China really does not want an AI model that is developed in China, that if you ask it how to over throw the Chinese government, it will give you step by step instructions to do that. Microsoft doesn't want a model that can do that, because china might ask microsoft to leave.
 
Furthermore AI models that spit out unfavorable things make headlines and hurt shareholder value, once you release the model people will try to get it to say all kinds of inflammatory things, and the creator may be held at fault

Assuming the money is still locked up somewhere (no pun intended) that's a return of $4 million per year

If they lock me out of my computer I'm just going to completely stop using Microsoft products. If I have to use sketchy third party software to use my legal license, fuck Microsoft, I'm done

I haven't had any issues with steam on linux, but I don't play a lot of online games these days, especially fortnite. Dad gaming is all about the roguelikes these days where I can play the entire game end to end in the hour of personal time I have left before bed.

I've never linked my PC to a Microsoft account and don't plan to. It's all operating system not a social media account

My copy I lost the key that came with my disc ~15 years ago so it thinks it's a pirated copy. Thanks microsoft. I only have windows installed to play steam games.
 
Luckily Valve has their own branch of Wine, Proton:
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software)
 
And apparently many/most games support running on Proton these days. I'm sorely tempted to just yeet windows once and for all.
 
I will upgrade my computer when I feel like it, thanks. On my "gaming pc" I visit like, 6 websites (gmail, steam, slashdot and a handful of others) and use Steam, security updates are nice but I'm not at enormous risk, and if anything happens to the PC I'll just wipe it and reinstall anyways. This is my only windows PC at this point, there's nothing to back up.