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A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)
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It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a new AI tool designed to remember everything you do on Windows. The feature that we never asked and never wanted it.

Microsoft, has done a lot to degrade the Windows user experience over the last few years. Everything from obtrusive advertisements to full-screen popups, ignoring app defaults, forcing a Microsoft Account, and more have eroded the trust relationship between Windows users and Microsoft.

It's no surprise that users are already assuming that Microsoft will eventually end up collecting that data and using it to shape advertisements for you. That really would be a huge invasion of privacy, and people fully expect Microsoft to do it, and it's those bad Windows practices that have led people to this conclusion.

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[–] padge@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The day Windows 10 loses support is the day I primary (or solo) boot Linux on my gaming desktop. The more news I read the more certain I am in this.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I see no broken backs here. People have been composing songs about Bill Gates being a faggot (I'm not homophobic, that was just the climate back then) since he entered the general conscience. Microsoft being both clumsy and criminal has been the butt of too many jokes since Windows 95 at least.

I'm too young to remember anything older than 98SE, but I remember that when XP came out, people were complaining that it's slow ugly shit as compared to 2K, and it felt that if MS doesn't change the general direction, people will remain on older stuff or move to alternatives, Vista was hated so badly that everybody suddenly forgot the hate for XP, 7 was first advertised as something sky cool and impossible, then turned out to be kinda mundane, but usable. Actually with every Windows OS new brand there's an outrage. With every MS big news there's an outrage. They always deliver the opportunity.

TL;DR - Hoping that MS will kill itself is stupid.

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[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you can disable recall in regedit by adding a key and a DWord 32 bit value

[–] BCat70@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah .. regedit should not be considered a solution for the user base. In fact any time the user base knows that regedit exists we in IT have failed.

[–] ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 5 months ago

Woof you must absolutely loathe linux

[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

For those of you that don't know about this OS and are tired of Microsoft's bullshit, you can look into supporting ReactOS as a true Windows alternative which needs it, and you feel you want to give the middle finger to Copilot, Copilot+ PC initiative, and Windows Recall. It can even be made to look like you have went back in time to the Windows XP era with the use of a theme and yet its not Windows, and could run things that you could already run in Windows 10. If even says you can fork it on Github, meaning you could choose to labor for months using it and Linux Technology to build a better OS to replace Windows using it and Linux Technology. And if you already going going FOSS by using Libra Office instead of Microsoft Office, LibraWolf instead of Firefox, and are currently looking to FOSS for your paint program and other things you use, why not look into going FOSS with your OS as well.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Is this article some kind of apple propaganda?

P. S: I fucking hate Windows.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

And yet again, install Linux. Leave Microsoft behind

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Whatevs, sheeple will continue to bleet about how bad things are but not take any steps to enact change.

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