- A Chrome extension called “Microsoft to Microslop” that renames Microsoft references in browsers as a protest against the company’s aggressive AI integration.
- The extension reflects widespread user frustration with Microsoft’s Copilot AI, which faces extremely low adoption rates and growing privacy concerns among Windows users.
- Many users actively seek ways to remove AI features from Windows, highlighting significant backlash against Microsoft’s AI strategy despite CEO dismissals of complaints.
I dunno why the dollar sign version lost favor with anyone. It’s perpetually true, easy to type, and communicates far more succinctly than any screed about M$’s greed and enshittification.
It was (and is) spot on but Microsoft won the war for minds and lots of people in the Linux community started using Microsoft products like vscode and calling them good guys because they were running Linux datacenters and making kernel contributions. You were called out for being immature and holding outdated grudges.
Meanwhile Microsoft was still being Microsoft. They bought the defacto town square - github - in an attempt to control the platform. Then they mined the content to train LLMs. Now the LLMs bombard open source projects with crap. Even as Windows is dying they are trying to drag us down as well. They have always been the enemy and they will always be the enemy.
Probably lost favor due to keyboard types, lots of folks type exclusively on digital phone keyboards where the $ is a bit more mechanically awkward than shift+4. But hey we still have Michaelsoft Binbows.
Doesn’t work anymore because “money = good/powerful/special”. You use Linux because you’re a cheapskate, not because Microsoft is shit. Etc.
I definitely started using linux because I built an HTPC, realized I didn’t have a spare windows license and didn’t want to pay for windows.
I use it for both