AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/01/20/ai-boom-could-falter-without-wider-adoption-microsoft-chief-satya-nadella-warns/

35 Comments

  1. This just reeks of desperation lol

    Edit: Also, falter at what…quarterly returns…tech hegemony on the national scale…what? It seems that every step we’ve taken forward in society for quite some time is nothing more than a cash grab and a reduction in humanity.

  2. “buy our crap product please, we beg you! If you don’t we’ll be hurt by our God awful investments”

    So we should pay Microsoft to eat shit just so they don’t collapse on a bursting bubble… Pass.

  3. ShadowBannedAugustus on

    Come on Satya, rename Windows to Copilot OS already.

    Additional billions of Copilot adoptions right there!

  4. Not a boom, a bubble. CEOs across the board are admitting they see no financial or productivity return on this garbage.

    More like “AI hype could falter,” which is why Microsoft is going to shove it down our throats all the way ‘till the inevitable crash.

  5. ScientistAsHero on

    Oh so it’s our responsibility to more quickly adopt the technology that is designed to take our jobs and replace us while making the rich richer? Fuck this guy. These people may as well be from another planet with how out of touch they are. The absolute hubris.

  6. These people roll out a tech in 3 years that is half-baked and expect a revolutionary adoption…. It took over a few decades for people to adopt cell phones, let alone something entirely new they don’t understand.

  7. How about you focus on making Windows less shitty instead?

    I bet if you poured billions into it, we wouldn’t be dealing with the bloated, buggy, security nightmare that is Windows 11.

  8. Amazingly, no one wants the AI crap that they’re grafting onto every application. Who would have thunk it?

  9. until the next ponzi they cook up to sell GPUs. its not a coincidence the tech bros that were shilling crypto are the same tech bros shilling ai.

  10. It fascinating that AI feels like the majority of consumers are saying “no thanks” while corporations are trying to force it on all of us.

    I legitimately don’t know one person in my life that uses AI regularly after the initial “look at this cool picture I made” goes away.

  11. Good fucking riddance. If MS crashes and burns with AI, it’ll be one first step towards healing from all this AI grifting. They were one of the biggest investors into it and have billions leveraged on AI.

  12. MrWonderfulPoop on

    I like AI (Claude rocks) but only want to use it when I choose. There’s no need to have AI parsing my email, contacts, files, etc. without my permission or the ability to disable it.

    It gets creepy thinking of an AI silently watching everything I do like Santa.

  13. Alternative statement, the market for AI doesn’t exist at the level required to justify or sustain the investment that went into it.

    You made a bad play, time to face the music.

  14. Can’t fucking wait.

    Useless fucking execs and CTOs pushing this garbage for no benefit (outside of the usual worker exploitation and suppression).

  15. Ornery-Conference682 on

    I’d love to see it fail, it’s driving my property taxes and utilities ups every year