Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11

Microsoft’s aggressive, multi-billion-dollar push into artificial intelligence was supposed to be a flawless victory. The integration of Copilot into Windows 11, Microsoft 365, and GitHub was designed to usher in a new era of agentic computing. Yet, beneath the polished keynote presentations and massive infrastructure investments, a dramatically different reality is what we saw.

As first reported by Windows Latest, according to a highly respected former Microsoft executive, the company’s AI strategy is fundamentally failing to connect with real users, spurring calls for a massive internal “factory reset.”

The executive in question is Mat Velloso, who was most recently the Vice President of Product for the Developer Platform at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs. He also led AI developer products at Google DeepMind (including the Gemini API and Google AI Studio). But before his stints at Google and…