I had the same reaction to the article. I'm not so quick to laugh at the poor bastards though. Even if we are unshackled ourselves, we still have to live in a society that largely is--and there are costs to that.
At least there'll be no confusion about Microsoft suddenly changing the default option to "enable" at a later date and suddenly all your Notepad/paint data is getting processed by an Azure box somewhere.
Unless Microsoft decides to make those features free and enable them for all to increase adoption...
But no, it was just goddamn access to AI. In notepad. Oh, that's a thing, and one I should pay for?
/me goes back to using Linux chuckling at the poor bastards that use windoze only every day