I wish I was a billion dollar company who gets away with stuff like this. Just generally break people’s systems, add spyware, lie to users, treat them like shit.
All while making even more money and my stocks keep on going up, because AI, Ai, Ai…
I am a Mac user at home. I use windows for work, like most of us. But I keep reading all these articles and thinking, “Boy, I sure hope my company’s IT Dept. is on top of this.”
Everyone in IT wants to be ahead of the curve but we wind up being reactionary because if it ain’t broke don’t fix it…but it will break if we don’t do this…is it broken now…no but it will be…so it’s not broken we are good to go.
Wow. Obviously that’s a bonkers approach, but not at all unsurprising. A large part of my job is actually getting people off their ass to address stuff before the product breaks, and we lose revenue.
I’m on top of things when I have the time to be informed at work. I’m not doing all research after hours and might not always have time for it at work, so sometimes we too are rather reactionary.
I removed Recall just fine and now my Windows environment is Linux
I was under the impression you could still remove the feature without issue.
https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil/issues/2697#issuecomment-2403792309
That’s covered in the article you’re commenting on.
Another user on GitHub also pointed out that Microsoft’s own DISM can be used to disable the Recall service without the File Explorer consequences, although Titus points out that this behaviour seems inconsistent, as in his testing, the File Explorer still changed its appearance after a restart. Inconsistency aside, it’s unlikely that any non-technical Windows user will even know what DISM is, never mind how to use it, and this reliance on a command-line utility to remove a controversial feature is indicative of MIcrosoft’s goals.
So, some important context: you can disable Recall still. The only thing you can’t do is delete the files for it.
So it’s another potential attack surface for malware to target, something that Microsoft could enable in an update (so use Group Policy to disable it, they way they give companies with legal requirements to do so properly), and some space on your harddrive wasted.
This is NOT Microsoft requiring people to enable Recall for Explorer to work.
Still an egregious amount of bullshit, but not as much as the headline might lead you to believe.
I’m wondering how the dod is going to fix this. I’ll have to look at their stuff files.
It’s like Nadella wants people to stop using windows.
Microsoft is certainly doing an excellent job driving away Xbox users. What else do they have? Azure maybe?
They are ruining sony’s competition… I don’t get it. Like should they compete?
Linux mega supporter working from deep inside is now a super believable narrative.
It’s like Microsoft doesn’t care if the home user’s personal computer runs Windows; because they don’t care.
This is what we get for no longer being the paying customer (that and a quasi Monopoly).
I use mint on my laptop, steam runs great, but have to keep windows on the desktop because I need to run Ableton, lack of pro audio is the thing that’s holding me from full Linux right now…
Reaper works great on mint. Plus yabridge to use your windows plugins.
Aren’t there alternative file explorers for Windows? Or did support for that kind of thing end with Windows 7?
There’s Tablacus. Opus is supposed to be good too, but I haven’t tried it.
Microsoft being Microsoft…
Just generally break people’s systems, add spyware, lie to users, treat them like shit.
Too many people bought that shit. Their own fault for getting ripped another one.
