Prediction: Microsoft Will Double Its Paid Copilot Seats in the Next 12 Months | The Motley Fool

Microsoft (MSFT -1.35%) is selling its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for office work faster than ever. The company said it finished June with more than 30 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats, up from over 20 million three months before. In one quarter, it gained around 10 million paid seats.

And on Sept. 25, Microsoft announced a rebuilt Copilot app with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint inside it.

I think Microsoft will report at least 60 million paid Copilot seats by the end of June 2027, doubling the number in a year. Getting there would take a slower pace of seat additions than the one Microsoft just posted.

Seat additions are speeding up

Highlighting how fast adoption has picked up, Microsoft’s paid Copilot seat count was 15 million as of December. By March it crossed 20 million, and seat additions in the quarter grew 250% year over year, CEO Satya Nadella said in April. And by June, the total passed 30 million. So the company…