{"id":356428,"date":"2025-12-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=405555"},"modified":"2025-12-29T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:00:29","slug":"can-we-admit-that-microsoft-copilot-has-been-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/can-we-admit-that-microsoft-copilot-has-been-a-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we admit that Microsoft Copilot has been a mistake?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-copilot.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Microsoft has integrated its artificial intelligence assistant, Copilot\">Microsoft has integrated its artificial intelligence assistant, Copilot<\/a> into several of its products, including Windows 11, Word, Outlook, and Edge. However, this integration has created divisions among users.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Despite the fact that Windows 11 has approximately 700 million users, many still prefer Windows 10<\/strong>, citing issues such as the requirement for TPM 2.0 hardware and the perception that Windows 11 is an overloaded operating system.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The numbers are revealing: only about 33 million active users are using Copilot,<strong> which represents just 2.5% of all Windows 10 and 11 users.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Copilot wasn&#39;t asked for by users, but by shareholders &#8211; and quite frankly, it shows. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cf3wDKtBpr\">https:\/\/t.co\/Cf3wDKtBpr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; TechRadar (@techradar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/techradar\/status\/2004953541069472254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An AI that nobody uses and that costs Microsoft billions<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>This figure is remarkably low compared to ChatGPT, which has hundreds of millions of weekly users, raising questions about the effectiveness and real utility of Copilot.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>This is compounded by criticism from former Microsoft employees, who have questioned the direction in which Copilot is being developed and the company&#8217;s focus on its integration into Windows.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Despite this resistance, Microsoft seems committed to keeping Copilot at a central place within its ecosystem, which has generated frustration among some users.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Microsoft warns Windows 11&#39;s upcoming AI upgrade has security and performance implications.<br><br>Microsoft says Agentic Workspace in Windows 11 will not only have access to some personal folders, but also your apps.<br><br>&quot;Windows grants read and write access to the following known\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7tW0SDDe0i\">https:\/\/t.co\/7tW0SDDe0i<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t1LbZIH4Qm\">pic.twitter.com\/t1LbZIH4Qm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Windows Latest (@WindowsLatest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WindowsLatest\/status\/1990688960537112691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tiny11.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"The popularity of lighter alternatives, such as Tiny11\">The popularity of lighter alternatives, such as Tiny11<\/a>, which are presented as options without artificial intelligence, highlights the desire of many for a simpler and less feature-burdened operating system.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The outlook is not encouraging for Copilot. With the competition from Google&#8217;s Gemini AI, it is clear that even AI enthusiasts tend to prefer solutions that are not strictly tied to Windows.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>In this context, rumors could arise about a reevaluation of Microsoft&#8217;s strategy, suggesting that a return to simplicity in Windows design could be considered, instead of addressing the growing demand for AI integration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has integrated its artificial intelligence assistant, Copilot, into several of its products, including Windows 11, Word, Outlook, and Edge. However, this integration has generated divisions among users. Despite Windows 11 having approximately 700 million users, many still prefer Windows 10, citing issues such as the requirement for TPM 2.0 hardware and the perception that Windows 11 is an overloaded operating system. The numbers are revealing: only around 33 million active users are using Copilot, which represents just 2.5% of all Windows 10 and 11 users<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":356435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[17935],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6771],"class_list":["post-356428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-inteligencia-artifical","content-category-ai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356438,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356428\/revisions\/356438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356428"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=356428"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=356428"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=356428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}