Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products

Their copilot stuff is such a mess. Over promising, dressed with marketing slop on top of an under-performing product.

However; their azure offerings are somewhat decent. AI Search is getting quite decent, access to Open AI models served through foundry is quite the differentiator (although the rate limits are an issue), their reference architectures are very helpful and their ancillary services, like document intelligence integrate well.

I'm a bit worried that their marketing dept has gotten their crappifying and obfuscating eyes set on those services though, given the recent rebranding of Foundry and what not, but the underlying services are decent.

> Their <snip> stuff is such a mess. Over promising, dressed with marketing slop on top of an under-performing product.

Updated as it was almost close to being a generic comment about AI overall.

See WinUI after Project Reunion announcement 5 years ago, unfortunately fits exactly the same description, and we are way past COVID to use that as an excuse.