News Microsoft again delays Recall feature, says it will arrive for Windows Insiders on Copilot Plus PCs in December

[Admin]

Microsoft says Recall will be available for Windows Insiders in December.

Microsoft again delays Recall feature, says it will arrive for Windows Insiders on Copilot Plus PCs in December : Read more

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

All this time and money on a feature maybe 1% of users will use instead of spending the same time and money on features 99% people strongly desire. Microsoft in 2024...

 

[snemarch]

Dear Microsoft, please stop delaying this "feature".

Instead, scrap it, and gut all the people who signed off on it in the first place, including the layers including and above Vice Presidents.

 

[EzzyB]

Given the data that this thing collects, it will be the most hammered target of security researches in history.

 

[JRStern]

All this time and money on a feature maybe 1% of users will use instead of spending the same time and money on features 99% people strongly desire. Microsoft in 2024...

I can see that it would be useful now and then but it has to be the least efficient thing I ever heard of.

And didn't someone say that it makes great training data for an AI? There's some high concept right there, but I'll bet that was the argument that got it approved.

 

[umeng2002_2]

I hope it's delayed until the second coming of Christ.

 

[Giroro]

A bad idea is a bad idea.
Even if Microsoft wasted another $10 Billion of their investors' money on Recall, it would still repel more users than it gains.

No corporation or government on Earth would ever touch this. This data land-grab will cited as justification to avoid all other Microsoft products, like office and Azure.
Where does Microsoft think their money comes from? How much could a copy of jhonny 6-pack's vacation photos really be worth compared to the risk of losing even a single fortune 500 company as a customer?

 

[rluker5]

I generally use Edge, but I don't like how it shares some things across my PCs at home, so when I want to check out things that I don't want to share I just use a different browser and I don't have to worry. At least until this Recall feature decides it wants to recall what I've been doing behind closed doors - on another PC in the living room when company is over. I would prefer to avoid such embarrassing situations if at all possible.

I will be looking for ways to disable or avoid Recall when it gets introduced. I also imagine it will be an intermittent drain on resources so others will also be motivated to do the same.