Will Lockett's Newsletter: Microsoft became Microslop and Windows users are "flocking" to GNU/Linux "to escape the mess"

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 14, 2026

This morning: Ed Zitron: Microsoft Is A Decaying Empire That Bet The Future On Making In Excess Of $500 Billion In New Revenue Within The Next 4 To 6 Years From AI — And It Hasn’t Made A Dime In Profit Yet

Old: Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide? (By Charlie Stross)

Hours ago:

Will Lockett has published this article which calls Microsoft "Microslop" (this seems to have become fashionable and widely accepted/acceptable, unlike "m$").

Lockett blames slop for a lack of reliability, after Microsoft laid off so many "expensive" developers. To quote: "Over 2025 and into 2026, every Windows update seemed to have an even bigger bug than the last. Performance slowed, apps failed, cloud storage glitched out, core features broke, recovery tools failed, and updates completely bricked machines and caused boot failures."

He then says: "Users are fed up and jumping ship from Windows to Mac or Linux. In fact, it appears that Windows has lost 400 million users since 2022!"

It's not hard to detect this, based on many metrics. █