I read a lot of false, or bad faith, or maybe uniformed opinions.
Recall ca also run on PCs with GPU, the model is not specific to ARM, and there have been quite a few signs in the telemetry viewer about AI features on x64 PCs. Also, their finger are not involved.. They have the onnx format which is designed to run everywhere... It seems indeed they are pushing for the ARM platform...
Look at all the years since Nadella is CIO... Microsoft has plenty of new products that sells well, because they are good... putting profit over user experience... once again, it is a big company, but is also note 1999 Microsoft by far... they are very involved in open source, with no agenda, those communities are nice... also many C-levels are now mostly good, or even famous engineers, this is also interesting as this is clearly a choice... not perfect either, but from all the GAFAM, especially the fruit one whish is acting every day more dishonest and more obsessed by money than ever... They have like 10 highly overpriced products, most of them have better alternatives... they are not likable at all. Are really conservative (they are supposed to innovate but when do they do that ??) Hopefully, many people also realized that anything they say must be interpreted as most of it is exaggerated, etc...
By far, also, telemetry is not spying... why do people believe in such poorly informed/paranoid statements... you can deactivate it, or look at what's going on, this is interesting, but they aren't spying anyone, this isn't what telemetry is, at all. Then, telemetry is is in ios, macos, there are many places where they mention it. It's everywhere else, Ubuntu, apps, it's a neat way to acquire information ovver perf etc. and optimize complex systems (or as I have the Canary build, they sometimes do experiments, like testing some AI component perfs etc. nothing of this is hidden or not clearly explained on MS website, in Windows... Copilot does not spy either... And it seems indeed, and that's strange, given the amount of cybersecurity tools they have created... (they are Garner Leader in cybersecurity and various data related topics...) that the encryption has such issues it's a bit disappointing but once again, files are local, this is not spying... The feature makes sense, I believe one way AI can help with PCs first then in general is at being your "always on assistant" and help for some tasks. Not spying... so it's a start...
In some typical Intel twist they have finally a SOC that has up to 16 hours of battery life and powerful... So this is interesting. When desktops SOCs and a nvidia GPU they will indeed crush many things.. the Xeon are already equipped with AI accelerators, there are amazing servers those days...