According to Newcomer, Copilot’s user growth is a flat line. Microsoft chief financial officer Amy Hood showed the grim chart at a recent executive knees up, confirming that hardly anyone is biting.

It is grim reading when you realise Copilot's weekly herd is just five per cent of ChatGPT’s. Even worse, with 1.5 billion Windows users out there, it means barely more than a per cent are bothering with a tool that now comes baked into Windows. For a company that has burned a mountain of cash trying to shove AI down people’s throats, that is a horror show.

Microsoft boss Satya Nadella promised Copilot would be "the next Start button" but the company has already had to climb down, letting punters reassign the shiny new Copilot key back to the good old Menu key.

Another issue is that users are finding ChatGPT better than Copilot and are only using Vole's version when it throws one of its many tantrums. 

Vole is not the only one suffering, last week troubled Chipzilla admitted its AI hardware is not exactly flying off the shelves either.