Microsoft Launches Windows Recall After Year-Long Delay (arstechnica.com) 33
Microsoft has finally released Windows Recall to the general public, nearly a year after first announcing the controversial feature. Available exclusively on Copilot+ PCs, Recall continuously captures screenshots of user activity, storing them in a searchable database with extracted text. The feature's original launch was derailed by significant security concerns, as critics noted anyone with access to a Recall database could potentially view nearly everything done on the device.
Microsoft's revamped version addresses these issues with improved security protections, better content filtering for sensitive information, and crucially, making Recall opt-in rather than opt-out. The rollout includes two additional Copilot+ features: an improved Search function with natural language understanding, and "Click to Do," which enables text copying from images and quick summarization of on-screen content.
Microsoft's revamped version addresses these issues with improved security protections, better content filtering for sensitive information, and crucially, making Recall opt-in rather than opt-out. The rollout includes two additional Copilot+ features: an improved Search function with natural language understanding, and "Click to Do," which enables text copying from images and quick summarization of on-screen content.
this story won't die (Score:1)
you won't switch, so spread your legs suckers.
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It was obvious by the time that Microsoft was pushing Telemetry into Windows 7 and 8 that it was absolutely time to go. From Win2k until then it was both still usable (For 8 that is a bit of a stretch, but it could be made to be so with enough third party software) and also reasonable to use if you were already running a bunch of Windows-only software.
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The license change of Windows2000 made it time for me to switch. Linux didn't even have a decent word processor, but I switched anyway. But most people didn't even notice.
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WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux was released on March 10, 2000. It was decent. I used it all of once so I didn't get deeply into it, but it seemed fine.
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Perhaps I read the MSWindows license in 1999. WordPerfect 2000 wasn't out yet.
I would like to thank Microsoft (Score:4, Insightful)
Really surprised they made this opt-in. The real goal here is to get access to every single computer on the planet for the purposes of training their AIs.
The big problem right now with llms is that they are mostly trained on the internet and the internet is currently being flooded by AI slop. And that means that AIs are going to be trained on their own slop potentially leading to a degradation.
If you could basically spy on every computer on the planet and train your AIs from them then you would have a massive massive massive competitive edge over every other company.
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For making this exclusive to co-pilot plus PCs.
I'm planning on building a new desktop this Sumer. I'll be using the last NON-Ultra core generation. A plain Core I7 not a Core Ultra 7. LGA 1700, gen 14?
Re:I would like to thank Microsoft (Score:4, Funny)
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Yet. Oh, except for that OneDrive integration they crammed down peoples' throats.
Re: I would like to thank Microsoft (Score:2)
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I don't see why MS needs this to train their AIs.
Anyone not paying attention (i.e. most people) already have all their personal files stored on OneDrive. And most of the rest do it consciously and don't have a problem with it.
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I would suggest that the concept that all data is good data is naive. It's a kind of DEI type of idea, that all ideas ar
I mean you're literally monitoring users (Score:2)
I swear sometimes people post here just to be contrarian. If I said the sky was blue you'd say it was Green.
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slop is slop.
My ultimate point is that humanity, words, language, is super vague.
My definition of "good" isn't the same as your definition of "good".
We can't even begin to argue until we have a context.
It's basically all interpretation.
We can pin it
What a terrible name ... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:What a terrible name ... (Score:4, Funny)
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They should have called it Windows Total Recall.
I don't know. I'd start wondering if I am going to have to buy air from Microsoft. :-)
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Cohaagen sent Richter to stop them. Hauser was incommunicado and his "wife" Lori Quade was doing the sommersault splits.
Sometimes you just have to never go to Total Recall.
Re:What a terrible name ... (Score:4, Interesting)
M$ is only beaten by Chinese copyright/trademark violators when choosing names for products that lead to confusion.
Examples: .net domains, as if someone in marketing at M$ at the time didn't know what the Internet was.
1. DOT NET has nothing to do with
2. typescript is the name of a pretty much defunct screen logging program from many years ago.
3. C# was a little-known compiler in the 1990s. No one seems to remember it.
4. SQL Server as pronounced 'sequel server' is the name of a company that made servers around 1990 that had nothing to do with M$.
and now
5. M$ Windows Recall is not a product recall (as most of the world would like), but a screen capture log that is essentially a video of everything you've ever done on that machine. Can be used to put people in jail. Can be used to steal as well. It is BFF with keyloggers.
FFS (Score:3)
just like microsoft to give the product a name that makes everybody think it's defective
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Microsoft will only learn, if one or more of their bosses see their fortunes vanish into thin air, because of a (unintentional) spill of information in Recall.
Recall is the function that will make me switch all my personal systems to Linux. Already had very positive experiences for a full year of WfH, at work I mostly deal with Linux and Windows Server 20xx, so I don't expect much of Recall there anyway.
But as stated my personal systems at home are 2 laptops and a desktop. The desktop already runs Linux, on
Fascism, anyone? (Score:4, Insightful)
Windows Recall is the feature every fascist authoritarian wanted, but was too embarrassed to ask for.
From crushing political dissent at the source to providing evidence of *ahem* "crimes", Windows Recall will soon be the go to application for law enforcement and intelligence agencies throughout the world. From arresting judges [apnews.com] to deporting students with dissenting opinions [apnews.com], there's no limit to the privacy it can invade.
This is by far the most impactful feature Microsoft has released yet, and the assistance it will provide authorities in removing the undesirable elements from societies throughout the world will be felt for decades to come.
Re: Fascism, anyone? (Score:3)
News from tomorrow: (Score:3)
Spyware found to use Microsoft Windows' Recall feature to steal credentials and bypass antivirus checks
Everyone please remember to act surprised when it happens.
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NEIGHBOR you HATE shoots himself in the foot. Yay! (Score:1)
My 2015 Dell XPS-13 is an awesome traveling companion. It weighs less than 3lbs, runs perfectly, has no "co-pilot" key on it, nor "Windows." It has gone with me all over the world, including Australia, Europe, Canada, Belize, etc.
It doesn't record my screen, my keystrokes, or the sites I visit (other than the normal Chrome browser cache), and it doesn't exfiltrate anything to anybody other than when, you know, I hit "SEND" or "SUBMIT" or "BOW DOWN AND KISS THE RING."
Good thing Microsoft named their "nobod
So some executive is stalking his ex wife? (Score:2)
That's got to be it.
Leaving Windows Because of Recall Theftware (Score:2)