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.
This technology fucking sucks at what they’re trying to make it do and everyone without a marketing degree can see that.
It would have been so much funnier though if nfts or metaverse was the thing that they were trying to cram into everything. Imagine booting up visual studio and having to load into a full 3d world where you are also sitting at a desk and coding on a slightly smaller screen in third person.
Imagine booting up visual studio and having to load into a full 3d world where you are also sitting at a desk and coding on a slightly smaller screen in third person.
Zuck tried exactly this though
Did he really?? I didn’t think any of that metaverse shit actually got off the ground. That’s fucking hilarious
Well he tried, but telling people to put on a headset to do normal work activities was a bridge too far for literally everyone. But it was his goal. It just crashed on the fucking runway before it attempted to take off.
the tech bourgeoisie not understanding that a full-3d vr internet where you walk around like in real life to do basic tasks was invented purely as a narrative device and would actually be shit irl is hilarious to me
Surprisingly receptive to criticism. Could have easily burned another 70 billions.
They did invest crazy amounts into their Metaverse bullshit. Even renaming the company to “Meta”. Zuck is like the prototype of Scam Faultman when it comes to techbroism.
70 billions
I mean I’m fairly certain it was the most anyone had seen Zuckerberg in a decade and caused him to begin his buff broccoli look a year later or something; so I think that was the main takeaway he learned is people are revolted by him.
isn’t that why they did the raybans thing?
I don’t know about this, but i imagine the tech isn’t there yet to make it work without like causing strokes or migraines or something.
It didn’t obviously.
Not entirely metaverse but a fried of mine worked for a company that use this thing and people working from home office need to be logged and do the meeting in that space. It’s like playing a fucking MMO while working.
Even with Meta failing with their VR shenanigans some bullshit still lingers.
i remember using this at another company that was full remote, and i do think its at least passable. it was at least very cute
They forced it into absolutely everything to simulate adoption and it still flopped lol
My login process for getting to Outlook or Excel or Word or whatever is just more annoying now as I have to navigate around the useless fucking AI splash page they injected between me and the apps I actually want. Love to have an employer mandated operating system and unaccountable tech bro decisions I can’t roll back! They unilaterally made my life worse and are burning rainforests to do it, hooray!
I refuse to use the spyware os even if I have a major inconvenience in the future
Honestly, the number of inconveniences on Linux these days is a pretty small list, and getting smaller all the time.
I switched to linux and the only downside i found so far is that the middle mouse button of one of my mice don’t work anymore.
Guarantee you that if you look hard enough you can find someone maintaining drivers for it.
yeah I’m done with it as well… i had a 4tb drive that i was using between windows and Linux for stuff like games and whatnot, but i finally just went thru the 7 hour process of copying the data to a large external drive, then redoing the filesystem to ext4 from ntfs, and moving it all back and fixing the permissions and all that.
Windows is finally dead to me… at least 15 years past when i should’ve just killed it off from my daily use
I hope all of the big companies investing into AI are seeing this shit fail, not being used, and then fail again, and I hope it terrifies them.
Wired has been running a lot of paid pro-AI content along the lines of “a small cohort of early adopters has cracked the code and if you don’t hop on now you’ll never catch up” so I’m assuming there’s a wave of doubling down coming.
will just double down as long as they can fuck over the plebs
it would be fucking hilarious to see how many people have ditched windows since they started forcing their bullshit copilot into everything
i found a script the other day that removes every piece of ai from windows 11 and i’m so thankful for it.
Windows users: “I don’t use Linux, I want something that Just Works(T)”
Also Windows users:
Could you share a link? Been too busy with work to look into it but I’m pissing mad about them trying to force it down my throat
https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
[edit] I guess this one is more specific - https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
Thank you!
Yes, i believe I used both of these! Sorry i completely forgot to respond to the comrade’s question.
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
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
On one side, cool and of course, glad to see more AI bullshit failing. On the other side, this is just normal market stuff…there’s thousands of bullshit AI products out there, most of them will fail and just a couple will succeed, that’s how business works. So Microsoft failing with Copilot doesn’t mean much, they’ll just purchase someone else’s AI software that works better and continue to jam it into everything anyway.
Yeah there’s an institutional rot problem with Microsoft where the higher ups still have that 90’s-aughts mentality of “we’re Microsoft, we can brute force our way into people using our platforms.” So anything built up internally feels like a product that skipped the “be good at launch to entrench a wide user base” step and went straight to enshittification.
just look at how long they kept fucking up with Internet explorer… they’ll just keep going until finally they either buy something people use or they’ll reskin it and say it’s theirs
Microsoft clearly isn’t good at marketing AI crap either. So buying a “better” “AI” isn’t going to be smooth sailing for them.
The very day this showed up in my work laptop and ruined office 365 I just bookmarked the things I need, Teams and Outlook mainly. Haven’t had to suffer seeing it since.
Home laptop and PC went Linux just because of the Win 11 push.
clippy at least had charisma after a fashion
We should all change our pfps to clippy in protest
lathe
Clippy is going to rejoin my bonzi buddy and sexy stripping desktop assistant
According to the Seattle Times, Microsoft laid off 15,000+ employees in 2025 to free up spending for AI.
“Investing heavily in AI infrastructure and products at the cost of everything else is proving popular amongst shareholders”
WOW! Could you believe nobody used a privacy nightmare, screenshot program?
I’m just waiting on Steinberg and Native Instruments to port their software to Linux, those are the only load-bearing software applications keeping me using Windows. They’ve been resisting calls to do so for like a fucking decade though so I’m not holding my breath.
I might have to bite the bullet and purchase a Bitwig license and see how it runs.
Bitwig runs very well. The only “issue” with Linux is that you might need to either choose a distro that ships with a solid audio system and low latency kernel (ie any media or gaming / “studio” oriented distro) or you make those changes to whatever regular distro you choose.
Oh the other issue which is more serious is that some VSTs can be annoying to run on Linux.
I’m just a hobbiest tho and have been enjoying bitwig for a while on a regular shitty mint install without problems. IIRC you can get a time limited trial for the basic 16 track bitwig with a subset of its included instruments and sample packs for free, which I definitely recommend cuz it’s quite different even to ableton let alone anything from steinberg or NI.
That’s good to know, thanks.
The only “issue” with Linux
So, another issue with Linux is that I get mystery reverb that happens only some of the time with my audio output. Just, my general audio out will just be saturated with reverb for no god damned reason. Doesn’t seem to be related to any specific program or anything, but my Zoom calls, slack notifications, youtube videos, and general audio signal is just reverb-ified.
I don’t know WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK causes it or where it comes from, never mind how to stop it from happening. I cannot verify-ably reproduce it, let alone trouble shoot it. I am baffled.
I dread the day that I am trying to produce a song in a DAW and it happens.
wait copilot is AI? I thought it was onedrive rebranded.
Both are true. Copilot is the name for their reskin of chat gippity but its also the rebranded name for office 365 which is now called microsoft 365 copilot because that makes sense. Literally all they had to do was do nothing but I guess thats too much for microshit.
That’s so fucking confusing
That’s the point
