They better recall it. Duh, while this feature could be potentially a wonderful thing for humanity, it's execution is as poor as the name. What do you call a recall? Holy cow, no company ever thought of a recall in a good way. One of the worst marketing term one could've invented ๐
Anyways what is this, and what's the fuss about it?
- It takes screenshots of your screen, every time it sees an activity;
- It recognizes the text, and saves it in plain text;
- It then allows you to recall what have you done 5 minutes ago by searching through-out your search history.
I can't see anything flawed in this work-flow ๐... One of the most critical things here is, it will definitely take screenshots of your credit card details and keep them in plain text.
Imagine somebody being able to just look at your entire history of what you did at your computer literally step by step, this is exactly this. In case you ever loose your laptop, loose the access to your computer, you're simply put - doomed ๐. As the attacker will be able to just check-out all of your history, and this person can impersonate you, better than you could, because all he needs to do is look into your history. Reminds me of that movie with Sandra Bullock where she got her life hacked.
Damn, can't even think of a worse feature to be implemented. We all know how secure is microsoft and it's reputation for disallowing intruders into your computers.
Wait, it's even worse, if you use a company computer, the System Administrator, and upper management, will always be able to just check whatever you did remotely, even without your consent, because that's how company computers work. So if you slacked or said something bad about your boss in a company chat, now everybody will know about this! Now I can't talk shit about my boss ๐ฑ!
Lastly, something that is kind of dumb and makes me laugh is the system requirements for this feature:
Your PC needs the following minimum system requirements for Recall:
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Copilot+ PC, 16 GB RAM, 8 logical processors, 256 GB storage capacity.
To enable Recall, youโll need at least 50 GB of storage space free.
This means it'll make your computer slow, simply because it has to process all that information in the background.
What a move microsoft ๐