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Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 3 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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If you thought that Microsoft was done with Recall after its catastrophic reveal as the main feature of Copilot+ PCs, you are mistaken.

Microsoft wants to bring it back this October 2024. Good news is that the company plans to introduce it in test builds of the Windows 11 operating system in October. In other words: do not expect the feature to hit stable Windows 11 PCs before 2025 at the earliest.

While Recall may have sounded great on paper and on work-related PCs, users and experts alike expressed concern. Users expressed fears that malware could steal Recall data to know exactly what they did in the past couple of months.

Others did not trust Microsoft to keep the data secure. We suggested to make Recall opt-in, instead of opt-out, to make sure that users knew what they were getting into when enabling it.

Microsoft pulled the Recall feature shortly after its announcement and published information about its future in June. There, Microsoft said that it would make Recall opt-in by default. It also wanted to improve security by enrolling in Windows Hello and other features.

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[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You could use GUI partitioning tools to just remove the windows partition and expand your debian installation. Did you install an extra bootloader for linux?

[–] spacecadet@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes i installed and changed the boot order to do Debian first, disabled secure and fast boot also. I heard that could cause som issues

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It can, but that's not what I meant. When booting linux, do you see the blue windows menu where you can decide between debian and windows or does linux just start? If it just starts, you can just delete the windows partition (make sure to check that all important data has been copied to linux or you will loose it!). If unsure which partition it is, it's the one with ntfs as the file system.

[–] spacecadet@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It’s not a blue window, it says Debian and lets me choose between Debian as the first option and windows as like the third one

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Good, but as pointed out by another user, you might need to reconfigure grub after deleting the windows partition. Or save your files on an external media and reinstall debian over the entire disk if you don't want to mess around.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Be careful expanding the Linux partition, depending on how you've set things up, you may need to reinstall the bootloader after doing it. So keep a live USB around in case things don't boot so you can do that.