How Microsoft became the black sheep of the AI trade - Business Insider

Even Microsoft — with billions in AI investment and Copilot built right in — is being called the black sheep of the AI trade right now. If the world's most resourced tech company can get AI wrong, no

Even Microsoft — with billions in AI investment and Copilot built right in — is being called the black sheep of the AI trade right now.

If the world's most resourced tech company can get AI wrong, no wonder you feel like you're guessing.

You bought the tool. Nobody used it. $200 a month quietly vanishing while your team defaults to how they always worked. That's not a you problem. That's a very common, very fixable adoption problem.

Here's what the Microsoft story actually teaches business owners: having access to AI isn't the same as having a use case for AI. Microsoft has Copilot everywhere. But if employees don't have a clear, specific reason to open it, they won't. Same thing happened with your team.

The companies winning with AI right now didn't pick the flashiest tool. They picked one problem, one workflow, and made AI the obvious solution to that specific thing. That's it.

Start there. Pick one repetitive task your team complains about. Just one. Then ask whether AI can eliminate or reduce it. That's your first real AI conversation — not which platform, not which budget. Which problem.

What's one task your team repeats every week that you wish you could hand off entirely?

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