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.
I mean 95% of their customers probably don’t care or even know what Recall is but…
95% of their customers are businesses, who no, they don’t understand that. But their IT department does.
Their IT department also knows the MS isn’t going anywhere…
And that IT department also knows how to disable it with a single Group Policy
It really is a none issue
There will be corporate editions that Let you turn it off. There is no way that get activated in defence related businesses.
Yeah, you can be damn sure I’m going to disable this at some grand level for my ORG if it makes it to us.
Yeah this. Fed up with sensationalist headlines that are far from reality. Us Lemmy users have a better understanding of what’s going on but we shouldn’t be falling for this journalism as it’s nonsense.
I’m learning about it as a result of this thread. I’m still on 10, but I know what to look for when I inevitably am forced to switch to 11.
A number of things I use still aren’t supported on Linux