Microsoft already builds countless APIs and services into Windows that are there mostly to enable spying by corporate owners. If you don’t think governments of all sorts are asking for This sort of functionality to be baked into all operating systems, you are being naive, especially on the face of recent reports of Microsoft’s internal willingness to retain a major security hole in ADFS rather than risk a lucrative US government contract.

It’s true they also have folks internally pushing for this as a source of training data for MS AI models as well. There are countless “benefits” for Microsoft that have nothing to do with the personal utility.

The personal utility angle is just the marketing hook, which they thankfully misjudged. How else, though, could they justify recording the screen all the time?