Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella penned an AI-heavy blog post to close out 2025, leading to widespread mockery and a brand new moniker for the big M.
CEO proves that CEOs can be replaced by AI.
The company is now run by Copilot and its in charge of naming products.
The rdp client was renamed “Windows App”, remember? So this is a step up.
Microsoft can never name products… Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox one, Xbox series x, Xbox series s… Hell I’m currently watching agdq and can’t tell you the best one, imagine a grandmother trying to buy a gift for her grandchild. Atleast it’s Playstation 1, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Playstation 5 obvious which one is newest. Or Windows 3.1, nt, 3.1 with workgroups, 95, 98, 2000, me, xp, 7, vista, 8, 10, 11…wtf?
At least 2000 is both the largest number, and the best OS, in that group. :)
I tend to like every other one… 3.1, 98, 2000, xp, 7, 10…maybe 12?well see of the pattern continues.
I find Microsoft releases a good os… Gets drunk and comes up with crazy ideas… Refines ideas into usable os… Gets drunk and more crazy ideas… Repeat
I think the trend died with 10 as soon as tech companies stopped being afraid of fucking their customers over.
Edit: I saw this trend too, I start at XP due to my age but those are the OSs I liked.
People said the same time with windows 8…and ME
Totally agree with you, but I would say that the original name made some sense. It used directx and the code name was directx box which became Xbox. Ideally edgy for the market at the time too, I think.
Despite being an avid gamer, I’m not even sure what the release order was after xbone. Being a grandparent or parent and doing it? Fuck that.
I didn’t consider direct x to Xbox connection but it makes sense… After the initial release it’s insane. You want to be next generations idea of gaming, make it understandable to a non-gamer cause they are likely buying it. Hell Nintendo entertainment system vs super Nintendo entertainment system… Which is better? Which will make your granddaughter or grandson happy?
Don’t forget the xbox one s and xbox one x, which were after the xbox one (the third xbox, not the first xbox), but before the xbox series s and xbox series x.
Yeah but the equivalent in the xbox series would be naming some of the games xbox too.
With windows there aren’t so many (consumer) versions on the market at one given time.
However, the Xbox stuff is so messy that me as a gamer has no idea nor interest which is the latest or more powerful (see PS ‘pro’).
It’s so fucking bad.
I’m currently having an issue on my work machine where my Windows App doesn’t close properly, and will hang the next time I try to connect to a virtual desktop unless I kill it in the task manager.
Imagine the crazy vague answers you get when you search for “Windows App won’t close”.
The rdp client was renamed “Windows App”, remember?
Wait, let me say that this is not accurate without defending Microsoft (fuck them). The rdp client hasn’t been renamed, to my knowledge. What was renamed to Windows app was the other product very confusingly named “remote desktop client”, which was a Microsoft Store app meant to access things like Azure Virtual Desktop, their cloud Windows service, etc. Yes, incredibly confusing product naming from Microsoft, as usual.
Haha that is actually even more funny. :)
True! :)
I don’t understand why shareholders keep this guy’s CEO he’s absolutely terrible at his job. They need to go back to having an actual engineer as CEO, someone who understands what the hell is going on and doesn’t keep getting distracted by the next shiny bauble.
I don’t understand why shareholders keep this guy’s CEO he’s absolutely terrible at his job
What are you talking about? Under this guy’s tenure the MSFT share price skyrocketed. What else would shareholders care about? He’s doing an excellent job, as far as they’re concerned.
IMO, Satya isn’t the same anymore. His disabled child died, and he gave a speech about pushing forward to investors at the time but no longer cares about accessibility. Now, he’s got ai-induced psychosis so he doesn’t care about azure, office, Xbox, linkedin, GitHub, etc. Unless it has Copilot in it, because he’s invested in openAI.
Mate, have you seen the valuation of companies handling AI or hardware that AI requires?
Shareholders are creaming their pants any time someone says “agentic” or “AI”.
Oh dear. That sounds like a super-villain origin story. “I just wanted to develop an AI capable of bringing back my dead child to life!” Another broken soul with too much power…
Are you wishing back for Ballmer? IMO things were even worse, then. When they built a new version of Windows that was so bad they threw it away after a few years and botched together Vista as a quick save.
Or for Gates? Who just missed and overlooked this newfangled internet thing in the 90s until they slammed the brakes and used loads of money to turn things around?
Or the Microsoft that successfully hollowed out monopoly regulations paving the way for the tech bro style off business we now have?
But engineer don’t make dividends go up. Engineer know to reinvest, and stock holder sad not get more money.
He’s generating profit, that’s all that matters to the shareholders.
Is he?
No one is buying the Xbox, quite possibly because no one can tell if it’s a new generation or not. I don’t think any AI company has yet posted a profit. Market share for Linux has increased in the last 2 years and most of that is from people moving away from Windows.
Are you being serious?
Have a look at the MSFT share price in 2014 when he took over ~$45/share and now ~$470/share - of course investors love him, he’s 10x their investments since he was appointed.
Share price and profit are two very different beasts and only really have a loose connection to one another. Plenty of companies lose money left and right but still have high share prices.
The share price is just what the stock market feels a company is worth. It’s almost 100% vibe-based.
I’m not sure what your point is, the investors care about the stock price because that’s their money in/money out. Lower profit could be fine if they’re, say, investing 150Bn/yr into a new venture that stands to be profitable in the future (may even drive the stock price up). It’s vibes based to a degree, quite a bit of analysis goes into a company’s performance as well.
FWIW their gross profit is also up more than 3x in the same time frame.
He’s generating profit, that’s all that matters to the shareholders.
Is he?
Have a look at the MSFT share price
My only point is that share price and profit are not necessarily correlated, people mix them up all the time, so I try to correct that when I see it. I’m not disagreeing with your overall point - I would agree that most investors only care about the share price.
Yeah, I should’ve been more clear in my original post - I was trying to convey why investors would like him and just ignored the profit bit.
Their business is B2B now. Nadella is focused on that, gaming is a nice side business to him, and the home user wasn’t profitable enough to care about keeping.
Right now my fortune 500 employer is all in on Microsoft, they pay for around 200,000 Microsoft business licenses and about 2/3’s of those PCs also have a 365 business license, plus they have Microsoft servers with their own individual licenses in every state and almost every country. And that’s just one company, think about how many companies are all in on Microsoft and you can see why B2B is what he cares about.
Their business is B2B now.
That and mass surveillance such as with Palestine and Microslop’s Azure used by Israel to obscure individual culpability in deciding who to murder next.
Their business is by a vast majority in the cloud now.
Midjourney is profitable.
Yeah, he seems really, really bad at this.
Didn’t he start Azure? Like the reason MS have so much money still.
At making shareholder value he seems pretty good at that and that’s all that matters.
Didn’t he start Azure?
Nah, that was Dave Cutler.
Not correct either. Maybe my wording was poor, several people were there at the start of Azure.
Nadella is the reason it’s the second largest cloud provider next to AWS.
But he didn’t “start” it, at least not according to Wikipedia
No. But as I said my wording was poor. I should have said Nadella made Azure the player it is today and thus how rich Microsoft are.
That’s not nothing And it shows he makes money for shareholders. Why wouldn’t you want this guy as CEO if that’s your aim.
“Micro$haft” and “Micro$hit”, two former snarl names aimed at Microsoft, got a real challenger.
(The dollar signs are intentional.)
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Imagine being in charge of one of the wealthiest corporations to have ever existed, and yet unwilling to write out a statement without a fucking llm
It must be hard to admit he spent billions on a slop machine. Sunk cost fallacy is probably one of many things they’re fighting.
It will become the norm. Our CEO uses ChatGPT a lot. He used it to write a Christmas email to the whole company. All of his correspondence it devoid of any personality.
I love this for them. They refuse to change course so it is on them.
They worked hard for it, and earned it.
If Microsoft is now Microslop, then the CEO should be called sloperator
the vice is the sloppy second
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Chief Executive SloppySir
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Found Copilot randomly installed on my computer after the latest update. Couldn’t uninstall it fast enough
inb4 they name System32 to Copilot so you can’t delete it.
Watch me!
User has disconnected
same here. I uninstalled so much bloatware that automatically installed in the past six months without my permission
they’re driving us away
I’m sure the shareholders will be suuuuper happy to learn that Micropilot Copilot 365 Copilot Azure Copilot Copilot Teams Copilot is now on 111% of every WinCopilot install, which will totally mean great profits.
But just in case, let’s lay off 5-10% of our workforce again this quarter just to further drive home how profitable we are!
I vote to forecfully rebrand them as Macrosoft.
Macroslop would be better
Macroslurp
Apropos of nothing, there’s a studio that makes porn games called neversoft, and I think it’s a brilliant name.
and tony hawk games
Far as I can tell, these are different companies
. >< well the good neversoft then - the spike through an eyeball
I’m only familiar with the one that made Spider-Man for PS1.
Microslurp! We make software slurplier!
Agh, could you make it a little shittier?
Sure!
Microshit! We make shit softer! We put our shit on your computer, your phone, your favorite netflix server. Everywhere! We make our shit softer and put it everywhere!
That’s it!!!
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Do you know why it’s called MicroSoft? The founders and CEOs decided to name the company after their penises.
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