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Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 3 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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If you thought that Microsoft was done with Recall after its catastrophic reveal as the main feature of Copilot+ PCs, you are mistaken.

Microsoft wants to bring it back this October 2024. Good news is that the company plans to introduce it in test builds of the Windows 11 operating system in October. In other words: do not expect the feature to hit stable Windows 11 PCs before 2025 at the earliest.

While Recall may have sounded great on paper and on work-related PCs, users and experts alike expressed concern. Users expressed fears that malware could steal Recall data to know exactly what they did in the past couple of months.

Others did not trust Microsoft to keep the data secure. We suggested to make Recall opt-in, instead of opt-out, to make sure that users knew what they were getting into when enabling it.

Microsoft pulled the Recall feature shortly after its announcement and published information about its future in June. There, Microsoft said that it would make Recall opt-in by default. It also wanted to improve security by enrolling in Windows Hello and other features.

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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not a problem for me, since I plan to stop using Windows in 2025.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Much like Chrome forced me to Firefox, Windows will force me to Linux. It is inevitable.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I recommend at least dual booting before then, so you can get a feel for what the alternative is capable of. You don't want to switch, run into a hiccup, then have to decide whether to push through whatever incompatibility that is, or switch to something terrible. Work through those problems at your own pace in a dual-boot setup, and once you're ready to ditch Windows, everything is already ready.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's what I actually did on my secondary computer (laptop), where I dual booted Windows 10 and openSUSE Tumbleweed, before switching entirely to openSUSE.

I am planning to do the same for my main PC, but instead of doing different partitions for each OS, I will most likely give Linux (probably openSUSE as well, but I might try Fedora Atomic this time) an entire SSD for it's use.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, on my desktop, I have a separate disk for Windows and Linux, and since I haven't booted into Windows in over a year, I'll probably repurpose it as a data drive or something (or maybe upgrade my NAS boot drive).