Several months after the original launch plan, Microsoft has now released the Recall feature via the Insider Program’s Dev channel, reports The Verge.
Recall is meant to help users remember things they’ve seen or read, or find their way back to websites they’ve later closed.
The feature was showcased this summer when Microsoft unveiled its venture into ARM-based Windows PCs with AI running locally, Copilot Plus. But when it turned out that it constantly stores screenshots of everything the user does on the computer in a database that was then relatively easy to access, Microsoft had to back off and go back to the drawing board.
In recent months, the company’s developers have been working on securing the feature and changing the layout so that users must manually activate it. Recall’s database is now encrypted and can only be unlocked with Windows Hello. Encryption keys are stored only in the computer’s TPM. Microsoft has also added a simple setting for companies that want to prevent employees from enabling the feature.
Initially, Recall only works on Copilot Plus computers with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips, but Microsoft promises support for Copilot Plus machines with Intel or AMD processors soon.
The settings for Recall.
Beta features tested in the Dev channel are often a bit buggier and Microsoft points out that there are still known issues in the version of Recall that has now been opened to the public. Recall can be set not to store screenshots for selected apps and websites, but the latter doesn’t work completely flawlessly, and dumps can accidentally be saved if the website is open in a split window or in Edge’s sidebar.
Source: www.sweclockers.com
