"Microsoft 365 has more than 450 million paid commercial seats. After roughly two years on the market, Copilot has converted approximately 15 million of them into paying users. That's a 3.3% conversion rate, at $30 per user per month, generating roughly $5.4 billion in annual revenue. That's less than what Microsoft spent on infrastructure in a single quarter (3)."
None of the numbers make economic sense.
Actually, it does make sense.
Apple Computer, was losing money rapidly, but gave schools free or discounted Apple PCs for decades. People said that doing so made no financial scenes.
Today, all those kids are grown and use Apple devices at home.
(Honestly, I didn't see a PC in a school until I was in high school.)
Microsoft is going to shove Microsoft 365 onto users, including OneDrive. Your kids will see this. You'll use this because your work will require it, and your kids will see you use it whenever you bring work home. And just like Apple, they're already trying to give this to schools too.
The same way Google saved Chromebooks during the pandemic, giving free and discounted Chromebooks to schools, and now a whole generation wants to use Chromebooks.
indeed.
get a whole generation hooked on using chatgpt/copilot to find or check facts ...
... and you control the public discourse and manufacture consent like nothing before
which is why some suspect the US gov is very happy for google/microsoft/meta to act like surveillance agencies ... because they do it on their behalf
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