Don’t worry, Recall will record everything done on the Windows machine.
Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
Submitted 5 weeks ago by excel24@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
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kayazere@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
The important bit:
Those joining from unsupported platforms will be automatically placed in audio-only mode to protect shared content.
And I presume everything except Windows 11 Teams will be considered “unsupported”.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
I used to be able to join teams meetings in the browser version of teams from my Linux machine. I did my last job interview this way
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
There’s also the unofficial flatpak, which works rather well.
mrvictory1@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This still works, it is my only method of interaction with Teams
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Aahhwww, that is so sad, I run Linux and soon our entire office will.
Guess we won’t be using teams then, ooaaahhhwww, so sad
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
What do you use for video calls with screen share?
My coop uses teams and I want to move them off it.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
i trust signing in through the browser on linux will be supported since that’s the official way to use teams on linux
lud@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Read the article man
This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android).
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
So now my clients will have a harder time engaging with my product. Great.
gradual@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
Stop using microsoft teams, ya dolt.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Did you even read the article.
biofaust@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I don’t know to what extent they’ll go, but yes, this and the Advanced Chat Privacy in WhatsApp are just user locking moves.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Good. Do me a favour and block the audio as well.
wewbull@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
My company is transitioning to teams. Most of our engineering is on Linux.
Can Microsoft please hurry up and break teams so we can’t transition?
Joelk111@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Most of our engineering is on Linux
God I wish my company allowed that
jamescrakemerani@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
I have a Linux work laptop which they let us have but we still have to use the MS crap. Fortunately most of it is accessible through the browser but a lot of the Office apps are broken, or missing features on web.
MRIG@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
This is fairly common in software development.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
If Co is willing to use it in current state, all the breaking in the world is not going to change their mind.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Don’t worry, teams is always somewhere between 10%-30% broken, always something n doesn’t work, there are always a bunch of people that can’t get in the meeting, that can’t share screens all of the sudden because fuck you, that’s why
Teams is the absolute worst and not a day goes by without people shitting on it, and we’re only using it because most of our customers do but internally we will switch to something open source soon, because I get to make that decision 😎
taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I have looked but I just couldn’t find an open source alternative that supported Teams core features like showing an error every time I login.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
you know, sometimes I wonder if Matrix could be used in a business setting, and worry about its rough edges and buggy features of Element. but you know what! it would probably be fine! not worse than teams, and at least they don’t want to fuck you over!
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Those joining from unsupported platforms will be automatically placed in audio-only mode to protect shared content.
I think this has gone and done it for you
iLStrix@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
OK, I’m really curious on what programs your engineers use then. Engineering has been one of the use-cases for me, that made it basically impossible to switch to Linux full-time. If you know, please tell me.
wewbull@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
All the EDA tools for silicon design are Linux based.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We have Linux. We just use the in browser app. Works fine.
msbeta1421@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I hate stuff like this because screen grabs during meetings or lectures is my favorite way to take notes.
xavier666@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Nooooo. If you do that, you won’t be paying for Teams Premium which has built in support for screen recording. Think of the revenue lost 😭😭
MangoCats@feddit.it 5 weeks ago
Now I know why they’re trying to push corporate users off of Linux, again.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Pointless.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Rules for thee not mee
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
i mean if someone really wanted to commit espionage they’d just take a photo of the screen with their camera.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I suspect running teams on Windows in Parallels on a Mac would still let me use the Mac’s screen record feature.
lipilee@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
now that all the performance, reliability, and usability issues are solved in Teams, it’s great to see all that energy going into this useful feature that is surely not possible to circumvent in any way.
SubUrbanIT@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Now we get to break it.
Grimtuck@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’ll have to use the camera phone again then.
AllBiMyself@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Microsoft is working on adding a new Teams feature that will prevent users from capturing screenshots of sensitive information shared during meetings.
Clickbait title
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
No, the title is quite accurate. There is no magic to discern “sensitive” data from that which is not.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s not accurate because it will be an optional feature.
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Doubt it will prevent flameshot from working if I use teams in firefox
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
“This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android).”
Knowing ms they’ll just make browsers audio only going forward
bitchkat@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Run teams in a VM and take a screen shot from the host OS.
phx@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Or just use the smartphone camera that almost everyone is going to have anyhow…
tauren@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Recording a 1h meeting with a smartphone sounds like a nightmare.
embed_me@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Like record it using a camera? That’s a substantial downgrade
kepix@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
on a work laptop?
morphballganon@mtgzone.com 5 weeks ago
Some of us have remote desktop capabilities on our wfh machines
gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
they should also blank the screen if the user has recall enabled
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Are you stupid? Next week they will sell an add on that let’s you recall the whole meeting. You need to start thinking outside the box if you’re gonna make it in scummy corporate sales.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So many commenters here and at the article get a hard on to bash MS for anything.
MS won’t make this a requirement, nor will they make using the Teams app a requirement. This isnt some backhanded way to get people to switch from Linux to windows.
This is MS responding to an enterprise feature request.
yesman@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The reflexive hate for M$ is not irrational fan-boys bashing a rival, but bitterness over prolonged and profound annoyance, suffering, and downright abuse experienced through using the products produced by that dogshit company.
I switched because I wanted software that didn’t hate me and my values.
What’s irrational is the Stockholm-syndrome Windows user who thinks it’s normal and right to run software that spies, advertises, and generally treats users like a resource to be exploited.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Both are irrational IMO. Don’t make up reasons to hate a feature, but do attack the features that spy on you.
Iambus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Because Lemmy Linux bros like to get their titty in a twist.
gradual@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
I think it’s more that average users aren’t accustomed to seeing Linux be a larger part of discussions here than on corporate platforms.
mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The moment a certain company is mentioned in an article, lemmy will go rabid, it doesn’t really matter what the article is about. I am a Linux nerd and if MS crashed and burned tomorrow I wouldn’t exactly shed a tear but the knee jerk reactions are pretty weird to observe.
fatalicus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah, commented on the sister thread of this over on the technology subreddit that this wouldnt be a default on feature, and probably be either something the meeting owner has to enable (or tenant admins set to enabled in a policy) or it will be part of sensitivity labels or DLP policies.
Instant downvote.
biofaust@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I bet they will still make it default.
Bieren@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is so you can then use their super cool and completely accurate AI summary tool that will be coming soon.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“The meeting was about polishing yaks. The conclusion was green is important fudge.”
toastmeister@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
This is why they require a TPM, your motherboard will be DRM against you owning the operating system.
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
I installed Windows 11 with an unsupported CPU, kinda funny how it just worked despite all their screeching that it wouldn’t work and updating not working, but installing with installation media was flawless.
It’s a real bitch, automatically logging me into my partner’s account for the whole system and overriding my local user settings when I open MS Office apps Excel or Word, and it cries about my lack of TPM on those apps and the Start menu when it does log in, but you know what? Everything still actually operates.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
I don’t want to be that guy, but why use Windows at that point?
original_reader@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
…for now.
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 5 weeks ago
What CPU?
The list of unsupported CPUs is for OEMs licensing new computers as Windows 11 certified.
Nothing stopping you installing Windows 11 or upgrading to Windows 11 with an incompatible CPU.
The only item that requires a hack is the lack of TPM. Now that I still don’t understand.
SubUrbanIT@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Gonna be difficult to block screen capture when I have a phone in my hand with a camera that can be record what I see.
Zacryon@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Don’t be so bold. Microsoft is investing in military AI applications. So don’t be surprised when your computer slaps that camera right out of your hands and punches you in the face. /j (or not, idk, things are looking bad)
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There are some autonomous cars with lidar out there where the lidar is so powerful it can wreck a camera close up, but is still safe for eyes.
Switch up FaceID to use a more powerful laser which will wreck the phones camera.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So you’re saying that I can just start an infinite empty meeting in order to block the AI Recall thing from recording my screen?
chunes@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There are going to be fifty different bypasses up on github by the end of the week. This makes me want to join a corpo and record their precious meetings
OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
To be clear this is an option enabled by the host. It most likely won’t be used for normal meetings.
gradual@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
More and more, I notice that Microsoft’s ubiquity in our society is to reinforce the idea that we need to take abuse and reward our abusers in order to be successful.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 weeks ago
“To address the issue of unauthorized screen captures during meetings, the Prevent Screen Capture feature ensures that if a user attempts to take a screen capture, the meeting window will turn black, thereby protecting sensitive information,” Microsoft shared in a new Microsoft 365 roadmap entry.
“This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android).”
Yeah, seems like a perfectly reasonable feature to add. It will also likely be a toggle-able feature switch.
Surely there’s no way Lemmy gets angry at this, right?
ouch@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android).”
What about Teams browser?
OBS Studio has been able to record Teams meetings so far, on Linux.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Why would one use an intentionally impaired tool?
phantomwise@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
It’s okay people, even if the feature in itself is not awful, MS Teams still is awful. We can still bash on MS to relieve past Windows trauma.
nocteb@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
So does running teams in a windows vm prevent me to take a screenshot on the Linux host? I can’t imagine it would.
FermionWrangler@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
There will be ways to capture it anyway. Probably specific software designed for GPU capture, since that’s how these apps “prevent” capturing, using GPU trickery.
Goretantath@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Welp, there goes any accountability.
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So take a fucking picture with your phone
Kannushi_Link@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So it would block screen/video capture, but will it block sound-only capture, too?
leicharben@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Psythik@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Yeah seriously; this won’t even stop normies. Everybody knows how to take a picture with their phone. Why bother?
Dultas@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Hell a lot of people would probably default to using a phone because they don’t know how print screen works.