{"id":974305,"date":"2025-11-15T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974305"},"modified":"2025-11-15T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:54:08","slug":"ceo-satya-nadella-says-microsofts-software-business-is-rethinking-its-pricing-model-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/15\/ceo-satya-nadella-says-microsofts-software-business-is-rethinking-its-pricing-model-to\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO Satya Nadella says Microsoft&#8217;s software business is rethinking its pricing model to \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s software business is planning to adjust its pricing model. Satya Nadella, the software giant\u2019s CEO, has revealed the company is shifting from charging &#8220;per user&#8221; to &#8220;per agent&#8221; as artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly perform autonomous work alongside human employees. Speaking on the &#8220;Dwarkesh Podcast&#8221;, Nadella explained that Microsoft&#8217;s business is transitioning from an end-user tools company to an infrastructure provider supporting AI agents that can complete tasks and make decisions independently. Nadella said: \u201cOur business, which today is an end-user tools business, will become essentially an infrastructure business in support of agents doing work. The way to think about the per-user business is not just per user, it&#8217;s per agent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s software business is planning to adjust its pricing model. Satya Nadella, the software giant\u2019s CEO, has revealed the company is shifting from charging &#8220;per user&#8221; to &#8220;per agent&#8221; as artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly perform autonomous work alongside human employees. Speaking on the &#8220;Dwarkesh Podcast&#8221;, Nadella explained that Microsoft&#8217;s business is transitioning from an end-user tools company to an infrastructure provider supporting AI agents that can complete tasks and make decisions independently. Nadella said: \u201cOur business, which today is an end-user tools business, will become essentially an infrastructure business in support of agents doing work. The way to think [&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-974305","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\/974305","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=974305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}