That isn't going well for Satya.

Indeed it's not: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/01/09/is-microsoft-losing... And: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-365-copilot-commer...

Tldr: Copilot has 1% marketshare among web chatbots and 1.85% of paid M365 users bought a subscription to it.

As much as I think AI is overrated already, Copilot is pretty much the worst performing one out there from the big tech companies. Despite all the Copilot buttons in office, windows, on keyboards and even on the physical front of computers now.

We have to use it at work but it just feels like if they spent half the effort they spend on marketing on actually trying to make it do its job people might actually want to use it.

Half the time it's not even doing anything. "Please try again later" or the standard error message Microsoft uses for every possible error now: "Something went wrong". Another pet peeve of mine, those useless error messages.

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keeda 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hmm, 8M paid M365 Copilot users leaked in August, and at last week's earnings call the number was 15M.

Assuming the leak was accurate, almost doubling usage in 4 months for an enterprise product seems like pretty fast growth?

Its growth trajectory seems to be on par with Teams so far, another enterprise product bundled with their M365 suite, though to be fair Teams was bundled for free: https://www.demandsage.com/microsoft-teams-statistics/

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pjmlp 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, my problem the way it has been pushed is that how it doesn't make sense at all.

Improve the workflows that would benefit "AI" algorithms, image recognition, voice control, hand writing, code completion, and so on.

No need to put buttons to chat windows all over the place.

	▲	wolvoleo 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah but it's the mainstream public that was just blown away with the LLM party trick. If it sounds like a human it must be smart like a human. So that's what everyone wants to sell :( PS: When I say party trick I don't deny it has its uses but it's currently used like the jesus-AI that can do anything.

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tomjen3 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They put it into the Azure portal, and I tried to get it to answer me what the open resource cost us in storage. It appeared retarded at first, but then I realized it didn't have access to know what I had opened or anything.

Until MS makes sure their models get the necessary context, I don't even care to click on them.