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Microsoft is struggling to get Windows Recall out the door — delays releasing first public preview.
(www.windowscentral.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2024
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I'm not going to downvote you, because I'm genuinely curious: Why would this be a "very important can't-live-without feature", what's the argument?
Because from where I'm sitting as a user of various Windows & Linux products for several decades, this has never been anything I've asked for or needed, let alone wanted to take up >20Gb of my hard drive space. What is the Use Case sales pitch that convinced you?
There was no sales pitch. I hate Microsoft and do not talk to their sales people.
The tech is useful.
I'm absolutely looking for a real answer, not here to downvote or troll.
When you say "the tech is useful" I don't see it that way from my perspective because I can't think of any specific scenarios for this tech to prove valuable to me, in terms of the way that I interface with an OS.
What I'm hoping for from you is a Use Case; what specific application of this tech would you, the End User, find to be a vast improvement in the way that you interface with Windows?
This is an accessibility wet dream. That’s the biggest use case IMO. Take all of the people who struggle with memory issues or who are blind. This will completely change their life.
A few other use cases I put in a sibling comment. Sorry, you caught me on the defensive!
To Microsoft, sure. But what about the users? Which problem or problems were being solved?
Biggest impact is accessibility. Think people with memory issues or blind. This tech will change their lives.
This isn't an unreasonable suggestion, but I'm not seeing accessibility mentioned anywhere on the Recall site. For those with sight issues, I'm unclear on how the process would be with the necessary screen-reader that MS is silent on compatibility with. Sure, text to voice is a thing, but that would only be useful at home unless you really want to have a computer read out loud everything it's got in Recall.
I’m talking more abstractly about the tech vs your concrete here today Microsoft Recall implementation of the tech. It’s unfortunate M$ isn’t working towards accessibility now, but this tech will enable such things.
I appreciate the positive outlook for the possibility of things, but I live in a world where Microsoft has already violated customer trust and privacy, so I'll stick with what evidence supports. Evidence supports that this is not about customers, and is instead a new way for them to get additional data.
The risks of this being done incorrectly, at all, are much more worrisome than any speculative fiction I might want to entertain about them.