Microsoft is gradually rolling out the AI-powered Windows Recall feature to Insiders in the Release Preview channel before making it generally available to all Windows users with Copilot+ PCs.
Recall is an opt-in Windows feature that screenshots active windows every few seconds, analyzes them, and allows Windows 11 users to search text within the snapshots using natural language.
As the Windows Insider Program Team said on Thursday, Recall can be paused whenever needed and will only allow access to the data it captures after authenticating via Windows Hello.
I thought the people called Microsoft on their bullshit, Microsoft then listened and decided to stop pursuing AI proliferation? No?
No, no ,no. You roll out a wildly overreaching implementation so everyone one is upset, that way you can release a just mostly overreaching version and everyone thinks it’s better than what you tried last time.
It’s not even just about shoving AI into everything. That would be bad enough but this feature is literally useless, and it isn’t as if Microsoft doesn’t have a plethora of other features people want them to work on.
How about inventing Windows airdrop? Or spend some time unifying the UI so it doesn’t all look like it was developed by two separate teams working independently. Nah, let’s just build some spy software.
Hell I’d even accept them spending some time making a non-shit version of Teams