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Microsoft's Controversial 'Recall' Feature is Already Experiencing Some Issues

Microsoft's controversial "Recall" feature (in a public preview of Windows 11) already has some known issues, Microsoft admitted Friday. For example: - Recall can be enabled or disabled from "Turn Windows features on or off". We are caching the Recall binaries on disk while we test add/remove. In ...

CNBC adds that according to Microsoft Recall "won't work with some accessibility programs, and if you specify that Recall shouldn't save content from a given website, it might get captured anyway while using the built-in Edge browser..." But those aren't the only issues CNBC noticed:- While you might expect that your computer will be recording every last thing you look at once you've turned on Recall, it can go several minutes between making snapshots, leaving gaps in the timeline. Recall clearly had two screen images that mention "Yankees," but when I typed that into the search box, only one of them came up as a text match. - Recall made a screenshot while I was scrolling through posts on social network BlueSky, and one contains a photo of a New York street scene.

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