So I think “AI” might possibly be misinterpreted here. When they’re talking about investing in India and AI, they AI stands for “Actual Indians.”
Reminds me of this headline from last year:
Dude i cracked lol
If Hungary’s despot didn’t ruin the education, we would also have AH, or Artificial Humanity/Actually Hungarian.
All hail the Tux!
I use Gentoo btw.
Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a vibe-coded OS at this point.
I’ve read somewhere that they, indeed, force developers to use Copilot now. So in fact you’re right, it’s slop.
And Copilot is still one of the weakest AI offerings out there based on my experience.
It for sure is.
WIn 11 doesn’t have a single feature that isn’t at least partially broken, and I think I read that it’s something in the neighborhood of 30-36% vibe code.
It’s even worse than that; it’s being vibe coded by recently graduated graphic designers with no development experience. More specifically the entire interface was created by a team like this who were, based on job announcements, all hired about 6 months before 11 was announced.
Windows 11: The Windows Vista for a new generation.
Windows Vista is incomparably better than Windows 10. Windows 11 is something else entirely.
Vista with service packs was pretty good, but the damage to its reputation was already done.
…except so much worse
Difference is that Windows 7 was out before XP support was dropped, so people could just skip over Vista. They don’t have that option with 11.
Even then, the main reason why XP also was very popular with many was the utter shitstain known as Windows ME. Some figured out how to set it up right and with what hardware, otherwise it was the worst Windows, even with XP’s own issues (concerns over obsolete-ing “perfectly fine” hardware, the UI was very divisive, stability problems, etc.).
Microslop gonna microslop.
Tbh I don’t think Microsoft’s fault-rate has actually gotten noticeably higher post-AI.
They were already putting out bad patches causing widespread issues with regularity for well over a decade. They slowly transitioned from “customer experience is key” under Ballmer to “move fast and break things” under Nadella.
I do love what Microsoft has been doing for Linux adoption though - more slop, please!
Tbh I don’t think Microsoft’s fault-rate has actually gotten noticeably higher post-AI.
It feels like the severity got worse, though. Maybe I just got unlucky.
I’ve mostly run Windows Enterprise for my job for decades.
And yes, there have always been “nothing useful is happening until Microslop fixes their shit.” days.
But the issues last year finally got me to shift even my work PC to Linux, because I felt that the Windows productivity cost shifted from “wait a day and laugh it off” to actually threatening my ability to deliver solutions.
If the descent had been less rapid, I would have just had central IT send me a Mac. But central IT seemed overwhelmed, and so Linux Mint is just working now.
Anyway, I totally agree this has been going on for decades. I’m just curious how/why it got so much worse, for me personally, last year.
I suspect all the QA engineers laid off have something to do with it, or course.
Severity definetaly feels worse, its gone from:
I need to reformat this PC to unfuck whatever windows did to get itself stuck in a loop.
to
Somehow the update did something so horrific to the hardware itself that even an entierly new hard drive does not fix the problem.
Yeah, there was a lot of these types of headlines with Win 10, especially in the beginning. It was a shitshow at first. It’s what pushed me to Linux at that time.
It was a shitshow at first
Oh, it’s still a shitshow, they never fixed anything. It only got worse at everything.
It’s just a lot less shitty than win11, so much that it looks clean when comparing.
You misspelled “Microslop”
I’m 100% sure Win 11 is being vibe coded by AI.
I get sloppy vibes from Microslop.
And this week emergency fixes for the last update that broke the ability to shutdown or login via RDP
I’m pretty sure the SSD issue was not Microsoft’s fault.
It’s just good business, cutting costs that only affects the quality of the product, but not the bottom line
It works until it doesnt.
Im happy i dont have any windows at home or work, im sad that my bank and airlines probably do.
Sloppy.
December 9, 2025
Microsoft plans to invest $17.5 billion in India over the next four years, expanding its AI and cloud footprint in the South Asian nation
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/microsoft-to-invest-17-5b-in-india-by-2029-as-ai-race-accelerates/
Microslop has not yet actually spent the announced amount so I don’t see how that’s relevant.
Blame them for firing their QA department instead.
Blame them for firing their QA department instead.
100%!
Of course, I’m sure the AI magic thinking helped them decide to fire their QA.
No, it predates AI by few years.
https://www.theregister.com/2018/10/23/microsoft_windows_10_crisis/
Good point. Of course, the “AI will solve all our problems” has been floating for a good while before any actual AI products released.
Either way, I figure it’s just another re-hash of past versions of “I shouldn’t have to pay experts, anymore.”
I work in a software house and I can tell that if you work in a software house don’t use AI! (or use it only when necessary).
I swear to God: people produce crap quality software and full into their Dunning-Kruger effect they all think they’re some sort of geniuses.
. … are all of those real headlines? Lmao, some of them are just excellent
Indeed
