Redmond hopes you’ve forgotten or got over why everyone hated it the first time After temporarily shelving its controversial Windows Recall feature amid a wave of backlash, Microsoft is back at it - now quietly slipping the screenshotting app into the Windows 11 Release Preview channel for Copilot+ PCs, signaling its near-readiness for general availability.…

  • frazw@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Aside from privacy issues I’m sure running out of storage space on my work laptop all the time will get loads better when I have to find space for all this extra data that has nothing to do with actually getting my job done. I am constantly fighting running out of HD space due to the need to generate a lot of data, video, images etc. Adobe software takes up more than it needs to and complains if you don’t have tons of spare space for it whenever you use it.

    I can count on one amputated hand the number of times I would have needed this feature.

    I only hope my company’s IT see the security risk and disable it by default.

    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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      18 days ago

      Your local storage will be fine because they’ll just send it to the cloud by default for now. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻