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
Is this an actual benchmark or did you just try it once?
I ask because “time to open” can be very misleading.
Even if I make the most lightweight GUI app there is (basically just draw a white background), it can take seconds until it opens for the first time. But if you close it and open it again, it is almost instantaneous. This is because of the various caches of windows. If you just log into windows, the first program you open will always need a few seconds to display the window.
It’s not a benchmark and I had to deal with it for several days until I found the time to clean my system. Notepad now opens noticeably faster.