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AI migration of legacy systems is the near-term value driver

The most immediately valuable AI use is migration—converting mainframe systems to cloud, Excel databases into real SQL databases, and Word/Excel artifacts into more programmatic, efficient forms—which could shrink the Office ecosystem's relative use, though even mainframes have continued growing for two decades despite such migrations.

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Speaker

Dylan Patel

Evidence Quote

Now mainframes have grown for the last two decades actually, even though no one talks about them anymore. They've still grown.

Source

Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGIDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:35:54 AM

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