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Imagine training your entire life to become an astronaut, and then you finally get to leave earth's orbit on a historic mission...
But you still have to deal with Microsoft bullshit.
*Microslop
It’s an accurate name. The company has explicitly told us that they are a slop-first cloud company.
They are way more than a cloud company: Outlook, both of them, left the could stage yesterday.
Microstiff
I’ll probably attract downvotes for this, but I find ‘Microslop’ as cringeworthy as old staples like Micro$haft or Crapple.
Like, yeah, they’re shitty companies. But calling them childish names just comes across as petty and insecure, kind of like when Trump gives someone a dumb nickname.
Nah, microslop is a great name, especially because they throw tantrums about the name. It's very descriptive of what they have become.
The difference between MicroSlop and Micro$haft or Crapple is that Microsoft is actively slopifying their product. And this isn't just some PC vs Mac slapfight where people are coming up with insulting names, Microsoft actively bragged about pooping out 30% of code with AI and we have MONTHS of news articles about them fucking up their updates even more than usual (and I've been supporting MS products for close to 2 decades).
There's a reason MicroSlop responded to that and not Micro$haft. Because every big company gives their customers the shaft, but not many are actively sabotaging their product to quite the same extent as they are, so the (accurate) name really hurts the company's brand because it's an accurate description of their current output.
I can see that argument, sure. The fact that they asked people not to use it suggests it is having some effect on their brand.
Or that they're just very insecure and shortsighted and think that any negative effects on their current numbers are because of something as banal and petty as name calling instead of anti-consumer practices that drive customers away.
I've always hated that kind of thing. There's a presumption in it that "you think so, too" and fuck you don't tell me what I think.