Today in easily gamed metrics

Microsoft’s AI assistant, Copilot, is a smashing success. The proof:

During the company's fourth quarter earnings call on Wednesday, Nadella said, "…we now have over 30 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats with net seat adds more than doubling quarter-over-quarter."

Wow! That’s a lot of paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats. As I’ve said before, numbers don’t lie. Customers are clearly using, and loving, this product.

That, or Microsoft grafted Copilot onto existing Microsoft 365 licenses and called it a win. But that couldn’t be.