The publicity will have little impact; only the AI bubble popping will make them change course. But the damage is already done - they've pivoted their company to AI, forced it into all there products and force their employees to use it. Once the bubble pops that's going to take time to undo and fix.

AI of course will still be a thing, but at the moment they're wasting billions on it as everyone wants to be to AI as Google is to search.

Alright fine, I can tolerate the little ✨AI ✨ sparkles in my M365 webpages a while longer if it means more kaboom at the end.

Yeah but what does the corporate world do when Microsoft implodes and releases "Windows 12 agentic AI" the operating system, co developed between AI and athletic employees?

IDK, the amount of abuse people have withstood only to keep using MS platforms is astounding. Some people would rather use trash than learn a new platform.