"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.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/nadella-paid-650m-recruit-ai-170000361.html?guccounter=1

I was broadly familiar with the outline of the Afroman case, but I hadn’t been paying close enough attention to have watched the actual music videos he dropped throughout it. Which I’m realizing now was a mistake, because LOOK AT THIS

https://youtu.be/u4AiuqQpB1U

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