Widespread starvation.

As long as the “working masses” can still feed their children, the vast majority of us bow to whatever authority wants to rule them.

It’s the same here in Germany.

How tf this even gets patented?

It hasn’t, yet, afaict. Applying for a patent != it being granted.

As to the latent question of why Microsoft seems confident enough to try:

Because the times of a patent requiring to clear a reasonable inventive threshold (to actually be a motor for innovation) are far behind us. These days, patents’ principal (not exclusive) purpose imho is so big corporations can sue each other to grab some of the others’ earnings.