CFO Amy Hood’s admission is revealing: Azure growth could be higher if GPUs weren’t prioritized for Copilot. Microsoft deliberately trades Azure metrics for higher-margin first-party AI revenue.
Long-Term Implications
This prioritization suggests Microsoft sees Copilot products — not raw Azure compute — as its primary AI monetization path. Third-party enterprise becomes the growth hedge as OpenAI share declines.
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