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Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets

109 points by ramoz

by Rooster61

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I keep wondering how many things like this need to happen before the other shoe drops and the ring-around-the-rosie investment structure collapses. It's become very obvious that "AI" in its current form isn't going to turn a profit, at least not in the short term.

by boh

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Along with the Xbox app and eye tracking software that took forever to get rid of (with many-many steps--that still got reinstalled with subsequent updates) out of my "Professional" Windows installation, having co-pilot embedded in every screen finally convinced me to switch to Linux--forever.

by jsheard

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They got in trouble for tricking Office users into paying for AI-enabled plans they didn't actually want, and now they're all out of ideas.

by dpflan

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Where is AI actually selling and doing well? What's a good resource for these numbers? What are the smaller scale use-cases where AI is selling well?
I am generally curious, because LLMs, VLMs, generative AI, advances are proving useful, but the societal impact scale and at this the desired rate is not revealing itself.

by hansmayer

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You´d think after Clippy and Windows 7, they´d take the clue and stop producing software that creates friction for users, instead of removing it?

by thomasjudge

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by philberto

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by Havoc

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Not surprised. Just bought a office 365 sub that comes with 60 AI tokens. Cool so tried to figure out what that means.
Answer - 60 shots of generation/summarization etc per month. ie way below even casual use.
Ok so maybe the copilot chat works well if I’m logged in with my paid account then? Nope. Slow and often generates empty code cells. (The enterprise version at work never has issues).
ie between low quota and broken tech their consumer level office AI is literally of no use to me.

by antiloper

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Copilot is so useless compared to the rest, using Windows really is like trying to evade having shit smeared in your face all the time.

by pcdoodle

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