Ah yes, Cortana and Copilot both suck, but surely third time's the charm. And when Scout is, inevitably, unpopular as well? We'll see what they call number four.

Oh they're making me addicted alright. I can't stop installing Linux on things. Its like a new vice for my devices

We're going to MAKE people ADDICTED by ~~making a REALLY Good Product!~~ ~~SOLVING annoying Problems!~~ ~~TREATING Customers respectfully!~~ FORCING ourselves Onto people like Donald Trump on Little Girls!

My non Linux savvy spouse is currently dual booting Linux Mint because Windows has become so frustrating to use.

Mint isn't perfect. We've run into a few bugs and shortcomings. But there's a big difference between dealing with genuine issues in an OS and using one that feels actively hostile and designed to exploit the user.

If both experiences can be frustrating, why choose the one that's frustrating by design (unless you absolutely have to) ?

microslop can fuck off.

Have they tried making it better, I feel like I'm more likely to become addicted to it if it was good.

I can't fault them for this business plan. It has worked for the opioid business professionals time and time again, for centuries!

I will never EVER give an AI agency over any of my personal accounts.

do you really wanna be admitting that addiction is your goal?

A $6 Million Jury Verdict Ruled Social Media Is Addictive.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2026/03/30/a-6-million-jury-verdict-ruled-social-media-is-addictive-now-what/

Today i tried to unbind the windows key from a computer because it was getting annoying. Tutorials pointed to the registry. I found nothing but ended up understanding why some keyboards directly have locks on that stupid key

If they want people addicted to an AI, it's going to have to be a lot better than fucking Copilot.

As slop generators go, it's about the sloppiest.

Yeah, we know

Gotta produce dopamine for that to happen. Not cortisol.

adding new "features"

look inside

enshittification

Explains why they want you to think it's also a person.

No shit, Sherlock.
And people would actually happily get addicted to an AI assistant which is reliable, safe, capable, kind, and fast.
They really should try making a great product. Then they don't need any tricks. People love great products.

Hold on let me put on my surprised look

This strategy worked so well for Bing

Did they try making it good?

Hahahaha suck it, Microslop. I look forward to your Chapter 11 filing.

Ha ha ha, no Microslop !

Scout will only be available for MS 365 customers.

Create a captive audience through monopoly or near monopoly on a given market, then charge them more for a worse version of the product, reducing costs and maximizing profits, it's always been the goal with corporate capitalism, look at the whole Copilot and GitHub situation right now.

Duh. I wouldn't have called it "addiction", but dependency was clearly the goal, otherwise they wouldn't take away classical search.

I thought that was obvious from the start.

If it's agentic it's going to burn through tokens even faster, so what's their business model?

Out of touch execs still chasing metrics instead of focusing on quality. Their desperation betrays the awareness that an end is near.

In the times we live , where sociopath billionares seem to reign, this is no surprising

At this rate I will have to do like Terry Davis and make my OWN minimalistic OS to escape this AI plague.

That shit should set off alarm bells of all regulators… but we elect people who don’t give a fuck so…