Oops! All Microslop: Or, Trying to Write With Microsoft

In my last post I looked back at 2025, considering how FOSS continues to be central to how I do my work as a university professor. I probably had hoped 2026 would be better overall, but new horrors from Trump undermined that. But I'm going to ignore all that to focus on a different horror: Microsoft, particularly at York University. Even more particularly, the horror of trying to use Microsoft to do a basic task of academic life: writing.