Thoughts on Microsoft
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2011-07-08 19:11:00 UTC
- Modified: 2011-07-08 19:14:02 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Dejan Panovski Outs linuxize.com as a Slopfarm, Another Site That Sold Out and Became LLM Garbage
- From what we can gather, both images and text are slop
- A Microsoft Lunduke OS (LCOS) is Not Even in Top 100 in DistroWatch, Microsoft Lunduke Just Games the Numbers Like Linspire Did (and Got 'Banned' for It)
- Linspire used to send people to 'its' DistroWatch page to make the illusion of popularity
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Temporary Public Office or Permanent Personal Feather-Bed?
- there are no visible signs that the Administrative Council has the slightest interest in contemplating a change in leadership at the EPO
- Brigading Against Women - Part IV - Death Threats, Threats to Women, and Threats for Pointing Out, Correctly and Based on Hard Evidence, That Garrett and Lozza Talk to Each Other About Me Every Year (for 4 Years)
- Brett Wilson LLP too is a toxic manosphere
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- Brigading Against Women - Part VI - On Garrett and Lozza, Defamation, Attempts to Crack My Wife's Accounts, Social Engineering to Try to Take Sites Offline, Subscribing Us to Mountains of SPAM
- tried swatting us
- Links 27/09/2026: "Provost of Dartmouth Busted Using Hey Hi (AI) Slop for His Own Writing in Newspapers and Academic Journals" and "UK Government Enforcement Reform"
- Links for the day
- People and Sites Wish a Happy 43th Birthday to GNU (Today)
- We've collected some examples
- Links 27/09/2026: Microsoft Fired People a Day After Promotion, "Fragility of Online Journalism"
- Links for the day
- Brigading Against Women - Part V - SWATTING, Extortion Against Webhosts, and Lawfare Under Sworn Oath (Perjury Also)
- Matthew Garrett has no qualm about still collaborating with Lozza
- 20 Years Later
- There's a strong anti-democracy movement brewing in many places
- Gemini Links 27/09/2026: Telescopes/Gskyer, Writing for Writing's Sake, and Writing Tools
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 26, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, September 26, 2026
- Gemini Links 26/09/2026: Computer Cases Dreary, Web Drowning in Botspam
- Links for the day
- Reform UK auditor: Electoral Commission accounts, Companies House accounts, a going concern or not?
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- More GAFAM Layoffs at Apple, Second Time in Weeks (Silent Layoffs Silently Target Older and "More Expensive" Staff)
- How many layoffs happen at Apple silently and go unreported or very scarcely reported?
- Gemini Links 26/09/2026: Rant About Slop Ruining Crafts (Drowning the Signal With Plagiarism) and "Going Mechanical"
- Links for the day
- Links 26/09/2026: Microsoft Says Notification Data Breach/Surveillance Hole There by Design, EU Rapidly Dumping Microsoft for Digital Sovereignty
- Links for the day
- The Former Linux News Site ostechnix.com is LLM Slop
- Please do not link to sites that promote and/or spread slop
- Links 26/09/2026: Volkswagen Recalling ~50,000 Cars, US Attacks Its Own Media
- Links for the day
- Making Oneself Obsolete With Slop
- Dr. Lemire also puts on display a degree of hypocrisy
- Brigading Against Women - Part III - Racism Looms Large, Not Just Sexism
- threats from a racist
- Microsoft CEO Calls Layoffs "Streamlining" and Says Microsoft Layoffs Are "Great to See"
- The lack of honesty here is only to be expected from Microsoft
- Media silence deafening as Reform UK on brink of administration
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Gemini Links 26/09/2026: Travel, Group Insurance Death Spiral, Stargazing, and Lagrange Meets LLM Slop
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 25, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, September 25, 2026
- Longtime Symbol of Microsoft's XBox Franchise, Halo, Down to Barely 20 People
- The purge is huge, far bigger than submissive media cares to point out
- EPO Meeting Ran Out of Time to Discuss the Scabs ('Young Professionals')
- EPO staff representatives in The Hague meet a member of the 'cocaine cabinet'
- The Register MS Promotes Slop for Banned Companies That Put Chinese Back Doors in Things, "AI" Mentioned 37 Times in One Page!
- taking money from the undemocratic state and its surveillance outfits
- Microsoft Attacked European Courts and Jurists, Now Europe Dumps Microsoft
- This is because GNU/Linux is technically better, but the political factors contribute to that as well
- Julian Assange Ready to Talk More (After More Than a Decade of Arbitrary, Unjust Confinement)
- Two years ago, upon his release, his wife said he'd need some time off before properly or fully returning to the public eye
- IEEE Tribute to Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker and Brian Behlendorf (Revolution OS Showing)
- Live shortly
- Winding Up Racists
- What happens next shall be interesting
- Links 25/09/2026: Selling Rogue, Defective Bots as "Agents" Results in PR Fiasco and Breaches; Russian 'Hybrid Attack' and "How Russia Evades Sanctions"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 25/09/2026: Arvelie Calendar, 44net, Pebbles, and Building the Bagel Concert Finder
- Links for the day
- Large Wave of IBM PIPs, the RAs Wave Comes After 'Low-Hanging' Fruit (Families) Disposed of
- PIPs are the new RAs
- Links 25/09/2026: Carcinogen Atrazine Pollutes Americans' Bodies, "Donald the Deadbeat Does Diesel", and Anger Over Data Centres Grows
- Links for the day
- Theory That Microsoft Cheapens Its Workforce to Push Workers Out on Their Own (Theory Advanced by Insider)
- people work longer hours for less, i.e. their hourly salary is decreasing
- Daniel Pocock Makes It Into Mainstream Media Again (Going After Racists)
- American bigots funding blatant and shameless racists here in the UK
- Tackling Racism in the United Kingdom (Racism Funded by Americans) Using the Courts
- We'll talk about racism my wife and I experienced in the events leading up to litigation
- Another Woman (or Women) Has Just Run Away From Brett Wilson LLP (After Barely a Month!), the Hired Guns of Garrett and Graveley (Microsoft)
- They call this phenomenon "death spiral"
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 200 Out of 200: Will GNU Boot Undo the Technical Damage Caused by Microsoft and Garrett? (And Garrett's Litigation Allies From Microsoft)
- Today we publish the final part of this series
- US Government Sites Can Now Totally Ignore Mozilla Firefox Users or Users of Firefox Derivatives
- Firefox, now at 1.1% in the US (based on American government sites), has sunken to the point of no return
- Things Not to Measure in Quantity Alone
- More patents do not beget greater innovation
- Even Microsoft Boosters Start to Doubt XBox Will Exist (It's Being Phased Out, Just Not "Officially")
- This is how to phase out a business unit without officially saying so (as it might alarm investors)
- Omarchy is Built on the Idea That Slop is Desirable (It's Not)
- They call bots and plagiarism "agents" and "training"
- IBM is Shrinking Very Fast (Silent, Unannounced Layoffs)
- IBM and Microsoft both avoid WARN notices by compelling staff to leave or silently removing them with some NDA
- In Some Parts of Microsoft 50% of All Staff Subjected to Layoffs, Media Pretends Only 0.1% of Staff Are Removed
- This really says a lot about the state of today's so-called 'media'
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 199 Out of 200: An American Burden on the British Legal System
- A year ago (October 2025) the head of media (Jointly in Charge of the Media and Communications List), the judge in the Garrett case, said that this case was a waste of the court's money
- EPO Management Wants Everything to be Done in Microsoft Spyware
- In reality, this management should be ousted for normalising cocaine at the Office
- Criminalising Opposition to Fraud
- slop causes social issues
- The Register MS Does Not Properly Flag Its SPAM About Slop
- Signs of desperation
- Gemini Links 25/09/2026: Ljubljana, Tanana River, and Curse of Slack
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 24, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, September 24, 2026
- Supporters of winding-up process staking claims against Reform UK Party (CR-2026-007405)
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Winding-up petition leaked before service on Reform UK Party Limited / Nigel Farage
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
Comments
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2011-07-09 08:10:45
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-07-09 09:06:56
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2011-07-09 18:33:15
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-07-10 01:38:02
TemporalBeing
2011-07-12 15:21:53
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-07-12 17:03:10