For Microsoft, 2025 could be a game-changing year – Computerworld

The big question is: Will Nadella continue to keep Trump at bay and try to make the company culture more what Trump would like it to be? I assume he will stay the course. But we’ll see.

We may get real numbers on AI revenue… or not.

Finally, comes perhaps the biggest challenge to the company’s financial health: can Microsoft attract enough customers to justify its ambitions in genetic artificial intelligence? We are no longer living in the early days of the hype, when mere opportunity was more important than income. In 2025, the ROI rubber will hit the road to reality.

This is especially important because the investment that needs to be made in genius AI is much larger in scale than in any technology that came before it. Microsoft can spend all the billions it wants on infrastructure, power, data centers, training and development. But if businesses and people don’t find AI useful and open their wallets to it, it won’t mean anything.