Feel free to start a business selling computers with pirated copies of Windows and Office pre-installed, or build out a corporate network or cloud service with them, and find out first-hand how much Microsoft really considers their products to be "de-facto freeware".
Not quite. They are trying to build a business around AI and that they spent heaps of money to build and train. The free stuff serves the same purpose it does for all people on the planet, as examples of things that exist.
