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It mostly looks like a mild slow down of user-facing release and rebrand of unpopular features.

It is not a retreat. The marketing team is just trying to figure out how to reframe things that caused public backlash.

The only thing they're rethinking is how to repackage this so people accept it. They learned a lot from this, but I promise you it wasn't the right lesson.

Microslop Microslop Microslop. Microslop?

...for now.

I swear. Society at large will never learn from Microsoft's games.

Too little too late. I'm already over to Linux now. Shit's been going downhill even before this whole AI craze went off the rails. I hope Microsoft Windows crashes and burns

After pushback from users? Or after realising how much it's costing them on the server end?

I bet they turn this into even more AI

I've won when everybody gets the principles of free software philosophy, along with other essential freedoms, free roaming, free speech, free assembly, free press, free energy, free healthcare, etc.

It's the freedom.

Free to use, study, share, change.

The Free Software Definition

The free software definition presents the criteria for whether a particular software program qualifies as free software. From time to time we revise this definition, to clarify it or to resolve questions about subtle issues. See the History section below for a list of changes that affect the definition of free software.

The four essential freedoms

A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms: [1]

• The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
• The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

A program is free software if it gives users adequately all of these freedoms. Otherwise, it is nonfree. While we can distinguish various nonfree distribution schemes in terms of how far they fall short of being free, we consider them all equally unethical.

In any given scenario, these freedoms must apply to whatever code we plan to make use of, or lead others to make use of. For instance, consider a program A which automatically launches a program B to handle some cases. If we plan to distribute A as it stands, that implies users will need B, so we need to judge whether both A and B are free. However, if we plan to modify A so that it doesn't use B, only A needs to be free; B is not pertinent to that plan.

^ from https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

I haven't won until Microslop is a company that is used in past tense.

The irony of having a copilot and right below this post

Understand that they're not doing this because of user feedback; they're doing this because shareholders got cold feet about the whole thing after the backlash (so indirectly it's still down to user feedback, but not really)

Edit: wanted to reply.

Stop using Windows any, it's a US company that's too large.

Yeah, i'm never going back to that dumpster fire OS.

According to people familiar with Microsoft’s plans

Might as well get your information from psychedelic mushrooms.

"Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift" For Now.

Give them 6-8 months, they'll shove it back in quietly in a way you can't see it happening as easily.

I am kinda glad they went to shit so quickly. If it were slow, I probably would never have gone fully Linux. Now, I have all 5 of my machines free of corporate spyware. I am having fun again configuring and learning. Thanks microslop! I needed the push.

Too late. I've already left. Never again.