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

submitted 2 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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[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But people whose life or personality doesn’t revolve around their computer should also be protected from user hostile and privacy invading practices.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk -3 points 2 months ago

They won't care or won't even notice these things. They'll open their laptop, book a holday or find some new car insurance or write a report of whatever and not even think about what the OS does. Unless they're someone who is already extremely sensitive over privacy of their data, you're not going to convice the average Windows user to switch to Linux.

When I was younger I used to use Ubuntu as my main OS for years, tried Arch for a bit - then went back to Windows. I haven't got the time or energy to be fucking about with things like that anymore.