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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)

submitted 5 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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

Glad I switched from PC to Mac back in 2022 because I was pissed Microsoft was forcing me to upgrade hardware to switch to Windows 11 which I didn’t want. Apple to me is more private and will be more thoughtful with their AI tools to expand user functionality. Screw Microsoft. This is a user that had used PCs since the late 1980s…

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Straw that broke the camel's back? Every vertebra in that camel's back has been smashed with a sledge hammer over the past 30 years.

Windows 95 was the last version I was excited about; Windows 98 SE was the last version of Windows I willingly purchased, and XP was the last one I willingly used. When they announced Win7, I downloaded Ubuntu 6.06, "Dapper Drake". Since then, Windows has only existed on my computers as pirated, virtual machines.

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

I think Windows 7 was good, and their last decent desktop OS before they started backporting Windows 10 garbage into it late in the lifecycle.

I'm in the same boat as you now. Earlier this year I'd had enough and there was no way I was going from my de-shittified Win10 Enterprise install to Win11. I'm on Tumbleweed for my main PC now.

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[–] Wolfwood1@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You lasted until Windows 7? I'm guessing you didn't have to deal with Windows Vista's bs then. I changed ship thanks to Vista.

I also suffered Windows Me, but I was too young and at that time I didn't know there was an alternative.

I dual booted Vista/7 and Ubuntu/Mint for a while but after not using Windows in years ended removing it completely. Now I'm a happy ~~Antergos~~ Arch user ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I hated Windows from the day I saw the 3.1 floppies had no write tab (that tiny piece that allowed you to write the disk). My first though was "we've payed for this and they forbid us to write on them? Fuck MS". It was the last original Windows in any PC at home. And I used DRDOS, so even worse (Windows 3.11 had a "bug" that made it crash if it ran on DRDOS).

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 0 points 5 months ago

Tape over the hole.

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

When they announced Win7, I downloaded Ubuntu 6.06, “Dapper Drake”.

Windows Vista was so bad that it gets forgotten even in a retrospective about how Windows versions sucked. But yeah, Win7 didn't come out for another few years after that, to rescue the world from Vista.

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

https://youtu.be/I5qAshY2jkw?t=27

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know that I shouldn't, but here's what I think about this whole deal, illustrated with a single image macro:

Get wrecked, Microsoft.

I think that the article does a good job highlighting how much of a trainwreck this is, because Microsoft is not to be trusted. The Windows users hysterically complaining about this are not expecting Microsoft to behave in some outrageous way; they're expecting Microsoft to behave as usual.

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[–] padge@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago (6 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.

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[–] 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 (2 children)

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

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