[Manfred]

Why wouldn’t it be? It’s a mean derivation of their company name.

[seanclayton]

It's as insulting as M$ is

[JasonADrury]

Has there ever been a single good piece of writing that uses "M$" or the likes?

"M$" may not be insulting in itself, but it's certainly typically associated with insultingly poor writing.

[cinntaile]

How is M$ insulting? It just looks like a leetspeak version of MS.

[4gotunameagain]

It would be mean if they weren't actually vibecoding copilot & md into notepad, introducing an RCE vulnerability.

In notepad.

[TOMDM]

Why get yourself twisted like this?

They can do a bad thing, and then you can make fun of it with an insult.

Own it, the insult is warranted, why hide and pretend it's not an insult.

If Microsoft is consistently shipping slop, then they deserve insults over it; not every "bad" thing is always unwarranted. Locking someone in a box is "bad", prison is a necessary thing that benefits society. Insults are "bad" and sometimes warranted.

[FpUser]

They did not rewrite Notepad in Rust? Seems to be an easy target

[fireflash38]

Maybe they should stop insulting their users with the slop they put out and charge for then.