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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I use Arch Linux... btw

Seriously, the alternatives are there... It's time to take the leap and never look back.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this is gonna get people to either switch to macos or linux

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The whole idea of windows 11 made me switch to Linux, already unhappy with windows 10 but that was bearable for me.

Sucks that I work in windows though.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I can see the use case, and that some people might find this useful (not to mention many agencies and ad companies). But enough was enough, for me at least. Linux Mint rocks. Can't see myself going back to Windows.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

To the title of this article /post, all I can say is Duh.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It is funny how they think this product useful to so many people. I believe they only do it because they have to use AI in any way but could not come up with something better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The writing is on the wall, they are not giving up on that potential cash cow. I won't use it, hell I don't use windows, but there are normal computer users that will have it thrust upon on them and won't know how to really turn it off.

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