What may have seemed like a lifetime of Chieftain attempting to use critical thinking to retrieve the term “critical thinking”, Hiro was finally able to get to the crux of our shared ranting of Microslop (ban this Nadella).

Fail Point #1

A recent failed (shocker) update by the OS giant prevented users from shutting down, rebooting, or putting their systems to sleep. Naturally, let’s blame NVIDIA drivers. Sure, Jan.

To top it all off, this lands right on the heels of Satya Nadella’s boasting that 30 percent of their update coding is now written with AI. Meanwhile, Copilot is being implemented into pretty much every dead Microsoft product imaginable, including MS Paint. The irony writes itself.

Their latest update, yet again written with AI, apparently decided to wipe out all Network Connections. Because…reasons.

Why not go for broke? Let’s push for an update that deletes the hosts file next. Live dangerously, Microsoft.

Fail Point #2

Windows 12: Copilot Edition, (CPU Optional).

Enough said. I’m already over this topic.

Fail Point #3

Nothing says “we’re fighting coordinated harmful spam” like blocking the one word that is being used to describe the spam-like quality of your product itself.

Microsoft swooped in to “protect the community” from the very criticism it generated into a viral meme in the first place. Genius level anti-spam strategy guys.

If you can’t stop the people calling your products slop, just nuke the whole room so no one can speak at all.

Mission accomplished so that now the only thing flooding the interwebs is how Microsoft tried to ban its own L.

Fail Point #4 (Hiro’s Capstone)

No, Hiro. I’m not bringing up the Russian hooker.

This last point was touched on by Hiro, but I did some additional digging of my own.

Microsoft has faced some accusations in recent years of discriminating against religious employees and nonprofits.

In May 2025, Louis D Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law sent a warning letter to Microsoft, alleging the company violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by refusing to recognize or allow “Jews at Microsoft” Employee Resource Group (ERG).

Microsoft primarily classified Judaism as a religion and not an ethnicity/ancestral group, excluding Jewish employees from forming an ERG and denying them the equivalent opportunities.

The Brandeis Center threatened to file a federal lawsuit or EEOC complaint describing this as rooted in antisemitism.

By July 2025, Microsoft agreed to recognize “Jews at Microsoft” as an ERG under the ethnic identity category.

In November 2025, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier publicly accused Microsoft of “unlawful religious discrimination” and “anti-Christian discrimination”, claiming the company denied discounts to religiously-affiliated nonprofits, while applying its anti-discrimination policies inconsistently.

Microsoft responded by fixing its policy stance and it seems to have been settled informally through dialogue and adjustments.

Both of these cases seem to align where advocacy pressure led to quick reversals or clarifications.

At this point Microsoft seems less and less like a software company and more like live beta testing for whatever Copilot hallucinated overnight.

But, hey, at least Paint has AI now, clearly priorities are in order.

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