This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
dumb fucking corporations will still line their pockets with money.
It's the 1, 2, 3, 4 punch of
"Haha windows 10 EOL is soon and no your computer cannot upgrade π"
Followed by the
"We're thinking about.. no? Okay well anyways, we're gonna shove ads into the UX, even after backpedaling after backlash"
Then the
"Listen the security situation is p bad and we're not too sure what to do about it. Lots of internal accts have been compromised. Probably yours too, we don't really know. Shhh, we got big AI news soon."
And lastly the
"Unveiling, the biggest security nightmare tool in the history of connected devices. From the writers of Total Recall and the masterminds behind Ads in your OS comes: Recall!"
I don't care what windows does to rectify this. My parents next machines are either Linux or Chromebooks.
If windows 12 isn't FOSS, Microsoft can pound sand.
I don't think this will bury MS because they can easily market this to enterprise clients ( if they haven't already ). Recall is a particularly useful tool for any employer that wants to keep track of everything employees do, especially in an age of WFH. They probably figured they can take the PR hit from users concerned about privacy and move on unaffected.
Any enterprise working with sensitive data certainly has to disable the feature. And turns out, that's most enterprises.
I have heard very little, if any, enthusiasm about this. Nobody seems to be excited about it at all.
The struggle is real for M$ - recall is a Security Incident waiting to happen.
Microsoft has already taken a step back: Microsoft implements drastic changes to Recall after criticism
And no one is going to trust them on this. Theyβve burned that bridge.
I really hope the damage is done. They need to be knocked down a peg. This all should have been done first. Whoever thought this was a good idea is horrible.
Microsoft lost my trust a long time ago. For the last 10-15 years, my only relationship with them is, "how much sh*t am I willing to put up with before I switch to something else?"
And CoPilot/Recall was the breaking point.
Linux!: Had set It up years ago when it was a slog. Came back recently after Windows did thisβ and it was so much easier.
Work? Yes. The comfort of knowing Iβve put off for one more day the tech ubergods carving my life open? Also yes.
