Having participated in the epic Mac vs. PC flame wars of the 90s and 00s I’m upset us Mac users never came up with Microslop.

No, but we did have a cross platform PC game about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microshaft_Winblows_98

They just announced the death of XBOX too. Microslop gonna put AI/windows into consoles.

How do they not realize once they try to ban it, it's going to stick? If they just ignore it, it might go away after a while.

It's the Streisand effect

Windows 12 is to be a mixed AI and Subscription model service.

Don't forget the windows 360 cloud thinclients they are now selling.

That turned out not to be real reporting and reputable outlets covering it retracted the story, but I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to decide its a great idea

I always used to say that Gates named the company after his dick.

That was you?!? Brilliant

Looking forward to the next Xslop

Sadly there are many users who are all in on the AI bullshit, so that likely won’t happen until after the bubble pops.

Oh really? Guess they were testing what public opinion would be. They deserve the fury of the public at least to guide them lol

I might make Microslop Winslop 13, making fun of the AI hype cycle.

slopbox?

Now you're just trying to turn me on!!

clearly true with all the time he spent on that island with those children.

So you've seen Epic Rap Battles. How clever of you.

What show is this? Assuming it is.

Sloperating system

What about the 30% code is made with AI, and Windows having major problems? Or the fact that there is no innovation and they offering just the basics?

No Microslop fits them perfectly.

JJK 3

Thanks :)

Never heard of that. It's not exactly a difficult joke to make and I'm sure I'm not the only one to ever come up with it.

It won't work, but the C-Suite will have their primary objectives met - it's got AI and Subscription, what more could anyone want?

"Bonuses all around! Who's got cigars?"

Probably because Mac marketers never thought of it. Their whole marketing strategy during the 90s wasn't even about what Macs or PCs could do but that cool people liked Macs and only middle aged business men liked PCs. Despite most of the games that weren't on both platforms being on the PC side and Macs being the overpriced underperforming one (which IMO is the opposite of cool).

I’m pretty sure Apple’s marketing team didn’t come up with “Micro$oft” more than a decade before the first ads with Hoffman and Justin Long in them.

That one was just as popular with windows users back in the day, or at least the groups I ran with.

they could 50% improve their implementation if they renamed it clippy

i personally think it was real: it was a controlled "leak" to test the waters (or to prove to the executives to change course), and when the reaction was so predictably overwhelmingly negative the executives maybe woke up a little?

I love saying Microslop because Micro$oft doesn't translate well into speech ... I use this in formal conversation with customers as a support engineer on a fortune 500 European defense contractor.