I see you are not familiar with Microsoft.

Granted, they're no strangers to pushing unwanted nonsense on people (remember the ribbon?) but even by their standards this does seem unusually extreme.

Maybe they want to collect data on people using copilot in order to train copilot to be better?

Yes, we called those alphas and betas back in the day.

But I suppose we've been shipping betas as a full release in software for quite a while now. Maybe even soke alphas.