How will this one be called? Also Copilot? Slopilot?
this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2026
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Edge Pro Express Home Edition with Teams for Friends and Family 2027.
People will still use it once to download another browser.
winget install Mozilla.Firefox
winget install Google.Chrome
curl -L -o ubuntu.iso https://releases.ubuntu.com/22.04/ubuntu-22.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso
Yeah. This is better.
I have a USB-bootable thumbdrive with Ubuntu 24 on it. Two home systems down, two to go.
My chief concern is that this wave of enshitifiation will eventually make it to Microsoft's security support. Historically, at least recently, the weekly updates and response to critical vulnerabilities and virus scanning have been pretty good. But now that they're attacking their own flagship products - Office and Windows itself - I think it's only a matter of time before they fumble Windows security in a big way.
I'll also predict that Non-pro Windows will eventually be "free" (as in beer), but will be useless without a live internet connection and cloud services. So now really is the time to switch. IMO, all the money points in that direction.
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Slodge?
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M$ has done more to convince people that AI is bullshit than anyone else and I just want to thank them for their hard work.
Get ready for:
clicks hyperlink
Entire page is scraped and sent to copilot LLM to be processed. This causes a 1.5 second delay
Then after you get passed the cookies popup and promo popup, the whole page shifts and gets injected with copilot summarizations right as you were about to click on something else.
Work forces me to use edge, this'll be fun
Work forces me to use edge, this’ll be fun
Those absolute monsters.
Then after you get passed the cookies popup and promo popup, the whole page shifts and gets injected with copilot summarizations right as you were about to click on something else.
you forgot ads. It's going to get injected with ads
I hate Microsoft edge with a burning passion, and Microslop tries to force me to use it when I click any link from Outlook
Your tools actively make my job HARDER
It is so obnoxious. Fuck Microsoft, fuck Edge, and fuck Outlook.
It does this from Outlook on android too. It's horrid
Settings > Open links in
"AI-powered browser" Who exactly do these marketing people think will be impressed by that? Is it supposed to appeal to hardcore tech people? Non-techies?Will literally anyone be swayed by that blurb?
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Edge was fine, i use it at work to further separate personal use from work use further. It's vertical tabs are top tier and being able to have the dev tools have vertical tabs is also a massive plots for productivity. However the latter is getting removed for seemingly no reason and once that's gone there's no boon to using edge anymore and I'll just use a separate Firefox profile or use some chromium browser for work.
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Imagine using Edge when other browsers exist.
I use it on my work PC and I have to admit that it's not that bad...
Yeah, same.
It's not terrible, but it feels like it's slowly becoming worse as they add new garbage. And especially if they start forcing a bunch of AI shit I'm out.
But I think a lot of people brush it off outright without really using it. Or, because it's Lemmy, anything that's not linux = bad.
Actually Edge prior to this was a fine browser. Like a lightweight chrome. It was actually just good enough to not really make you want to install a new browser unless it was your daily driver personal PC.
How can you fumble a quasi-monopoly on desktop operating systems this hard
Remember this is the same company that had a huge lead and monopoly in the mobile OS market and they fucked that up royally.
When was that? I only remember Palm having a lead, and then Blackberry, and then iOS and Android. Windows CE and Windows Mobile were never more than also-rans.
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I'm really loving this new Microslop name.
Also... looks like someone bought www.microslop.com and redirected to their own site: https://www.philipncohen.com/
Ugh, that sucks. That domain could've been put to good satirical use.
Hopefully they're just setting that up and in the meantime did this.
I would have bought it for that purpose if it was available.
“Sir, a second slop has hit production”
Renaming it to CoPilot Browser in 3...2...
Windows -> MS copilotOS
Subscription-> MS copilot 365
Chatbot -> MS copilot chat
Office apps mished to one -> MS copilot work 365
Vs code -> Copilot Code
Visual Studio -> copilot studio
Azure -> MS Copilot Azure cloud
EntraID -> copilot Access
ActiveDirectory -> copilot Business manager
Visio -> copilot processes
Github -> copilot repo management (CoRaMa)
Intune -> ms copilot manage
Planner -> copilot task management plan
Teams -> copilot communication manager
Linkedin -> ms management ads copilot
🧐 wonky enough?
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When do they rename Edge to Copilot Explorer. :)
Copilot Firefox Downloader
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Im curious how many lemmy users have edge as their default browser.
I haven't used a web browser made by Microsoft in 20 years, since I leaned how to create a web page. I saw how Microsoft was trying to take over the web by leveraging their monopoly to enforce their non-standards compliant crap.
I even took an A- over an A+ on that project because I refused to code a version of the site that would work better under IE. I just put a disclaimer at the bottom of the page saying that it was 100% standards compliant and if anyone experienced an issue viewing the page they should consider a upgrading their web browser.
I understand the Edge is supposed to be better than IE and more standards compliant or whatever, but given their history coupled with their anti-privacy practices, it makes any browser made by Microsoft a non starter for me.
Ok. It just looks the same to me other than the forced material design cues.
At what point do we stop caling it late stage capitalism and start calling it post capitalism? This is going beyond a captive market, at this point they're outright making products no one wants and forcing it on us anyway by removing the alternatives. If late stage capitalism was the offer of shit or nothing this is escalating to just shoving a tube down our throats.
Ironfox, Cromite, Librewolf, Ungoogled Chromium, Orion, so many much better options nowadays.
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This post gave me the last push to defy my employer's stupid policies and install Waterfox in lieu of Edge... thanks MicroSlop
"Seriuosly unpopular" and the base for that claim is a reddit post with 300 upvotes. Don't get me wrong, fuck microslop and edge, but this title could not be more sensationalistic.
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Microsoft aren’t content with 20 different UI styles in windows, they need a 21st. Especially after they saw the latest iOS design.
“Hey! Let’s take the new iOS design but without the transparency!”
Desperate move, desperate times.
There was almost no reason to use Edge to begin with not much changes here.
If it gets too bad, I suppose everyone still forced to use SlopilotOS for whatever reason will have to use Powershell to download Firefox. That is, until the SlopilotShell rebrand comes along.
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Did the article really not include a screenshot of the interface?
Edit: looks like the verge has some screenshots
https://www.theverge.com/news/854832/microsoft-edge-copilot-redesign-ui-features
It does look like garbage
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