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.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    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

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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months ago

      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?

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      2 months ago

      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”.

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      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.

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    2 months ago

    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.

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    2 months ago

    “Micro$haft” and “Micro$hit”, two former snarl names aimed at Microsoft, got a real challenger.

    (The dollar signs are intentional.)

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    2 months ago

    Found Copilot randomly installed on my computer after the latest update. Couldn’t uninstall it fast enough

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    2 months ago

    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.

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      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.

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    2 months ago

    it would be pretty interesting if Microsoft made the next version of Windows a Linux distro with a Windows emulation layer

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      2 months ago

      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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        2 months ago

        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.

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          2 months ago

          Linux has excellent legacy support for Linux.

          Now run a 1998 obscure Windows vendor custom app. The vendor went out of business 30 years ago.

          Not to mention that it would kill the entirety of existing IT automation, the entirety of centralised system management, and lots more.

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    2 months ago

    Do you know why it’s called MicroSoft? The founders and CEOs decided to name the company after their penises.