
This
"....particularly considering the effort Microsoft has put into forcing AI and Copilot on any customer unable to get out of the way in time...."
Says it all.
Microsoft's latest earnings results exceeded expectations, yet comments from CEO Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood signaled turbulence in AI and execution, alongside signs of waning cloud demand. Total revenue for the tech giant's Q2 2025, ended December 31 last year, was $69.6 billion, up 12 percent on the same time last year. …
I do wonder if the EU competition bodies are going to look at OpenAI, DeepSeek, Bard and all the other shiny AI gewgaws and start actually growing a spine?
After all, it's not as if Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly of the Office marketplace and can therefore use it to force their customers to use their cloud services like OneDrive, CoPilot, Teams workspaces, etc etc etc (I'd better stop the sarcasm, for the good of my blood pressure if nothing else)
So why are you doing the best to kill it with sloppy releases, useless features while needed ones are crippled or removed, and stupid "applications" like the new Outlook? If all people can do is run a web application, they can do it on other platforms - and other clouds. Are people using more Microsoft applications on platforms you don't control, like mobile?