Literally no one wants this “feature”.
Microsoft has lost their collective minds.
Microsoft has lost their collective minds.
I can see most people, and by that I mean the rest of the world outside Techiestan and Hacker News, will want or perhaps even need this feature.
Having the computer literally show you what you were doing is super duper handy for Joe Average who doesn't computer and certainly doesn't care about learning to computer.
The data is not small. If it was being uploaded, you'd notice.
microsoft regularly makes promises about privacy and telemetry, and regularly breaks them. They have been multiple law suites about this.
In germany we say "Wo ein Trog ist, sammeln sich die Schweine", especially in the discussion around recall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0lUbqDrFWU
NSFW
Will be a lot easier with Recall
I am good with terminal, browser, NP++ and few other programs, while some people don't even know the existence of a file system hierarchy, or want to touch things to interact with them instead of typing.
To be fair I also presently have several hundred tabs open and never delete anything.
I'm kinda surprised people just throw away their history. I love being able to restore deleted posts as long as I remember a few words of the content
EDIT: I meant opt-in.
I get anxiety if I don't restart my devices daily.
If there hadn't been decades of normality of browsers storing history then people, particularly those in tech circles, would absolutely flip their shit if it were announced as part of Edge. There would be mass revolts on these forums if it would sync with the cloud. It makes measuring how popular a concept would be difficult as what is niche today and what is wildly unpopular with tech folks today may or may not have any relation whatsoever to what will be popular with users in the long term.
The idea of recording my activity on my laptop is something I could see being useful in a business where I’m billing non-stop and this feature would automatically generate invoices.
But on my personal laptop? I really can’t think of a single legitimate scenario.
More importantly, I think Microsoft should be demonstrating what use cases it envisions outside of potentially generating LLM training data.
> Recall’s analysis allows you to search for content, including both images and text, using natural language. Trying to remember the name of the Korean restaurant your friend Alice mentioned? Just ask Recall and it retrieves both text and visual matches for your search, automatically sorted by how closely the results match your search. Recall can even take you back to the exact location of the item you saw.
Of course you're welcome to say this isn't a legitimate scenario for you, just as someone might say no situation is legitimate for them to need browser history, but that doesn't mean there is no legitimate scenario for consumers in general. It also doesn't say much from you beyond "I don't like it".
It lets me find back pages I know I browsed in the past with a (few) keyword(s) in the address bar without firing a web search, which might not return the same results as last time. Like, what was the exact crêpe recipe I followed last time?
The alternative is bookmarks but then you need to think of bookmarking the page at the time you access it, but you don't always know you will want to go back to a page later.
It also makes it very efficient to reach pages I visit frequently. Unfortunately it also makes procrastination very efficient, with slacking off one character away ('n').