Microsoft’s AI moment reminds me of Michael Jordan’s first run in baseball ⚾🏀 When Jordan switched sports, he came with elite athletic ability — but coaches said that to be great at baseball, he’d have to start almost from scratch. He needed to unlearn certain basketball instincts and retrain his body for a completely different game. That’s exactly what Microsoft should have done with AI 🤖. Instead of committing to a full rebuild — redefining how it trains models, integrates with users, and aligns products around real human value — it went after the easy plays. It gorged on low-hanging fruit 🍎: adding Copilot buttons everywhere, bundling “AI” marketing into existing tools, and rushing to scale before mastering the fundamentals. Now the cracks are showing. Microsoft’s AI products are underwhelming not because the company lacks resources 💰, but because it treated AI as an add-on, not a new discipline requiring humility and re-foundation. Recent reporting highlights weak demand, missed sales targets, and users who feel these tools are being pushed on them rather than truly serving their workflows. To dominate AI, Microsoft has to think less like a basketball star trying a new sport — and more like a rookie determined to learn from the ground up 💡💪. #ArtificialIntelligence #Microsoft #AIFail #AIGrowth #Leadership #Innovation #TechStrategy #DigitalTransformation #AITransformation #ProductDesign #AIMaturity