Microsoft is gradually rolling out the AI-powered Windows Recall feature to Insiders in the Release Preview channel before making it generally available to all Windows users with Copilot+ PCs.
Recall is an opt-in Windows feature that screenshots active windows every few seconds, analyzes them, and allows Windows 11 users to search text within the snapshots using natural language.
As the Windows Insider Program Team said on Thursday, Recall can be paused whenever needed and will only allow access to the data it captures after authenticating via Windows Hello.
I’m kind of tempted to keep using Windows just to remove these features as a big middle finger to MS.
Shrinking their market share is a much bigger middle finger. If you use their product and shut off a bunch of features, you’re still using the rest of their product and its other features.
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Exciting to see Microsoft moving into the final testing phase for Windows Recall! It’s always interesting (and a bit nerve-wracking) when new system-level features roll out. Hoping this improves productivity without compromising privacy. As someone who uses apps like Quicken regularly, I’m curious how this will affect compatibility and background performance fingers crossed for a smooth transition!
You written this like chatgpt trying to praise recall
Nice try Microsoft
I thought the people called Microsoft on their bullshit, Microsoft then listened and decided to stop pursuing AI proliferation? No?
No, no ,no. You roll out a wildly overreaching implementation so everyone one is upset, that way you can release a just mostly overreaching version and everyone thinks it’s better than what you tried last time.
Alternative title:
Windows users start final Linux testing before rollout
No worries, I also started test driving Linux a month ago in preparation for when Windows 10 stops being officially supported.
Imagine paying for a surveillance machine that takes pictures and records everything you do ready to regurgitate it to anyone who asks. The fact that anyone sees this as anything other than dystopian is a bridge to far for me.
Micromanaging bosses dream.
PIP justification dream.
LLM training data.
Employee scoring system.
Android has been doing shit like this for years. It’s a marketing tool more than anything. But there’s a weird tribalism around Android so everyone just forgives it. But when windows does it people suddenly care about privacy.
I’m tired.
Its not like there isn’t a backlash against Android either. There’s a reason why projects like GrapheneOS exist.
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As much as everyone seems to hate Recall, I really appreciate it. It was the final push I needed to go to Linux full time. Have been on Linux for 6 months now and can’t imagine going back to windows.
It was one of the reasons I switched. That and my favorite mod manager is working on a Linux native version. It’s not done yet, but it’s good to play other games from time to time.
Valheim is pretty brutal, but also highly moddable.
Had me in the first half xD
The more users on Linux, the more commercial software will target it. Can already get Davinci Resolve and Autodesk Maya. Drive traffic to see more
Doesn’t have Linux Recall yet?
Not yet, not enough traffic has been driven. Hang in there.
Windows is getting worse by the minute, I think the transition to an alternative OS like Linux is inevitable.
Windows has had that for a decade.
Yeah I had to google ‘system restore point but for Linux’ haha
‘opt in’
Yeeeaa i don’t believe that for one damned minute.
Oh yes. Next update it will be opt-out. Then they will change the opt-out mechanism while all data will be sent to MS servers.
Of course it is opt in. Why would it not be? Microsoft have opted in automatically on your behalf. Soon you will only be able to opt in, for your convenience, as too many people were accidentally opting out. /s
It’s opt-in in the same way the Co-pilot that one day just appeared installed on your computer was opt-in. /s
I opt-out.
From Windows
Good thing I don’t use Windows Hello on my machine.
Is now, always has been, and always will be a bad idea, a security nightmare, and of benefit only to M$ and its so-called “AI” offerings…
Should be permanently disabled on all systems, particularly on corporate systems.
🙄 🤡
Not on my shit they’re not.
