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It feels like product managers trying to keep their projects from being canceled. Something similar happened in the Copland era at Apple where everyone tried to tie their project to Copland to keep themselves employed.
This is such an insightful answer. I totally forgot about MS' famously toxic internal culture. Some bureaucratic piece of middle managed budgeting goes out informing the PMs that products not involving AI get 70% of their previous budgets and suddenly notepad has AI-assisted writing prompts and Minesweeper is asking if you'd like to play Global Thermonuclear War. It all makes sense now!