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dumb fucking corporations will still line their pockets with money.
The struggle is real for M$ - recall is a Security Incident waiting to happen.
I don't think this will bury MS because they can easily market this to enterprise clients ( if they haven't already ). Recall is a particularly useful tool for any employer that wants to keep track of everything employees do, especially in an age of WFH. They probably figured they can take the PR hit from users concerned about privacy and move on unaffected.
Any enterprise working with sensitive data certainly has to disable the feature. And turns out, that's most enterprises.
I have heard very little, if any, enthusiasm about this. Nobody seems to be excited about it at all.
Microsoft has already taken a step back: Microsoft implements drastic changes to Recall after criticism
And no one is going to trust them on this. They’ve burned that bridge.
I really hope the damage is done. They need to be knocked down a peg. This all should have been done first. Whoever thought this was a good idea is horrible.
Microsoft lost my trust a long time ago. For the last 10-15 years, my only relationship with them is, "how much sh*t am I willing to put up with before I switch to something else?"
And CoPilot/Recall was the breaking point.
Linux!: Had set It up years ago when it was a slog. Came back recently after Windows did this— and it was so much easier.
Work? Yes. The comfort of knowing I’ve put off for one more day the tech ubergods carving my life open? Also yes.
Aside from the security nightmare, I'm really curious what havoc the LLM can cause by hallucinating stuff, based on how suggestive a question is asked.
Wife on husband's account: "What dating sides did I visit this year?"
"Here are the 5 most popular dating sides you visited last year:..."
"When was the last time employee X watched porn and on what side?"
...
Microsoft should go further and further with this so that windows becomes worse so that less people use it.
