Microsoft Abandons Personal AI Chatbot Race with Copilot Reboot
by sbulaev on 9/25/2026, 2:07:08 PM
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by: red_admiral
> Companies were paying for more than 30 million Copilot subscriptions as of the end of June. And while individual users are free to use limited versions of Copilot’s chat experience, its most powerful tools are reserved for subscribers to the company’s M365 apps bundle, which has about 90 million paying users.<p>It needs to be more widely known that if you cancel a (home) 365 subscription, you'll be offered a cheaper version without AI integration.
9/25/2026, 4:02:58 PM
by: VCFundedGenYer
It was foolish of them to think they had any consumer clout left. Shoving 1000 copies of an inaccurate, poorly functioning, and inconsistent product down everyone's throat will someday be a case study in how to immediately destroy a brand.
9/25/2026, 4:04:14 PM
by: pseudosavant
Does anyone even want to try this? I'm a Windows user, M365 subscriber, VS Code user (when I'm not in Codex), had a Github Copilot subscription, etc... and a heavy AI user. Basically, the prime target for Microsoft AI. And every attempt Microsoft has made to put AI into a product has been unusable garbage, using the same models I find productive in other tools.<p>So many AI doubters I know hate using AI tools because their employer only gives them the Microsoft offerings. Which is a totally understandable reaction to those tools.
9/25/2026, 4:38:54 PM
by: joshstrange
<a href="https://archive.ph/XJG5V" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/XJG5V</a>
9/25/2026, 2:47:39 PM
by: TuringNYC
My blood pressure rises everytime i use Enterprise Copilot at work. It seems they truncate message history heavily (to save input token costs?) and Copilot forgets the last thing you told it in the chat. It is like a real-life version of Momento (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/" rel="nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/</a>) mixed with Waiting for Gadot (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot</a>), pretending to be in league with Anthropic.
9/25/2026, 4:19:46 PM
by: infecto
Not at all that surprising. There enterprise offering is barely acceptable and they have continued to drop the ball on having half decent Cowork solution.<p>They have all rights to win with their existing enterprise agreement but wow it’s amazing to see how bad their product cadence and decision making is. All they needed to do was copy Claude Cowork like OpenAI did.
9/25/2026, 3:54:54 PM
by: glimshe
Great! I was looking forward to an unified AI service like we got unified messaging with MS Teams!!!
9/25/2026, 4:09:04 PM
by: 2OEH8eoCRo0
Still can't believe they ditched the Cortana name.
9/25/2026, 3:47:45 PM
by: pdntspa
Again?
9/25/2026, 3:44:31 PM
by: oh_no
microsoft Product remains an unmitigated dumpster fire.<p>i think github copilot has actually gotten to a pretty good place, and of course the two copilot products will both have features called "autopilot" that do entirely different things
9/25/2026, 3:59:34 PM
by: agentnet-live
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9/25/2026, 4:34:36 PM
by: bena
Did this one become a Nazi as well?
9/25/2026, 3:28:12 PM