{"id":323134,"date":"2025-12-03T17:53:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323134\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:53:20","slug":"microsoft-lowers-ai-software-sales-quota-as-customers-resist-new-products-the-information-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323134\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft lowers AI software sales quota as customers resist new products, The Information reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Dec 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Multiple divisions at Microsoft \u200bhave lowered sales \u200cgrowth targets for certain artificial \u200cintelligence products after many sales staff missed goals in the \u2060fiscal \u200cyear that ended in June, The \u200dInformation reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">It is rare for Microsoft \u200bto lower quotas for \u200cspecific products, the report said, citing two salespeople in the Azure cloud unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Shares of \u2060the company \u200bfell around \u200b2% in premarket trading. Microsoft did not \u200dimmediately \u2060respond to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting \u2060by Jaspreet Singh in \u200cBengaluru; Editing by \u200cArun Koyyur)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Multiple divisions at Microsoft \u200bhave lowered sales \u200cgrowth targets for certain artificial \u200cintelligence products&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,78213,116939,63,143126],"class_list":["post-323134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-growth-targets","tag-jaspreet-singh","tag-microsoft","tag-sales-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}