Microsoft postpones Windows Recall after major backlash — will launch Copilot+ PCs without headlining AI feature
Microsoft postpones Windows Recall after major backlash — will launch Copilot+ PCs without headlining AI feature
Windows Recall will arrive at a later date, available in preview "in the coming weeks."
How this usually goes:
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Introduce new controversial feature
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Backlash
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Postpone deployment
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Soften public opinion with marketing, rename product, change minor features, etc
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Deploy product regardless
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Enshittification complete (Until next time!)
You forgot put the option back in a random windows update without prior knowledge
Yup, you’re right. I had a bullet for that originally, but changed it.
You are absolutely correct. All the focus groups and consultancies that were surely involved in something like this and we're supposed to believe the backlash was a surprise?
This is what is happening at Redmond right now:
This is hilarious.
I love the faith, too. Like, of Microsoft, of all people. The "your Xbox is your cable box now" Microsoft. The "Here's mandatory Kinect, the Wii killer" Microsoft. The Windows Me Microsoft. The "Windows 8 is now a touch OS" Microsoft.
I gotta say, you guys really give tech companies the benefit of the doubt. I've seen too much, perhaps.
In that vein, let me propose a more accurate picture: https://img.movieboom.biz/movie/screen/681/19.jpg
You also forgot that the first mover takes the heat, then all the other competitors quietly roll out the same feature with no or minimal backlash…
Entire tech industry does this over and over again. The only way to stop dancing along is to switch to Linux instead of praying to Microsoft or Apple corporations.
All hail Linux, the One True King
At some point I'm gonna get bored of reminding people of this.
Hey, remember Timeline?
That's how you know this isn't how it works.
"We listened."
They did. That's how they know this tactic works.
And they will be sure to make every "mistake" people warned them about in stage 2 when they reach stage 5.
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5.1 Toggle the customer's opt-out setting back to opt-in every time there's a Windows update.
5.2 Remove the opt-out setting completely.
Holf off the release, half of America is currently in the restroom....
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Lmao they recalled Recall
In a few years time we will recall when Microsoft recalled Recall, but we will have to wait for a a few decades longer to get to Total Recall.
A small conspiracy theory of mine is them trying to disassociate the term windows recall with negativity. But it backfired hard lol.
Next update: Well, we never actually removed the feature because it's already irrevocably engrained in the file system. It can't be turned off or opted out of because it'll cause your hard drive to explode. Instead, we've buried it so deep that only hackers, malware, the government, and Facebook will be able to make use of it.
Microsoft: we can't turn the always online feature on the Xbox One off.
They never learn
Not good enough, it should have cancelled the feature altogether.
The tech industry is so invested in "AI" at this point that if it admits defeat, the bubble will pop.
Even the cancellation is not good enough. The fact that this was even entertained shows how disconnected Microsoft is from the real world. If they can get this so wrong what else are they getting wrong.
Could not have said it better myself.
Welp the wake up call already pushed me to linux, finally
Congratulations!
Welcome to the Penguinland
I fully expect it to be running in the background with the interface part the user can see turned off.
As we say in Germany: 'Aufgeschoben ist nich aufgehoben!'
And for those that don't sprechen die Deutsch, "postponed is not canceled!"
Ah, neat! The wordplay is definitely stronger in German, which I’m sure is why it became an idiom in the first place.
The fuck are Copilot+ PC's? Are they regular PC's with Copilot+ branding?
pcs with enough NPU compute power to run copilot locally in a reasonable performance level.
e. g with AMDs current laptops, the 7840 can do 10 tops, the 8840, which is core config/gpu wise, effectively the same cpu but with a larger NPU, pushing it to 16 tops for AI use.
outside of ai use, the one benefit to ai is that igpus are better and more of a focus, so expect low end laptop gaming to get a lot better.
They are PC that have NPUs (Neural Processing Units) in the CPU/SoC, and a few other requirements.
They are ARM based
Nope, Windows will still not be my next PC. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, you can't get fooled again.
Its kinda funny this happened with iCloud e2ee. Backlash, then much of it now is convergently encrypted but they still have the filenames and checksums/hashes for everything (which is emphatically not e2ee or at at least zero-trust as implied by the designation) and they never really needed the contents anyway. All the deets are in the metadata which is only "standard" (un)protected.
Good, now keep it that way
They won't
