https://news.abnasia.org/blog/posts/en-microsoft-scales-back-ai-goals-because-almost-nobody-is-using-copilot-2732
This headline nailed it! Turns out, Microsoft just learned the hardest lesson in AI - distribution doesn’t beat usefulness 😳
Microsoft’s AI Copilot was supposed to be everywhere.
In Windows. In Office. In your workflow.
Turns out it’s mostly ignored.
Recent reports say Microsoft quietly cut internal Copilot sales targets by up to 50%.
Not because of vibes. Because of math.
→ Copilot ~14% market share → ChatGPT ~61% → Gemini sprinting into 2nd place
And this is with Microsoft’s insane advantage:
Windows + Office + Azure + OpenAI access 🤯
If that stack can’t force adoption, maybe the problem isn’t distribution. It’s value.
Enterprises tried Copilot. Piloted it. Demoed it. Bought licenses.
Then, employees opened ChatGPT in another tab.
Because most of today’s “AI agents” are confident interns with no context.
So when Microsoft says“70% of Fortune 500 have adopted Copilot”, what it really means is this:
Procurement bought it. Employees didn’t.
Most importantly, forcing AI into everything didn’t help.
People didn’t ask for:
→ AI in Paint → AI watching their documents → AI narrating PowerPoint like a hostage video
They asked for one thing: AI that actually saves time, or does something humans couldn’t do before.
Right now, Copilot does neither.
Some extra link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF4VccxdNEg
Test Confirms Copilot Can’t Do What Microsoft’s Ad Shows - https://propakistani.pk/2025/12/20/test-confirms-copilot-cant-do-what-microsofts-ad-shows/
AI search engines fail accuracy test, study finds 60% error rate - https://www.techspot.com/news/107101-new-study-finds-ai-search-tools-60-percent.html
I'm actively nuking it on the work network. Windows 11 is a security breach. I'm blocking a rather large portion of Microsoft IP space. I really wish I could just kill all of it just like I want to kill gmail. Gmail has done nothing useful to curtail the spammers using bulk created emails to send spam. I get a lot from compromised outlook accounts running on some entities domain. But outlook and recall are being removed from the registry every time a machine boots or a user logs in. Along with spotlight and all the invasive ad injectors they have coded in. I haven't come up with a good way to keep deleting the cached programs due to microsoft integrating things like notepad into that push system. I will stay at it though.
Keep up the good work and happy holidays.