This blatant idiocy was a big factor pushing me to switch to Linux. I never looked back.
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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Unfortunately, if you message anyone using windows, your message content can now be swept up on their machine even if you use a secure message system, provided that secure system ends up displaying in plain text for the end user.
Oh, I'm sure law enforcement will put this system to good use. If you keep using Windows with this, you have to assume that any interaction with your PC will end up as evidence against you in court.
Play Disney IP on your computer at all times and let Disney lawyers handle the rest.
So if someone is reading a personal email I sent them, in this case it is likely covertly screenshot by Microsoft. I abandoned MS in the early 2000s over privacy concerns and monopolistic behaviour. But I never thought I would think twice about messaging someone with a Windows computer. Here we are.
If you're worried about private emails being captured, wait until you find out how email fundamentally works. It ain't peer-to-peer if that's what you thought. Even P2P isn't peer-to-peer lol
That why I said “messaging” too.
Yeah, same thing for all messaging. Even SMSs are retained for a looong time which is why they all flood in when you get reception.
The trick is knowing that when you hit send on anything, it's no longer yours. What happens to it next is entirely controlled by something or someone else. It's as private as those you gave it to will keep it. Data governance 101.
That’s true. I suppose my point is that those things don’t make an additional vulnerability any more palatable.
I can't tell if this will be limited to Copilot+ PCs. In any case, this is the straw for me. Nothing Microsoft can offer is worth this dystopian bullshit.
Aside from privacy issues I'm sure running out of storage space on my work laptop all the time will get loads better when I have to find space for all this extra data that has nothing to do with actually getting my job done. I am constantly fighting running out of HD space due to the need to generate a lot of data, video, images etc. Adobe software takes up more than it needs to and complains if you don't have tons of spare space for it whenever you use it.
I can count on one amputated hand the number of times I would have needed this feature.
I only hope my company's IT see the security risk and disable it by default.
Your local storage will be fine because they'll just send it to the cloud by default for now. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Copilot + PC requirement. AI model is locally run on the pc. Everytime you ask how much RAM Windows takes, it gets bigger.