Microsoft CEO resorts to blogging in defense of AI

by juujianon 1/4/2026, 5:08 PMwith 74 comments

by ronbentonon 1/4/2026, 5:57 PM

It appears people are now using the term "Microslop" which I find funny. I'm not in any way an anti-AI absolutist but I do get annoyed by how Microsoft has jammed it into every nook and cranny of their product suite.

by aleccoon 1/4/2026, 5:46 PM

I'm very happy Nadella is driving Microsoft to the ground with the help of Suleyman, Panay, and a bunch of other incompetent people.

by Yizahion 1/5/2026, 10:33 AM

Satya publishes his thoughts on some custom platform? What happened to the Big Beautiful Linkedin? I thought it was, ahem - "From cybersecurity insiders, to agriculture experts, to thought leaders on diversity and leadership, and beyond, the world’s experts are talking on LinkedIn.". Aren't Microsoft CEO the perfect leader to be an example and post there? Lead the way, so to say? Or did he realize that only corporate psychos and bots post there? :)

by mawadevon 1/4/2026, 5:33 PM

If you ignore the stock price and just check in on the state of windows after windows 7, you get a clear picture

by layer8on 1/4/2026, 8:27 PM

> Nadella argues 2026 "will be a pivotal year for AI.

I hope that means they’re planning to pivot away from it. ;)

by belZaahon 1/5/2026, 6:55 AM

AI could make me probably more productive in, say, Word. If it would be integrated into Mac Word the way it’s there in VSCode. Which it isn’t. But while they do that, the writing software I’ve used for 30+ years gets worse and worse devouring my productivity. Word has had zero new features in a decade and yet it looses diagrams, messes up formatting, converts diagram labels into static text, breaks references or does other undesirable things with increasing frequency? That’s not a technology issue, it’s a leadership issue.

by toomuchtodoon 1/4/2026, 5:20 PM

His share price target and enterprise valuation depend on it.

by M95Don 1/4/2026, 7:18 PM

Anyone here working in management/accounting:

Is this blog post perfectly timed for some financially important event, anual report, investors meeting or something? I'm very curious to know.

by dada216on 1/7/2026, 8:51 AM

I actually thought it was a decent post. Corporate speech for "we may start to see some real world work being done with this, still gotta figure it out though"

by tempodoxon 1/5/2026, 11:17 AM

That article is a well-deserved scathing satire. Nice to see that not everyone has fallen prey to “AI”-driven brain rot.

by blibbleon 1/4/2026, 5:28 PM

seems he's finally realised he's bet the company (and more importantly for him, his reputation) on a dud?

by 1vuio0pswjnm7on 1/5/2026, 3:03 AM

Maybe he used "AI" to help him compose the blog post

Why not