Windows Recall is finally nearing launch, Microsoft suggests

A hot potato: It appears that one of the most controversial features Microsoft has ever created, Recall, will launch soon. Recall is designed to capture screenshots of everything you do on a Copilot+ PC so users can search through their previous activity, including web browsing. But it was delayed more than once over security concerns.

Microsoft wrote in a post yesterday that a preview version of Recall is being rolled out to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel on Windows 11, version 24H2, suggesting a broader release isn't far off.

Recall was supposed to arrive as a feature on Copilot+ PCs in June 2024. In a demonstration of the product, Microsoft showed how users could type in (or speak) something to search for before scrolling through a timeline of everything they had done on a PC related to that query.

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