Microslop is going to spend 2026 improving Windows 11. It comes after Windows update quality issues and complaints about the operating system.
I have a strong feeling they won’t be removing the spying, AI everywhere, ads, and bloatware. Microsoft views those as positives.
Tech has long been in the era of surveillance capitalism. Windows, Chrome, MacOS/iOS(iAds, NewsApp, notarization security, mediaanalysisd, and the most locked down hardware on earth), Android, the majority of all of the apps in the various walled gardens are all out to extract, analyze and monetize every aspect of our digital lives… which is a lot of our waking hours.
As users of these services we all need to ask ourselves if the companies who now make up the lion-share our retirement savings, who collectively dictate how we view and interact with the world really have anything but their own best interests in mind.
Most people would say no but “what am I supposed to do?”. People really need to understand that power like the kind that these mega-corps have is only taken and basically never surrendered willingly. Vote with your dollars now and for as long as it takes to see the fall of these vile companies.
As positives for them ;)
I wake up to a bright flashing of my phone.
It is 3am, damn I forget to turn my phone to silent.
I can’t resist the urge, who would text me this time of night??!?
“hey I have been thinking about you, you know I think we could work it out together. I will spend 2026 improving myself I promise. Please baby I miss you”
“go to bed Microslop, you are drunk and you are the one that wanted the divorce because you left me for Al” I text back frustratedly and turn my phone to silent.
King/Queen (whichever you prefer, frigging royalty)
Rebuild trust?
- remove all telemetry
- remove all ai bullshit
- remove ads
- open source the whole code
Then, and only then, we might start to trust again.
Please dont do step 4. Devs will get heart attacks left and right if they see that piece of shit code.
Hahahahahaha!! No, no, you’ve got a good point
GLP2 at least and reproducible builds or bust.
They can’t open source their code because then people would rather rapidly discover all the backdoors they’ve built in for various US LE and Intelligence agencies.
They’ll never read nor act on this feedback, but here’s my list:
- drop the AI
- drop the ads
- stop pushing services, namely cloud
- stop requiring Microsoft accounts
Honestly win10 was great when it dropped. Not sure why we needed 11.
Rebuilding trust for most companies means some bullshit marketing campaign. New catch phrase. Some promotion. It rarely means admitting fault and changing direction. It would take something really huge for that to happen. Perhaps a combination of AI bubble burst, leadership change, shareholder revolt.
Everything anti-consumer in Windows is a deliberate choice aimed at extracting more revenue from customers. This isn’t unique to Microsoft. They exist to make money for their shareholders.
If like me you think a lot of companies have been incredibly short sighted and are burning their brands and customer loyalty for short term gains, just look at the stock prices. Short termism is making a killing for tech companies while the rest of the economy is treading water. Is it sustainable? I don’t think so. Does it matter for Microsoft or any of the other tech companies?
I have been a customer of companies that were awesome for years then sold out and their prices sky rocketed. They were clearly bleeding customers but every time they did they just put the price up more. Some people always stay for some reason. This can go on for years. As long as they keep screwing people faster than people leave they are probably making a lot more money in the short term than they would have made with a longer vision. That is business these days. People aren’t building products for the long term anymore. Now that thinking seems to have moved to companies. Modern business leaders are about gobbling revenues up like a locust plague then moving on to the next pasture.
I read the statement as ‘We’re going to stop announcing controversial changes and spend more money on propaganda firms who will fill your social media with fake users who have a bunch of stories about how trustworthy Microsoft is’
Rebuild trust… by integrating more mandatory and default-on server-based features?
I already moved to Linux, and I’m not going back.
Migrating users might be a few, but they rarely go back. A few users monthly eventually become a lot!
MS is about to learn how hard it is to build trust in commercial markets, and why it’s a terrible decision to set that on fire for a short term profit. Honestly, it’s hard to find a better example of a company that had a more comfortable and ideal position in their market, that just decided to disrupt itself without any pressure or prompting. You wanna gamble, you gotta be ready to lose.
It should not be hard to browse local files on a computer.
Man… :( please don’t do that. That’s super boring. They were doing so great pushing people to use Linux.
You want trust? Fuck off with Slopilot and start supporting windows 10 again.
Way too fucking late for that.
Been a linux user for a solid 9 years now. Never going back!
It seems like we’re at a real turning point for Linux adoption. I’m an Apple nerd, but I love seeing people switch to Linux and write about what a (mostly) positive experience it is. Cheers to my fellow nerds getting off the screaming pile of garbage MS if forcing on people who just want a computer that works.
Microslop is going to spend 2026 improving Windows 11.
Why bother? Just upgrade everyone to Windows 10.
Upgrade everybody to Linux Mint. Problem solved.
