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On Microsoft's earnings call last month, CEO Satya Nadella boasted about the company's artificial intelligence products, and said over 150 million people are using its Copilot assistant for productivity, cybersecurity, coding and other endeavors.

But conversations with IT buyers at Microsoft's Ignite conference in San Francisco this week highlighted some of the hurdles the company must overcome as it tries to sell its AI chatbot in the enterprise market.

"I know a lot of customers who are like, 'Yeah, I want 300 to go to zero,'" said Adam Mansfield of consulting firm UpperEdge, referring to Copilot licenses. Mansfield, who helps companies negotiate Microsoft deals, said those clients are saying, "I don'

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