I got a chance to demo Recall — and it’s a lot more polished than I thought.
What is Recall? Only the most controversial AI-powered feature that Microsoft has dropped this year.
Long story short, it’s like your own personal digital scrapbook. Using frequently taken screenshots, it saves snapshots of your PC activity, allowing you to go back and revisit them whenever you want.
Thanks to a timeline scrubber, you can scroll through everything that happened each day. Plus, you can use natural language to search for things within your Recall history.
However, some security experts expressed concerns about Recall, fearing that hackers would see it as a gateway for stealing user data.
In response, Microsoft delayed Recall’s rollout and addressed fears and anxieties by, in part, requiring Windows Hello (e.g., biometric authentication like fingerprint scanning and facial recognition) to access Recall.
Now that Recall is more secure, Microsoft wants Windows users to give it a chance.