Things keep lining up against Microsoft , with all roads leading back to the company's tarnished standing as an artificial intelligence leader and how that could impact the company's Azure cloud growth. It's been known for some time that Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant has been disappointing. At a time when Alphabet 's Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Anthropic's Claude are being celebrated, Microsoft has been roundly criticized. Last week, the cloud and software giant waved the flag, announcing that it is un ...