Microsoft makes Recall ["Recall" is the name of the product] an optional feature on Copilot+ PCs after it 'heard a clear signal' from the public
Microsoft makes Recall ["Recall" is the name of the product] an optional feature on Copilot+ PCs after it 'heard a clear signal' from the public
Better security has been added too but does that matter when you now have the option to ignore a feature nobody asked for?
And it will be activated after every update, not using it will be made as inconvenient as can be.
OOBE will be a page that is very specifically crafted to make it sound as absolutely necessary, useful, and important as possible, in gushing flowery language, with a big giant Yes button and a tiny little No button in the bottom corner backed by five levels of "are you sure?" prompts.
Year of the Linux desktop!
Not related but i disabled Google's access to my microphone and then somehow my phone lost the ability to send photos. I cant confirm the two things were related but it really feels deliberate.
I don’t want it to be optional. I don’t want it to exist at all
So it goes in the same bin as the last dozen 'features' they added that nobody wanted. Microsoft, do you even use your own product?
Microsoft is the guy who designs cupholders and never tries them out!
Now, about those ads..
I'm reading the excerpt from the article in the original context. It's funny how well it shows that:
- Microsoft is a piece of shit. Honest people don't use euphemisms, such as calling strong opposition a "clear signal".
- The feature is likely trash from the PoV of most of its customers.
- If the feature is still being pushed through, it means that Microsoft - not the customer - gets something out of it.
- Based on the above "listening to and acting on customer feedback" is either a lie, if not a "technical truth".
Case in point the spyware is still being installed in your system, it's just not turned on by default. Expect a lot of "oopsie it turns itself on by default, it's a bug!" or annoying pop-ups that boil down to "I don't understand, why are you user too stupid to understand simple concepts like obedience? You've been told to use it". Simply because Microsoft has already a huge backstory of doing it.
I just borked my desktop putting my arch laptop config on it. But I'm about to fucken do it again and download KDE Plasma this time. Sick of degrading trust and UX.
More like after they realized how much legal shit they'd be in if Recall data were compromised
This was the right thing to do. But it doesn't matter how many consumer-friendly things Microsoft does, as long as Windows is still proprietary, that's the problem. Anything else is a side effect.
This is why every PC should at the very least have a dual boot config these days with a Linux distro. Ubuntu, fedora, mint, pop, mx, it doesn't matter, take back your PC and have some kind of fallback in case Microsoft fucks your shit up, even Steve from gamers Nexus is considering ditching Windows for their office computers.
I mean, at least they're listening to feedback rather than jamming it through.