Microsoft is losing the AI race, Copilot stuck at 1% market share (on web)

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/01/09/is-microsoft-losing-the-ai-race-copilot-web-is-still-stuck-at-1-market-share-we-dont-know-how-popular-it-is-on-windows-11/

by jinxmeta • 7 months ago

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Terr_• 7 months ago

I wonder how much competitors benefit from simply Not Being The OS Company, and whether that also influences Bing in the search-engine space.

If someone has very personal or embarrassing questions, they might prefer not to go to someone that "knows them" in other ways. (In this case, by bludgeoning Windows users into to making a Microsoft Account to use their computer, and collecting "telemetry.")

wolvoleo• 7 months ago

Google will know a lot more about most people. Because everything is in their cloud. Than the provider of your local OS. Doesn't seem to hurt Gemini though.

And really, Copilot the chatbot on web and windows (specifying because there's too many Copilot products to count) kinda sucks anyway. Especially the free version. It's notably worse than chatgpt even though it's just chatgpt. Whatever they're doing it, they're screwing it up.

I don't understand why Microsoft is trying so hard to promote a service that isn't even theirs, but then again edge isn't actually their own browser either. It seems to be that getting the brand name out there is the main thing they care about.

simulator5g• 7 months ago

I think its more about how Microsoft forces features on people. Remember when Apple gave everyone a free album? People hated it because they didn't ask for it. Users who manually download the album, the AI, the browser, etc are more likely to use it.

mc32• 7 months ago

The web maybe but given MS (and Google) "give away" their A.I. product with their productivity suite bundles, it's hard to know the actual usage --author admits to not being able to measure that.

rk06• 7 months ago

what, you mean pushing AI down people throat is not a good idea?

Microsoft is losing the AI race, Copilot stuck at 1% market share (on web)

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