{"id":1001460,"date":"2026-04-07T07:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001460"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:02:21","slug":"microsoft-hits-audacious-copilot-targets-after-pivot-to-paid-ai-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/07\/microsoft-hits-audacious-copilot-targets-after-pivot-to-paid-ai-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft hits &#8216;audacious&#8217; Copilot targets after pivot to paid AI strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft, responding to Wall Street feedback, has pivoted its AI sales strategy to focus on selling Copilot rather than offering it for free as part of a software bundle. <\/p>\n<p>Company leadership set and essentially hit &#8220;some pretty big audacious goals&#8221; for selling Copilot in the quarter that ended in March, said Judson Althoff, chief executive officer of Microsoft&#8217;s commercial business, during an internal meeting on Thursday, according to people familiar with the remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft, responding to Wall Street feedback, has pivoted its AI sales strategy to focus on selling Copilot rather than offering it for free as part of a software bundle. Company leadership set and essentially hit &#8220;some pretty big audacious goals&#8221; for selling Copilot in the quarter that ended in March, said Judson Althoff, chief executive officer of Microsoft&#8217;s commercial business, during an internal meeting on Thursday, according to people familiar with the remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}