After initially announcing it was going to change its Recall feature and then pulling the preview Windows release containing the feature, Microsoft has now given in almost entirely and is delaying Recall altogether. Instead of shipping it on every new Copilot+ PC, they’re going to release it as an optional feature for Windows Insiders.
Today, we are communicating an additional update on the Recall (preview) feature for Copilot+ PCs. Recall will now shift from a preview experience broadly available for Copilot+ PCs on June 18, 2024, to a preview available first in the Windows Insider Program (WIP) in the coming weeks. Following receiving feedback on Recall from our Windows Insider Community, as we typically do, we plan to make Recall (preview) available for all Copilot+ PCs coming soon.
↫ Pavan Davuluri on the Windows blog
It’s incredible just how much Microsoft has bungled the launch of this feature, as it’s now almost overshadowing everything else that comes with these new ARM laptops. They rushed to shove machine learning into a major feature, and didn’t stop to think about the consequences.
Typical Silicon Valley behaviour.
I can just imagine the scene in the office; some intern not drinking to kool-aid questions the feature, the managers putting them on paperclip-straightening duty… Then the announcement, the fallout, the disaster!
… In in some months time, the crate of paperclips will be a crate of papersticks, the intern dishevelled, eyes without soul, meanwhile the managers give themselves a bonuses and hearty pat on the back.
Exactly this. As the top related post notes “Windows longhorn, Blackcomb Plans in Flux”. Same as it ever was.
The fact that recall was storing stuff like passwords in plain text is so hilarious.
Something using such complex technology, only to produce such a moronic end result.
Don’t change Microsoft!