“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

[natas]

I recently had dinner in Bellevue with an individual who holds a relatively senior position within Microsoft’s executive leadership. During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products. According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions.

Her perspective was that consumer-facing products are not the primary revenue drivers and, therefore, are not central to executive priorities. While this may not be surprising to some, what stood out to me was how emphatically she underscored that the company’s strategic focus is squarely on enterprise customers rather than end users.

That said, this business model has historically proven effective for companies such as IBM. Microsoft allocates its resources toward segments that offer meaningful revenue growth.

[ralferoo]

Hehe, this reminds me of 30 years ago when people used to stylise it as Micro$oft or creatively misspell it as Microshaft, etc. Even on the Amiga, there was the filesystem that could read PC format disks that was called MessyDos. It just seems like the next generation has discovered what an easy name it is to make puns from.

[st_goliath]

If you're German-speaking: "Klopilot" and "Vibrierkot" are some modern day personal favorites.

On a similar, nostalgic note, I recall boot screens for "Sinnlos 98" floating around, back when modifying the bootup logo was a thing.

[athenot]

One of my favorites being Micros~1, in reference to how Windows had to mangle file names for DOS's 8+3 character limit.

[dec0dedab0de]

I used M$ at work the other day by accident, I was like ooh wait this isn't turn of the century slashdot.

[riffraff]

Last week on a comedy show (the daily show) they made a joke about bill gates "micro and soft" which was old in the 90s already, so I can confirm this is the case.

[wasting_time]

MS-DOS itself is derived from QDOS, which stands for "Quick and Dirty Operating System".

Things only went downhill from there.

[wincy]

Orgs have had sensitive skin like this for a long time. Gamespy was a service for launching and playing multiplayer games with lobbies before Steam, and if you “accidentally” typed “GaySpy” (it was the early 2000s) it would autocorrect to “GameSpy” by the time it appeared in your messages.

[Lammy]

“i'll spell it MICRO$LOTH WINBLOWS in a DELICIOUS TWIST” https://leisuretown.com/library/qac/25.jpg

[henriquecm8]

In Brazil people used to say "Ruindows", which is a play with the portuguese word for bad.

[fluoridation]

Don't forget Windoze.

[ToucanLoucan]

Been in this industry since I graduated college, I have never stopped using Micro$oft or Microshaft. Also a fan of M$, Winblows…

Thank goodness their employees have time to crack down on people making fun of them on fucking Discord. That should definitely be the priority of a multi-trillion dollar software company, is making sure your users aren’t mocking you. We don’t need a taskbar that works reliably or anything.

[ajxs]

I actually still have one of these shirts in a box somewhere: https://www.kmfms.com

[bitwize]

My favorite nickname for MS-DOS is "Domestos" (pronounced /də ˈmɛs ˌtɒs/) which is a brand of bathroom cleanee from the UK.

[robotnikman]

I'm starting to use Micro$lop now

[matheusmoreira]

I remember one meme image that contained a bar chart where the X axis had Gahnoo Linux and Migrosoft Wendys and the Y axis was just labeled "good". Gahnoo Linux maxed out the good while Migrosoft Wendys bottomed out.

[tonoto]

It amazes me that 2026 corporations still choose MS Windows as their base for operations.. together with the Mordor 365 as the mail platform.

[cirelli94]

As an italian, I like Winzoz, a fusion between Windows and "zozzeria", filth.

[quadruple]

What community is there to house around Microsoft Copilot? Seriously, why does Microsoft Copilot need a Discord Server? What do I talk about when I join the Microsoft Copilot server? What are we doing here?

[Havoc]

Don’t they have better things to do? Maybe vibecode a taskbar that moves when you try to move away the mouse over it or perhaps a windows 12 installation procedure that requires a fecal sample and iris scan?

[ppap3]

I don't take this lightly. These are the folks who are doing what they can to be part of the government. They simply cannot take criticism and this seems to be a pattern moving forward.

[autoexec]

So in other words they'll fit right in

[worik]

> These are the folks who are doing what they can to be part of the government.

Not really. They want real power

[mythz]

Yeah ban the use of a catchy catch-phrase as you continue to shove AI down your user-base - that'll work. Streisand would be proud.

[MarleTangible]

Most HN readers would now, but in the case somebody new reads it.

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

> The Streisand effect describes a situation where an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information results in the unintended consequence of the effort instead increasing public awareness of the information.

[oxag3n]

Thank you Microsoft for the The Streisand effect - I've added the "Microslop" to my vocabulary.

[lpcvoid]

Microslop doing Microslop things

[shevy-java]

That is actually hilarious. Microsoft does not understand the Barbara Streisand effect. I did use microslop before, simply because it makes sense, irrespective of Microsoft - but now I'll actually help the Barbara Streisand effect, because clearly Microsoft WANTS everyone to learn the new word!

Censorship gets counter-banned, Microsoft, company known to have turned Win11 into Win-microslop.

[JohnMakin]

Classic Streisand effect - I had never, and probably would have never encountered this term, and now I have, and I am incorporating it into my vocabulary.

Why listen to user feedback when you can do stuff like this? Way too funny.

[petepete]

Why is Microsoft using Discord and not Teams?

[dessimus]

So non-employees join and provide free support to other users without having to pay them.

[Maken]

Why would anyone use Teams?

[Hamuko]

Dogfooding only works when the dog food is edible.

[hinkley]

Same reason MS used a Perforce fork instead of Source Safe. Because the dogfood tastes terrible.

One of the executives at the late, great, Sun Microsystems once dunked hard on Microsoft by saying, "At Sun we don't make dogfood. We prefer to refer to it as, 'flying our own airplanes.'"

[yoyohello13]

Microsoft employees largely use Macs, so no surprise.

[withinboredom]

Discord is owned by Microsoft IIRC.

[ineedasername]

Oh no, how will people signal that some functionality or product in general is what they'd previously been referring as Mircolosp? er, Microsolps. wait, that's not it either, Macroslop. Micro$lop. Microsplo. Sorry, so many typos! but you know what I mean.

[isodev]

This just means I'm going to say microslop in random places - documents, slides, emails and Teams chats. "Copilot 365" is welcome to give me a red squigly all it wants.

[throwaway85825]

AI valuation is based on vibes not fundamentals. If the vibes are bad it could tank valuations. That's why theyre so sensitive.

[i7l]

https://microslop.com/

[bombela]

The header takes half the page. It's very annoying, and as such not really funny.

[grayhatter]

Someone needs to edit this title to change the first word to MicroSlop

I've never called them MircoSlop before, I haven't even written the word. But it's now my exclusive word for the company.

All I can hear is, it's working.

[bilekas]

So this is the company pushing to be an integral part of everyone's lives, forcing it down everyone's throat without consent.

And they're already moderation a light hearted joke about their low quality products.

Doesn't really bode well for the future product Vision.

[raxxorraxor]

Was hitting too close to home it seems...

But to be fair, corporate discords have to be like that. Why not create your own channel with your colleagues instead? This discussion would be "private" and corporate can just ignore it.

[blitzar]

> create your own channel with your colleagues instead

Dont even think about it ... it will be private till it isnt then, it will be the reason you are fired. Its corpo world - shut your mouth and dont put anything on a permanent record you dont have to.

[oytis]

Like, why have a public discussion if we can have a private one? Public discussions are important, especially as AI is largely a political project

[criddell]

If I were to bet on what would get a Microsoft Discord server shut down, I would have put money on discussions of the ties between Microsoft executives and Epstein. They should be happy if the worst thing that's happening is a mildly deragatory nickname.

[hwers]

The default of making a public discord for your project/company always seemed like a bad idea anyway. It’ll always devolve into some drama or distracting overhead to moderate it

[BLKNSLVR]

I think we've found the 2026 word of the year already!

Let's get it out there and make this happen!