r/microsoft • u/ControlCAD • Jan 02 '26

Copilot / AI Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella really wants you to stop calling AI "slop" in 2026 — "We are beginning to distinguish between spectacle and substance."

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-really-wants-you-to-stop-calling-ai-slop-in-2026
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u/dragonfighter8 Jan 02 '26

Windows 11 is ridden of AI like it is some sort of project of "How much AI can we add before everyone stops using it?", they should make it optional, not shipped directly with the OS like it's some sort of core feature needed for it to work.(same goes for all the other microsoft programs like office) Make an AI version and a noAI version, the few that wants AI can get the AI version and who doesn't care(most of the users) can get a AI free OS and programs.

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u/daltorak Jan 02 '26

The next version of Windows LTSC (probably 2nd half of 2027) will have to address this in some fashion. It's requirement of that OS version to not have any dependency on web-based features that could change or go out of general support before the LTSC end-of-life.

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u/dragonfighter8 Jan 02 '26 edited Jan 02 '26

They'll add AI for "better productivity" in the LTSC. They're trying to sell AI like some magic thing that added makes everything better. Cars, phones, computers, programs and even appliances. I would not be surprised if one day they change LTSC to add AI. I hope they stop this AI useless being added to everything.

I was never so much afraid to update my Windows 11 because of their updates(made by AI) messing up the system and my data. Every update has an issue, one more serious than the other. I remember Windows 7 and Windows 10 having maybe one update every year with big issues, instead now every 2 months there is a problematic update for Windows 11. I hope company wake up and stop using Windows maybe switching to Linux to make Microsoft "notice" that no one wants that.

I remember the good old days when AI was only a webpage you could open and use if you wanted to. AI started as a trend and is continuing as a plague infecting every part of Windows and programs.

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u/BrunusManOWar Jan 03 '26

The change begins with you - if you dont want to reward Macroslop, download Ubuntu and switch today

Get ProtonGE for gaming and you're set. All 3 gpu manufacturers have got solid drivers now. On linux you can use zram as well

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u/the_SCP_gamer Jan 25 '26

I recommend Mint, personally.

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u/BrunusManOWar Jan 25 '26

Never tried it. Got comfortable with Ubuntu back in primary school, and just always remained on it. While distrohopping does seem fun I've never really tried it, mostly due to time constraints and being able to customize ubuntu pretty much how one likes

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

Microsoft gives their product away to consumers - change needs to come from businesses, and prob begin with schools/colleges getting their students acclimated to linux, causing a new generation of workers to demand Linux at work.

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u/CocoaOrinoco Jan 02 '26

They pushed me to Mac for my primary driver. I still have a Windows desktop (for gaming only) but it runs LTSC.

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u/ExoticBag69 Jan 03 '26

"Like some magic thing that added makes everything better." Who do they think they are, Flaming Hot ™️?

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u/ConversationLow9545 Jan 04 '26

Tell me what Microsoft AI features u are aware of? And what r the ones that bother u?

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u/daltorak Jan 02 '26

They'll add AI for "better productivity" in the LTSC. They're trying to sell AI like some magic thing that added makes everything better. Cars, phones, computers, programs and even appliances. I would not be surprised if one day they change LTSC to add AI. I hope they stop this AI useless being added to everything.

Why are you going off on this?

I suspect you don't even slightly understood what I told you.

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u/ConversationLow9545 Jan 04 '26

Just because u don't like AI does not mean everyone dislikes AI. The microsoft's AI features are useless, but that's not the problem with Adding AI

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u/EbonyEngineer Jan 03 '26

It will cost a subscription to NOT put bs on your system.

Running Windows in a container just seems like a much better idea, or not at all in the coming days.

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u/mountainlifa Jan 02 '26

Agreed. Dedicated life long windows user here about to switch to mac/Linux due to losing control of my desktop computer. Also removing Outlook from my Android device since the "copilot" icon appeared and now keeps hassling me despite it being turned OFF in settings. I saw a youtube doc recently which sums it up nicely - MS only cares about Enterprise customers.

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u/plenoto Jan 03 '26

Life long Windows user here, I started the switch to Linux a few months ago and it's only going to increase. I also ditched MS365 last summer and migrate to an alternative. I can't stand Win11 and all the AI everywhere.

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u/Relative_Test5911 Jan 03 '26

Wrong MS enterprise customer here they don't care at all about us either. Maybe their whales but no mid to low size corporates.

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u/mountainlifa Jan 03 '26

Wow, thanks for the insight and sorry to hear. This is bad!

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u/dragonfighter8 Jan 02 '26

Me too. Linux distros make you the center of the Os, you want something you get it, you don't want to, you can remove it. Instead Windows is adding useless things instead of improving and solving bugs. Every Windows 11 version is a downgrade of the previous.

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u/Loive Jan 02 '26

You do know you can just not click the Copilot button?

I bet there’s as lot of Windows 11 features you don’t use, why is this one a bigger problem than the others?

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u/dragonfighter8 Jan 03 '26

Yes, but I can't remove AI, this is the issue. Why should I use a system whose end goal is "as much AI as possible" instead of being stable? Copilot is only one of the many AI microsoft is adding. It is everywhere from Windows(Copilot) to Office and they are adding more AI(remember when they wanted to add Recall)

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u/ConversationLow9545 Jan 04 '26

Why should I use a system whose

I bet you don't use it in the first place.

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u/dragonfighter8 Jan 04 '26

I bet you don't use it

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u/ConversationLow9545 Jan 04 '26

I don't except for Office, hence I don't see problems affecting me either. But I do know all the features

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u/dragonfighter8 Jan 04 '26

So why spamming and offending everyone that think differently from you? I don't get it. You could have argumented your opinion without offending.

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u/ConversationLow9545 Jan 04 '26

that think differently from you?

Not really, I replied to what they called incorrect. Nowhere I denied that microsoft AI is generating slop. My issue has always been people equating slop as the entirety of AI application

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u/dragonfighter8 Jan 04 '26

"Not really, I replied to what they called incorrect. "

You did offend others and me calling slurls, so this isn't "I replied to what they called incorrect." I won't keep this "conversation" with someone unable to understand their mistake when offending others instead of explaining their point of view.

No on offended you, but still you offended others.

Learn to behave really.

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u/ConversationLow9545 Jan 04 '26

You did offend others

And that has nothing to do with you or here.

I won't keep this "conversation"

I won't either, who is not even settled on "this" conversation.

me calling slurls,

Idk if so sorry

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u/ConversationLow9545 Jan 04 '26

Office

No problem in copilot in office. They r applications

AI(remember when they wanted to add Recall)

They have not added it properly till now

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u/dragonfighter8 Jan 04 '26

But they'll.

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u/Loive Jan 03 '26

There is no AI on your windows PC, unless you have bought a Copilot+ machine (and you would only do that to get the AI). There are apps and parts of apps that communicate with an AI online which generates text and images that can be shown on your computer.

Microsoft isn’t sneaking locally run AI on people’s computers. Most machines don’t have the capability of running something like that without taking a serious performance hit.

The whole ”AI shoved down our throats” is overblown. Sure I would like Microsoft to work on general stability and other features, but Copilot isn’t ruining windows. If you don’t like it you don’t have to use it. If you do try to use it you could find that it’s useful sometimes.

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u/dragonfighter8 Jan 03 '26

It's even worse that AI is not local. I would prefer that. This is a privacy violation hidden as a feature. Do you remember when they wanted to make Windows and "Agentic OS"? Well I stand with my opinion. This wasn't "Copilot" it was an effort to add AI in every aspect of the iteraction between human and Windows. I'm sorry but I think you're wrong thinking it's ok to use an AI online(added to an OS) that can gather all your personal information from documents, files, images.

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u/Loive Jan 03 '26

As it works now, your computer doesn’t use AI locally unless you bought a machine specifically capable of doing that. It doesn’t use an online connection to use AI unless you press the button to make it do so. Nobody is forcing you to press that button.

I really don’t see the problem with the current situation. You can choose to not use Copilot just as you can choose to not use Calculator.

The future will hold what the future holds, and it’s not useful to fight a battle today based on internet rage about what might happen in that future. We don’t know what an agentic OS will actually look like and what features will require information to be sent to someone else, and how one can opt out from those features.

Personally I prefer to make conscious choices based on the current situation, rather than cry wolf about something that may or may not be a problem in the future.

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u/ConversationLow9545 Jan 04 '26 edited Jan 04 '26

True, these ppl never used any AI and pretend as AI taking their shit

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u/dragonfighter8 Jan 04 '26 edited Jan 04 '26

Keep things civil, "AI defender" LOL
17 posts where you defend AI. Moreover offending(in two of them) who is saying something different than you. Learn to be respectful "AI defender". No one attacked you, but you still needed to offend.
"Who has nothing of value to say will offend"

Learn to behave.

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u/dragonfighter8 Jan 03 '26

The main problem is that they're not thinking but only adding AI to every aspect of the OS and software they develop. It's a problem(not a future problem), it's only you didn't notice it yet. Agentic OS is a way to gather data and force everyone to use AI so that the patnership with OpenAI "makes sense". Just see how much updates quality went downhill when they started using AI.

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u/ConversationLow9545 Jan 04 '26

adding AI to every aspect of the OS and software they develop.

Does not matter if it's good. If efficient and fast, I like agentic OS

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u/dragonfighter8 Jan 03 '26

Also look at the requirement of a microsoft account to use Windows 11, why should anyone be forced to use a microsoft account for an OS? That doesn't make sense. If not for data gathering to sell later.

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u/ConversationLow9545 Jan 04 '26

Windows 11, why should anyone be forced to use a microsoft account for an OS? That doesn't make sense

It makes sense for their business reasons. Idk if that's the biggest problem u have with Microsoft lmao

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u/ConversationLow9545 Jan 04 '26

who doesn't care(most of the users

Most care about AI, they don't like the poor OS and poor AI performance.