Microsoft caves, announces they have disabled default AI recall - Kotaku In Action 2

Microsoft caves, announces they have disabled default AI recall (www.securityweek.com)

posted 196 days ago by dagthegnome 196 days ago by dagthegnome +59 / -1

Microsoft Bows to Public Pressure, Disables Controversial Windows Recall by Default

Amidst public pressure, Microsoft changes the set-up experience of Copilot+ PCs to disable the controversial Windows Recall feature by default.

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– RoulerBleu 13 points 195 days ago +13 / -0

A couple years ago Microsoft tried to forcefull install ( as if it was just a routine minor update they don't ask permission for ) a new Windows version on my mother's potato laptop, which definetively could NOT handle it without slowing down to a crawl.

She had just shut the lid closed ( pausing it ) and asked for help.

I had to force it to shut down to crash the installation and thankfully it could unfuck itself back to its previous operating system. I disabled all Windows updates. ( It's a 2013 cheap laptop. It still ''works'' plugged, but the poor battery totally died years ago. Oddly-enough you can still buy those curiously-shaped replacement cylindrical laptop batteries. )

In more recent Windows version, you cannot disable all Windows updates without a third-party program. You can only ''pause'' updates and they resume after a few days.

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– fauxgnaws 8 points 195 days ago +8 / -0

Turned off TPM just so Win 11 wouldn't be installed by 'accident'. For me the threat of boot sector malware isn't a big concern.

You can get wushowhide.diagcab from Microsoft to skip any update you want, but it's a lot of effort whereas before it was just uncheck the checkbox.

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