Microsoft has cut its sales targets for its agentic AI software after struggling to find buyers interested in using it. In some cases, targets have been slashed by up to 50%, suggesting Microsoft overestimated the potential of its new AI tools. Indeed, compared with ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, Copilot is falling behind, raising concerns about Microsoft’s substantial AI investment.
Petulance aside, tests from earlier this year found that AI agents failed to complete tasks up to 70% of the time, making them almost entirely redundant as a workforce replacement tool. At best, they’re a way for skilled employees to be more productive and save time on low-level tasks, but those tasks were already being handed off to lower-level employees. Having an AI do it and fail half the time isn’t exactly a winning alternative.
Other AI companies are just doing better, too. Windows Central reports that OpenAI’s ChatGPT commands over 61% of the market, and Google’s Gemini is now less than 1% behind Microsoft’s 14% with Copilot. That’s after a 12% growth over the last quarter, too, suggesting Gemini is well on its way to becoming the real second-place alternative to ChatGPT.
Copilot is quite literally the worst AI Agent. It’s shoved into your face at literally every chance Microsoft gets to do so, it’s poorly implemented in 99% of these cases and the models being used are dogshit. It made my work even more difficult.
If I’m coding then I’d rather use Claude and use Gemini for everything else. And no, I don’t need Copilot on my fucking TV.
At work all i have is copilot and the client/website is so bad it easily hits several gigs of ram usage and falls over the second it has to render too much text grinding my shitty work machine to a halt. Meanwhile all the management is crying about us not using copilot enough and not going faster while this shit actually slows me down
The malicious compliance side of things sounds appealing if it weren’t for LLMs being so environmentally destructive.
Like with Copilot, it’s integrated into our invoicing system, and has fields to invent vendors and invoice numbers. Like in what world would you just as copilot to invent an invoice number for you.
This is my entire windows 11 work laptop right now. I’m praying that I get a job at a company that gives MacBooks for work.
We got MacBooks recently and as much as my job sucks it managed to breath so much life back into it just by having a fun device to use. This was a company stuck on windows xp when windows 10 came out so it was a surprising move. M4 macbook pro is a monster of a machine. Still heavily dependant on Microsoft products though and kinda puts a thorn in the works of most of our spreadsheets still use activex for some reason
Literally stopped using Windows