I should state for the record that I think LLMs and other forms of AI have some valid and worthwhile uses, and that *none* of them should be tied to big tech or capitalism.

See things like:
- accessibility
- some types of research
- spell-check and predictive keyboards
- spam/scam filtering

Please tell me this is made up. I'm starting to read posts on Microslop, so I'm guessing it is real, but I do have a tiny bit of hope that MICROS~1 didn't do something this stupid...

Ah, who am I kidding, this is Microsoft. In fact the same Microsoft of the free webmail service "Outlook", of the mail client "Outlook" and of the webmail for Exchange "Outlook", and I'm probably forgetting something else they've named "Outlook" too. So naming choices certainly aren't their strong suit.

#Microslop

@draeath @autolycos I personally rarely use a tool like these in MS Office or LibO and, yeah, most of the time it's either plain text or \LaTeX.

(To me, the selling point is that I can work on "documents" in the text editor.)

... also, dark blue on a dark background? (especially the image/icon on the second screenshot, but the heading on the first is also not really standing out much from the background)

Or is my display or GPU somehow mangling these colors?

@njsg @draeath I used LaTex to write my CV a few years ago.

I had a peer review it and, well, I haven't touched LaTex since

office was their biggest brand besides windows. Killing that brand for a AI app that not many people are interested in probably won't work out so well.

But it's a bold move... Just not a smart one imo

Oh my god, is that abstract graphic representing AI tying the office suite together a paperclip??!

Microslop 365 Copilot app (formerly Office): RETURN OF CLIPPY

don't be silly, alice

microsoft don't have balls

My company had to disable Teams video recording and transcription services bc of the copilot stuff, due to security concerns. It's been more than a year and we haven't gotten it back.

This stuff is being shoved down our throats and major organizations are unable to use it bc it's so unsafe. It's making these applications pure bloatware/malware.

Honestly, it's a good time for new developers to enter the space with non-enshittified products.

There seems to be some confusion about whether it's real or not. This site insists that it's a misunderstanding rather than a rebranding of the whole office suite:

office-watch.com/2026/microsof…

@njsg

@njsg

I agree: Microsoft is terrible at naming things. Either it uses one name for everything (formerly Explorer, now Copilot) or it can't decide what one product is called for more than ten minutes at a time (Office being an obvious example).

I can believe it. And I've coded to enough of their APIs never to want to code to one of their APIs again.

@njsg

@CppGuy I didn't do a lot of research on this, it did look like there was some change in April 2025, and that that message has been there since then (thank you, Wayback machine!), but I was thinking it could well be that Microsoft has announced they are now, on top of that, renaming the standalone non-subscription software too, in a change that hadn't been reflected in the site yet (I was wondering if Nadella had said something like that).

Either way, their wording *is* quite confusing, but at this point it's the same mess as Outlook. Why do they do naming like this? Is it a selling point if the consumer can't even name what they want to buy? (Perhaps it is, if the intent is to hide the less profitable options...)

In the end, we may have to wait for the next release of the non-subscription suite to know for sure...

(I'm also perhaps skeptical of the part in the office-watch.com article which says some subscriptions only have Copilot if you pay extra, given how much they're pushing GenAI. If this is indeed currently the case, it likely it will change.)

Wait... is that... CLIPPY hiding there in plain sight? Is Microsoft finally admitting that copilot is just another useless, annoying, pushy distraction getting in the way?

"You look like you're trying to write something meaningful! Would you like me to replace that with the average of a million strangers shitposting on the Internet?"

#Microsoft #AI #LLM #Copilot #Clippy