To the title of this article /post, all I can say is Duh.
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2024
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The writing is on the wall, they are not giving up on that potential cash cow. I won't use it, hell I don't use windows, but there are normal computer users that will have it thrust upon on them and won't know how to really turn it off.
"has enough time passed that we won't get bad press for this?"
This tool stinks of management requesting a better way to spy the employees. It has little to no benefits for the user.
I'm not sure any company wants to have recordings of their employees screens feed to Microsoft servers. It could never happen at my company because of the amount of private information we deal with. Privacy laws, NDAs, you name it. There's no way we could enable this without a shit storm of risk.
Lots of comments in here saying this sends stuff to Microsoft and yet that isn't true. It's an offline local feature.
I personally look forward to giving it a try.
Perhaps for a few quarters or years until you're locked in. Infinite growth demanded by investors make the eventual harvest as sure to come as taxes and death
Did they make hard commitments to 100% keep the data local and never use it to spy on you? What does their privacy policy say? Come on dude, we're talking about microsoft. You're more likely to receive millions from a nigerian prince than to get some privacy from them.
A Google search later: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-control-over-your-recall-experience-d404f672-7647-41e5-886c-a3c59680af15
All local. Nothing sent. You can choose to not believe it, but it's deceptive to imply they don't say it's local.
If you don't believe them it's one thing but they said what they said.
Well you don't know that, they're telling you that. First issue.
The second is that it can and will change in time.
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While Recall may have sounded great on paper and on work-related PCs,
Ah yes, all those IT people were probably thrilled with the prospect of Microsoft getting sent constant screenshots of their employees' machines, with all those company secrets, sensitive information, and everything
The crazy part to me is a local solution (shadow copy) has been around for ever. Why this is even a thing at all is just insane to me.
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Not a problem for me, since I plan to stop using Windows in 2025.
Much like Chrome forced me to Firefox, Windows will force me to Linux. It is inevitable.
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<Insert how you'll use Linux> <rest of the population uses Windows because they don't know shit about tech and how shitty this is> <realize work loves Microsoft and you can't change that>
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