swordgeek ,

Bullshit.

This whole endeavour is looking like a careful plan to implement a smaller, slightly less horrible idea in Win11, and then creep forward from there.

Remember the model to move the goal line, folks:

  • Overreach
  • Capitulate publicly and fall back to your true target
  • Repeat

Best of all, these large steps can be supplemented by nudging things forward with 'adjusttments.'

Crozekiel ,

They'll probably come to the "logical conclusion" that storing the data locally on the machine poses "too much risk" and just move the storage to their servers "for your safety"...

lazylion_ca ,

Why would anyone opt in to this? What is the point of it?

GoodEye8 ,

So that you can find that one porn video you watched six months ago that really got you off but you don't remember how you found it.

Lettuceeatlettuce ,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

Go easy on them, they're only a 3 trillion dollar company. It's hard for them to get the resources to build well thought out and secure software.

Pathetic, so glad I've been on Linux for years. I don't miss Micro$oft one bit.

ichbinjasokreativ ,

Right? Before they even officially rolled it out, there are already python scripts on github that can extract your entire recall database. They need to just stop.

Lettuceeatlettuce ,
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Wild for sure. It's pretty clear that M$ isn't interested in making their OS anything more than a portal for their cloud products.

The overall percentage of revenue that Windows produces for them directly has been steadily shrinking for years while their Azure and cloud services/licensing has grown dramatically.

I guess it makes sense from that perspective. Call me old fashioned, but I still prefer my OS to be a platform for me to compute locally on and use as I see fit. Not be a bloated ad-ridden portal to a walled garden of proprietary web software.

Windows has gotten so bad in the last year or so, that I've actually started telling people, "Try Linux, but if that doesn't work for you, just go with Apple."

Both are scummy, evil mega corps that try to lock you into their platform forever. But at least with Apple, the cage is 24K gold with a little cushion, and you're fed avocado toast & kombucha.

Windows is a rusty, filthy prison cell where the guards randomly come in to rough you up and you're fed a steady diet of stale bread heels and gruel.

jabathekek ,
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The fact that it took people not involved with Microsoft to point out and initiate internal change should be everything anyone needs to know.

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