{"id":1021846,"date":"2026-07-17T10:19:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021846"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:49:42","slug":"microsoft-to-sales-team-on-how-to-make-customers-dump-openai-and-anthropic-tell-them-everyone-else-is-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/17\/microsoft-to-sales-team-on-how-to-make-customers-dump-openai-and-anthropic-tell-them-everyone-else-is-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to sales team on how to make customers &#8216;dump&#8217; OpenAI and Anthropic: Tell them everyone else is selling &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is reportedly telling its sales team to highlight what it sees as the weaknesses of rival OpenAI and Anthropic as the competition in the AI market intensifies. According to a Bloomberg report, the software giant has asked its employees to position Microsoft&#8217;s AI offerings as a complete end-to-end platform while arguing that competing products are more limited. During an internal sales meeting, Microsoft Executive Vice President Jay Parikh urged employees to focus on the company&#8217;s integrated AI platform. &#8220;Everyone else is selling parts \u2014 we&#8217;re selling the full end-to-end system. That&#8217;s the story that we all need to get out there and tell in FY27,&#8221; Parikh said, according to a transcript reviewed by the publication.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft tells sales team how to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is reportedly telling its sales team to highlight what it sees as the weaknesses of rival OpenAI and Anthropic as the competition in the AI market intensifies. According to a Bloomberg report, the software giant has asked its employees to position Microsoft&#8217;s AI offerings as a complete end-to-end platform while arguing that competing products are more limited. During an internal sales meeting, Microsoft Executive Vice President Jay Parikh urged employees to focus on the company&#8217;s integrated AI platform. &#8220;Everyone else is selling parts \u2014 we&#8217;re selling the full end-to-end system. That&#8217;s the story that we all need to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021846","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021847,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021846\/revisions\/1021847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}