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

submitted 3 weeks 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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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (38 children)

people not knowing shit about tech is not their fault. I've been using tech for 30+ years, and I'm usually the most tech savvy person in my circle of family and friends, except for a friend in IT.

the reason I'm not getting into Linux is no longer gaming, it's that whenever i see some fuckers talking about Linux it's completely indecipherable with proper names, commands, and jargon. it's straight up technobabble, and when it's not insufferable elitism it's certainly disinviting.

you think people are going to listen to a bunch of nerds talking about distros and shit, using 40 different acronyms within two sentences, and think "ah this is my new home" ... like do you fucking hear yourselves at all‽ you sound exactly like a character from the hackers, and not in a good way.

if anything is preventing people from switching it's Linux users, and probably developers as well. if you make it look like people have to have a degree to get into your shit, they're not gonna do it.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's not like people need the Linux community to install Linux, they didn't need a "windows community" to use windows.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

that's because windows is beginner friendly. too much for my taste, but that's how you get people to come aboard. by making it easy for a dumbass to use. simple terms, familiar words, relatable metaphors, graphic interface, installers that do the work for you...

you don't need a windows community to figure things out on windows. i was like 6 when I started using windows 3.x and i did fine because it was either intuitive or it taught me how to do things.

with Linux you do need to refer to communities to even know where to start, and even then the community is fucking indecipherable. nerds don't know how to speak human.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you started using Linux with 6, or mac for that matter you'll probably find that more intuitive than windows.

Sorry but the graphic interface of windows is jack shit, you have different types of system configuration and legacy menus all over the place, for anything more serious editing the Registry is not what I call intuitive.

I've a friend that had constantly BSOD while playing certain games and he only found the solution in a russian forum suggesting to rename a .dll file in system, that was in 2015-2016. That's not intuitive. The biggest difference is the amount of time that people need to do that in windows vs in linux, in any case people without more knowledge in PCs are completely lost and need assistance.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

sounds like you're having trouble understanding the difference between troubleshooting for specific cases vs entry to the OS.

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