Microsoft has one of the largest and most powerful collections of web servers on the planet. But even it might balk at the thought of a billion or so Windows users hitting data- and processor-intensive generative AI services 24-7. So perhaps it's not surprising that some new language in its online services user license agreement says that Microsoft will employ "temporary throttling of Customer's access to the Microsoft Generative AI service" for excessive use. Exactly what constitutes excessive use of generative AI (which allows a user to create text and images based on specific input, as seen with ChatGPT and DALL-E) is not specified. But as anyone who's tried out these tools knows, it's not an instant process and complex strings of text generation or intricate formatting might take several minutes for a remote server to complete.