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
It is as if a car manufacturer decided to integrate a soda fountain in the dash of their cars. It takes prominent space right in the center of the dash. No one asked for it and anyone can easily get soda already without it if they want.
And then they put a button for it on every section of the dashboard, on the seats, on the steering wheel and even added a pedal to activate it as well and they have the car give you constant chimes to remind you to have yourself a drink.
But it serves only one brand of soda. It isn’t even that good, causes cancer and every time you use it there is a 30 percent chance it serves you carbonated horse piss instead. There is no way to tell until you took a sip. Also it has microphones and cameras that spy on you for bullshit reasons.
If LLMs have taught me anything, it’s that some people would enjoy that carbonated horse piss if a billionaire told them it was good.
Dude you’re supposed to sniff before drinking, don’t complain if you don’t care to learn how to use the tools right.
People don’t though, that’s the point I was trying to make.
I was trying to sound like an AI bro
Glorious analogy
And in doing so they took away your access to your blinkers.
That’s because if you don’t get carbonated horse piss, it’s actually just your blinker fluid!
We still need to further accelerate the AI crash somehow!
“Its not a bubble” -Idiots
the problem is that the government is buying in too. they want all the data also, except for surveillance
and just like 2008, when everyone dumps everything AI–all the bailouts for all the AIs, courtesy of yours and my tax moneys
they peddled to trump HARD, because palintir, openai is probably losing alot of money in recent years.
It made Notepad take seconds to open. Notepad. On a blank file.
Wait they put AI in freaking Notepad?!
The most vanilla ass text editor that’s specifically made to be a vanilla ass text editor?
Yikes.
It does have basic formatting options now (that fortunately don’t need Copilot) so it’s got that going for itself which is nice.
if you right click on notepad in the start menu and press “uninstall” it will uninstall the new one and you’ll get access to the old notepad
Does it start slower than emacs?
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.
All this “AI” crap sounds fantastic, right until it collides with reality.
Give anyone some real, meaningful tasks to accomplish with the help of LLMs and see how they feel about it after a week and a month. Then ask them what they’re willing to pay for continued usage. The answer won’t surprise you, but apparently it’s a big taboo to the hyperscalers.
My work is much faster with AI, I don’t use chat GPT tho, I use duck.ai for quick rewrites and Claude for code
NOBODY IS ASKING FOR AI
How do these fucking numb skulls not understand this by now, All these companies are putting all of this time and energy and money researching and developing and building data centers all for some shit that THEY want, but no consumer is actually asking for.
Nah, AI is super useful for coding. There were some early detractors, but pretty much no one avoids using it for coding now if they want a significant speed up.
No matter how clean your code is, there will be repetitive patterns that you won’t want to abstract further, and AI at bare minimum speeds that up immensely.
You add things like having faster recall than manually searching for solutions a lot of the time, and AI powered conversions, and there is a very clear value proposition.
There are a lot of problems with AI implementations as they currently are etc etc, but lets not let anger be the death of nuance.
speak for fucking yourself!
I mean, this is common sentiment.
There are a few holdouts but very few people coding, especially on things which don’t have extremely precise requirements are avoiding this.
Now that people showed a study that says the exact opposite, are you going to modify your position?
People who can’t come up with their own arguments, so they just attempt to dogpile on an already bad argument, as the very study linked literally lists exactly that it should not be used to make the argument you’re making are some of the most frustrating. Have your own thoughts ffs. We’re on “fuck_ai” and you can’t even be arsed to do that?
So that would be a “no” then.
Pretty much par for the course for an AI bro.
Calling everyone who doesnt have the same hysteric based, knee jerk reaction as you an ai bro is just immature counterproductive nonsense.
The fact that you use a study which explicitly says not to use it for the thing you use it for, but then claim its I that has the problem is almost comically ignorant.
It’s buggy and not as fast as manual coding
I mean you can state that, but most disagree. We’re very in as lemmy bubble here.
Manual coding is buggy too. If your non ai assisted code was buggy, so still will be your assisted code. I think the idea that its inherently a bug exponentializer sounds more like cope than grounded reality.
More than that, code focused llms can be much more efficient with the targeted focus and if someone desires, can be based on permissively licensed code.
Wasn’t there a recent METR study that found 20% decreased productivity with ai coding tools? Oddly enough, the people using the tools thought they were 20% faster.
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
From my own experience, they can be useful until they aren’t… and if you don’t know what you’re doing they can output convincing but flawed or downright dangerous code or suggestions. I’m not sure if it saves me time or not. Im not doing front end web development anymore so maybe the stuff I’m working on now is too obscure for the current tools?
The “not as fast” thing is confirmed by a study, which the other reply to your comment links to:
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
Also vibe coding is unsutable for junior devs because junior devs don’t have the skill level needed to debug AI code.
The study you linked that specifically says it cannot be used to confirm exactly what you are saying it confirms?
This post has a sentence structure that just smells like it was LLM generated. The cadence, the short sentences, all of it.
Similar to Bing, they force it on you and people get pissed and ignore it.
I could’ve told them that for $100 million and it would’ve been cheaper for them
Clownosoft
When big corpa doesn’t listen to the nerds that say this is a pile of shit no one wants or trust…
Was this article written by a grade 4 student
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But bruh, AI will take our jobs and will be betttah! @Angry_Autist@lemmy.autism.place Yes, I am still tagging you
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.
