Whats going on with 9.8.1?

9.8.1 new addition ‘Personal Learning Center’ offer of 30days free trial and 357 Mb download of demo files with the install of this update. Any one know what’s on again, I take it the paid for support was a failure so a new money making effort? It looks like you will be paying for demos and user guides. Its not a good start as I went through the set up for the learning center. It sent off my replys then did nothing