Let's be real. Microsoft hasn't given a fuck about consumers in decades. They were useful as long as they were buying cheap ass laptops en masse so the big M could strangle manufacturers with anticompetitive mass licence deals.

Consumers don't buy software, consumers don't buy licences. Companies do. Companies buy Office licences and pro windows licences that get more expensive for each enshittified "feature" removed from the consumer version, and more importantly Azure compute and storage. Cloud computing has been the sole driver of growth for the last 5-10 years, and everybody there are just hoping their massive gamble on AI will magically pay off.

Consumers don't give a fuck about AI. Our corporate overlords pray every night that it will succeed so they can churn slop with a skeleton crew of developers, just as the almighty cloud allowed them to layoff an entire ops department. All in the name of our Lord and Savior Profits for the Blessed Shareholders