at least a decade.

Just what I want: file explorer to load even slower than it does now.

Well just earlier today, I installed Pop OS on an external drive. I'll be using that to see if I can use it as a daily driver. If I can, microsoft can eat the entirety of my arse.

I can already see them brainstorming how to put that stuff in the calculator app.

At least, they don't put it into the event viewer, because its source code has never seen a change. Looks like 10 years ago and the performance is as bad as then.

Not beating the cancer/parasite allegations

All they had to do is built an actually good search into explorer, they didn't do that for 20 years and now they force this trash on us... Good thing I ditched Windows last year and soon will sell all my Microsoft shares, that company has no future or vision it's disgusting

Mhm. Shit people don't want continues to be integrated into required system applications so you cannot remove/avoid it.

Seen it comming since the integration of Edge into Windows and how it's forcibly re-installed everytime you try to remove it. Hell; even the corporate work PCs I use, which lock you out of every non-corporate supplied application such as wordpad, calculator and even the ability to see (not even modify, just view) the desktop background: failed to disable Edge (their default is Chrome). You can right click files > open with > Edge (none of the other applications listed work in any other circumstances, just edge and chrome).

Windows is dead.

I cannot understand why a user would ever want this

Linux has been very nice to me. I will look back fuck shitdows.

It’s really sad to me that everyone sees this as just an annoying superfluous feature.

Doesn’t anyone else see why Microsoft is so fucking horny for this???

It’s a fucking panopticon! They’re trying to look at everything you produce and save (OneDrive) and now they’re trying to get their hands on what you think (what you ask Copilot) and the conclusions you come to (Copilot’s generated response).

They can know and control anything they want. Imagine how deep that goes? This is way beyond fucking banner ads. This is about picking and choosing winners in the global economy. This is about knowing who will fall before they do and hedging. This is about industrial espionage and being first to market. This is about silencing all political dissidents before they even speak publicly. This is true, actual, corporate dystopian shit. This is Minority Report but janky, and privatized.

This needs to be stopped.

So glad I made the switch to Linux recently. Kept putting it off because of one pet project, but managed to get it working on Linux. My Explorer on Windows had a very noticeable memory leak.