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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, December 26th. I'm Bell Lynn for the Wall Street Journal.

We're hearing from our reporters and columnists about some of the biggest companies, trends, and people in tech, and what could be in store for 2025. Microsoft was one of the early winners of the artificial intelligence race,

but rivals have threatened the tech giant's early lead,

which began with its multi-billion dollar investment in Open AI.

And beyond AI, Microsoft also has hardware, video gaming, and cloud

businesses, and is facing various legal challenges to its dominant market positions. Our tech

reporter Tom Doton covers Microsoft, and he joins us to discuss what's ahead for the company next year.

So Tom, what do you expect will be in store for the tech giant next year?

There's a lot of questions for the next year because a lot of things may come to a head

that were set in play this year

that haven't fully been resolved. And so first of all, just on the outset, the AI business

needs to start proving itself more. And there are a lot of products they have on the marketplace,

specifically co-pilot, which is their AI assistant for things like Word and Excel.

And also they have one that's been attached to its Bing search engine.

All that stuff has had like middling to low middling success.

And investors have been okay with that because it's early and they have seen growth in their cloud

business, Azure that they attach to AI.

But there's going to be a lot more pressure on them to start showing real results and adoption

of their AI co-pilot tools.

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