Comment on Microsoft is struggling to get Windows Recall out the door — delays releasing first public preview.
twinnie@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I don’t see why everyone hates this. It’s disabled by default and you don’t have to use it. I use Linux but thank god someone’s actually trying to make operating systems interesting again, nobody else has done anything interesting in years.
you don’t have to use it.
On windows, that phrase means somthing diffrent than on linux.
On linux a feature like this is just a command or a toggle switch in the settings.
On windows concent will be aquired in dubious ways and non-concent will be made hard.
It will be likely installed even if disabled, so your eventual malware attacker can enable it and live off the land instead of installing a key/screen that your antivirus might catch.
An OS shouldn’t be “interesting” it should be boring and secure.
This was their stance 2 months ago:
windowscentral.com/…/turns-out-you-wont-be-able-t…
I don’t think that would have changed if not for the backlash Microsoft has received for it.
Now, supposedly it’s optional and off by default, but that could change again anytime…
By anytime, it’ll be hidden in a hot fix 6 to 12 months from now.
Somemore reading, for those following along:
notebookcheck.net/Removing-Windows-Recall-breaks-… (Oct 11th)
They disabled it by default after shipping it as a security nightmare in preview builds.
You can’t add security after the fact. If it isn’t built with security as a primary design goal months before you write a line of code, it will never be secure.
s disabled by default
And how long do you think that will last? Thry only changed it to opt-in after millions of enterprise IT cybersec directors screeched in agony.
“You don’t have to use it” has never worked as a defense against Microsoft ever, Recall exists as the greatest possible privacy violation and should not even be a legal feature.
It was the straw that broke the camels back to get me to switch to Linux.
T156@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But an operating system isn’t meant to be “interesting”. It’s an operating system. It should only be meant to operate the system. The interesting should be up to whatever programs it is that a user puts on top of it, something that makes it work better (like optimisations), or at most, make it look nicer. Recall is not that. Your car should be functional as a car. It doesn’t need to be capable of baking souffles, or be a fully-functional mobile office suite. An OS should follow the same principles.