Microsoft lowered its AI software sales targets due to a lukewarm response from corporate customers to the new product.

Executives from Microsoft and other enterprise software companies once hailed 2025 as the year when artificial intelligence would automate multi-step tasks, such as creating dashboards based on company sales data. However, as the year-end approaches, Microsoft has lowered its market penetration expectations for its new generation of AI products, no longer pushing customers to quickly pay for such products. According to two salespeople from Microsoft's Azure cloud division, due to multiple departments failing to meet AI product sales growth targets in the fiscal year ending in June, several business lines at Microsoft have now lowered sales growth targets for some AI products. These two sources said that it is rare for Microsoft to lower sales targets for specific products. This adjustment reflects Microsoft's efforts to address the reluctance of enterprise customers to pay for AI.