Microsoft once again delays launching Recall

[thewayne]

Recall, if you recall, is their replay "assistant" that no one seems to particularly be asking for. It takes screen shots of your computer and stores them so that you can look back if you lose information. During the first tests of it we learned that the storage of said snapshots were not secure, so someone who'd infiltrated your computer could conceivably see banking credentials, medical records, etc.

From the article: "Originally planned for October, Recall will now be available for preview with Windows Insiders on Copilot Plus PCs by December."

and

"Earlier this week, Microsoft again clarified that Recall will not be mandatory on Copilot Plus PCs, and will be an opt-in experience that can be fully removed."

It'll be interesting to see the blowback when this thing finally deploys, especially if it isn't fully opt-in.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/31/24284572/microsoft-recall-delay-december-windows-insider-testing

Comments

[silveradept]

I choose not to believe that this thing that Microsoft has spent all those resources on will actually be fully removable and opt-in. I believe they will try to sell it to us as that, but we'll find out that if you happen to uninstall Copilot, Windows suddenly takes an addition hour to boot as it is deliberately looking for a DLL that isn't there and that has an hour-long timeout on it before they decide to go forward without it. Maybe the EU version will be, because they don't want the fines, but the rest of us will have to suffer with a Recall that's "opt-in" and always trying to opt you in, or forcing you to opt-in so that you can get to this other feature that you actually want or need.

[thewayne]

Find a way to buy an EU version and set your VPN to Germany....

[silveradept]

Certainly does seen like a good idea, doesn't it? I'm sure there will be some other reason to forbid US audiences from getting versions that actually work properly.

[thewayne]

Hard to say.  They allegedly try to be good, but you invariably find stuff that is decidedly not.