[protoster]

Nothing. MS decision makers are fulfilling their duty to maximize profit by utilizing Windows to funnel users towards their most profitable, revenue generating, services of Azure and Office Copilot 365.

[pizlonator]

How do these changes help to funnel users towards Azure and Office Copilot 365?

Folks could have used those services even if Windows itself wasn't getting clanked, right?

[protoster]

It's simple advertising. People have a higher chance to use a product if it is advertised to them. I don't think there is a microsoft app these days that doesn't have a copilot logo visible in it at all times (even Paint).

[hvb2]

That's like asking how installing a default browser helps boost that browsers market share.

Does that answer your question

[pharrington]

Despite what non lawyers may have told you, corporations are not legally obliged to chase short term profit at the expense of everything else!