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It's due to both: the deranged AI push MS did in last 3 years and continuous degradation of their flagship product - Windows, for last 10.

I think no other company managed to get a punny nickname due to their questionable pursuits and actions around new trends. Tho most of them were ridiculed in memes and countless critical posts on the Internet when something have surfaced.

Also, it appears that Microslop was coined first in 1994, acc. to wikitionary [1]

[1] - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Microslop

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