Not really, it was actually Apple that introduced an emoji picker in 2013. The Windows one works since 2017 and KDE has it since 2020.

As the epoch is signed, the first date might refer to December 1901, at least for a 32-bit number.

You can hit F12 to save documents locally in Office applications, it bypasses all the Onedrive trash

It helps partially. As it will block known trackers and tracking cookies.