{"id":124915,"date":"2026-04-30T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/survey-us-workers-are-not-keen-on-microsofts-ai-the-register\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:59:20","slug":"survey-us-workers-are-not-keen-on-microsofts-ai-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/survey-us-workers-are-not-keen-on-microsofts-ai-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: US workers are not keen on Microsoft’s AI \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Coalition for Honest Software program Licensing has printed analysis exhibiting that US employees reckon Microsoft is utilizing its productiveness instruments to lock their employers into the corporate’s AI providers.<\/p>\n

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The survey knowledge of greater than 1,000 employees – out a day earlier than the discharge of Microsoft’s E7 AI bundle – discovered that three-quarters believed Microsoft was utilizing its dominance in productiveness software program to push AI. Greater than half (57 %) opposed their employer shopping for Microsoft’s E7 bundle.<\/p>\n

Solely a 3rd of employees questioned stated they most popular Microsoft as a vendor, whereas 78 % reported they may do their jobs simply as properly with one other vendor’s AI instrument.<\/p>\n

Maybe that different instrument is Google Gemini. Although the survey makes for troublesome studying for Microsoft and Copilot lovers, it additionally opens a brand new entrance within the battle for productiveness hearts and minds. Google has no official affiliation with the survey or the Coalition for Honest Software program Licensing – however Microsoft, for one, has its suspicions.<\/p>\n

In a 2024 blog<\/a> entitled “Google’s shadow campaigns,” Rima Alaily, Microsoft’s normal counsel for Infrastructure Authorized Affairs, wrote, “We perceive Google is a principal funder of the US-based Coalition for Honest Software program Licensing.”<\/p>\n

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