Microsoft Recall, tested: I like it, but I just can’t trust it [Video]

Set aside all of the privacy concerns concerning Recall, Microsoft’s AI-powered memory tool within Windows. Even if I want to like it — and I do want to — I don’t think it’s quite dependable yet to solve all of my problems.

Privacy advocates don’t want anything spying on them as they browse the Web, check email, post on social media, and so on. People who chase scattered details across the Web for publication, like me, are much more welcoming. Where Recall falls short right now is that is sort of fails on both: it’s there, always watching, but not closely enough that you can depend upon it to find the critical detail that you missed.

I spent the better part of a week with Recall running in the background, trying to see a.) whether it would actually prove to be useful enough to keep and b.) whether I could …