WTF! Just keep it!
You know that friend who wants to sell you his laptop but keeps showing you know it works instead of letting you try it? That Microsoft. So I say fuck them, just keep the fucking thing if they love it so much that they can't let me use it the way I want to use it -> Linux.
Just don't say you used to support the guy and do your part to try to get him legally out of the whitehouse along with his admin buddies.