Comment on Microsoft keeps insisting that it's deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11
lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 days ago
This isn’t even a “lie”. It’s worse than that: it’s an empty statement misleading readers to see meaning where there’s none.
Commitment is intentions. Even between human beings, you don’t know someone else’s intentions, at most what they claim about them; so there’s no way to check if the “I’m committed to $thing” claim is true or false. But to make it even worse, a company is not a human being, it is simply an abstraction, unable to have “intentions”.
So, let’s call bread “bread” and wine “wine”: people working for Microslop noticed it’s being called “Microslop”, they know why, and they’re trying to minimise brand damage — trying to convince you that Microslop does not output slop, and that the Moon is made of green cheese. That’s it.