Microsoft Recall is NOT Mandatory?!?

A fix for the Recall Feature is now here, but what does the future look like .

[hudefuk]

There was a time, long ago, when mankind looked eagerly forward to new groundbreaking Windows features, free of dread and consternation.

[skorne]

When not having an NPU in your PC becomes a selling point.

[quentinator]

Malicious or incompetent? Why not both.

[marcs]

"Removing Recall gives you the old Windows File Explorer" that's a win win situation 😂

[JohnCastleSmokeless]

Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

But, here's the corollary; Reynolds' Razor: "Never excuse as innocent stupidity that which can only be explained by malice."

This can _only_ be explained by malicious design.

[sbwinn]

I'm tired of fighting Microsoft. I don't want ads, I don't want telemetry sent to Microsoft, I don't want copilot, I don't want the start menu to move around each release, I don't want obscure icons in the context menus, I don't want the ribbon bar, I don't want apps and options behind additional clicks, the list just goes on and on. I don't want Windows for free, I want to pay for it and buy a product, not to be a product. The best way I've found to fix all of this is to find a Linux distribution you like and install it. All those problems are fixed. Now you have new ones, but they aren't some corporation doing their best to catch 'every breath you take'.

[NoEggu]

Perhaps Microsoft is determined to have Recall run, such that attempts to remove it will break standard tools, like file explorer, and perhaps other tools when Recall gets an update down the road.

Breaking things might be intentional by Microsoft, to dissuade people from removing or disabling their latest and greatest spyware tool.

[familiasouza]

Imagine every time you change your car you need to figure out where is the brake, lights control, steering wheel because some "brilliant" engineer in Seattle decided to innovate and change everything?

[martinjjnoagenda]

In the end businesses will probably demand a clear removal option as they usually have no interest in sharing everything with unknown parties. They also have their own security, backup and repair options. The average sysadmin would probably be scared to death if every user could simply reset it's computer to an earlier state. They most likely would block it.

[ahmedthebest]

Most of the time, I feel that the programming team at Microsoft is doing their best to make this system much worse every time it updates.
This makes me completely confused about how someone would want to become their most important product so badly.

[billyguthrie]

Retired microsoft engineer Dave plummer the guy who wrote task manager and windows 95 start menu said "Recall is there even in some non copiliot plus pc's but it can be disabled. whats it doing? my guess is nothing but it is a dependency for file explorer it can't be stripped out but it's still there and it's still loaded." I'm not sure but i think that's his way of saying it could be enabled at any time without the users knowledge, or that it wouldn't be loaded unless it was eventually going to be used for something. Now google is introducing their own Recall like feature called project Jarvis and yes it takes snapshots and saves them.

[mister]

I wanna profusely thank Microsoft for this feature. It gave me the final push to switch to Linux.

[ShyZShark]

Yeah, this has to be intentional. Microsoft has known that people have been stripping down their OS for over a decade. They have managed to add so many features without integrating so much of it together for this long, and now that's really starting to change. They knew that Recall was going to be on the chopping block of apps to remove. The fact that you are questioning if this is malice or incompetence is exactly the middle ground Microsoft would want the tinkering community to think, it gives them an open door, and leaves you without answers so you might stick around because "What if?". This was absolutely a market evaluation strategy for a highly questionable addition to the operating system. No matter what, the end-user, loses.

[peterjansen]

This fix shows me even more that MS deliberately tied the two. That was not a 'mistake'. At least you can easily fix it, for now.

[nubfaceforthelose]

Who at Microsoft even thought this was a good idea in the first place? There must have been some in depth meetings about it. "Sure... lets spyware the world." That's a great idea to lose your consumer base.

[lloritoovidexequield.]

With the benefit of hindsight, my decision to move to GNU/Linux in 2018 was the correct one.

[TheStevenWhiting]

It won't be mandatory as I said last time, the EU won't allow it so will be removed for the EU markets. So will be another Windows N version for the EU.

[patricknash]

As many others have pointed out before me, it is obvious why MICROSOFT is doing this. MICROSOFT intends to use recall data to train a MICROSOFT AI personal assistant for each of us, which will 'suggest' how we make decisions and live our lives. MICROSOFT hopes to addict each of us to a MICROSOFT "way".

[happysprollie]

"Is it malicious or is it incompetance?" It's interesting how these are the only options with Microsoft.

[breadmoth]

imagine taking microsoft at their word though. you know it will be reintroduced when everything has died down. want a guarantee? don't use microsoft windows anymore ... at this point and time Linux is more than capable.