The event that Microsoft held today in front of a small media group in the USA allowed us to talk about what we can expect from artificial intelligence in Windows 11, as well as introducing its new and ambitious Copilot + computers.

Among all these innovations, there is a very special innovation: its name To remember (Spanish for “Memories”) and is an evolution of the traditional Windows Explorer. The element that creates the real revolution in this application is artificial intelligence.

According to Microsoft, “It will be as if you have a photographic memory in a way that’s natural to you.” This component will only be available on new Copilot+ PCs with new chips that offer sufficiently powerful neural processing units (NPUs).

Introducing the option, Yusuf Medhi mentioned that users often use all kinds of methods to set reminders. We write ourselves emails, leave browser tabs open, or write notes to avoid getting lost. Recall does this by using artificial intelligence.

“How recall helps me solve tasks,” explained Carolina Hernández, one of Microsoft’s product managers. She showed that after searching for dresses on Pinterest, Recall reminded her how to find the dresses she saw weeks later.

Therefore, Recall serves as a great assistant for: remember the things we did and save and we were simply looking for. The app creates relationships between colors, images, and other aspects of things it recognizes, and then we can ask Recall questions about something using natural language. It is like a powerful search engine for our activities on the computer.

In one of the examples in the Microsoft demo, Recall managed to find exactly a PowerPoint presentation and slide we wanted to edit. There’s even a timeline that allows you to go back and forth in time to see what we’re working on at each moment while editing the presentation.

The question, of course, is what implications this tool has in terms of privacy: Where is all this data stored and what guarantee do we have that it will not “go” to Microsoft servers? According to Microsoft, “We built Recall with responsible AI principles and aligned it with our standards.”

Moreover, Microsoft also emphasized that: “The recall will be private, local and secure and will run on the device. “We will not use any of this information to train our AI models.”

To act as a photographic memory, Recall uses a semantic index where all content is indexed and associated for future searches. According to Microsoft, Windows has been redesigned to take advantage of this type of feature, and the new Windows Copilot client leverages up to 40 different AI models to implement AI functions like Recall in Windows 11.

These new functions include some striking ones, as Microsoft demonstrated while playing Minecraft: The new Copilot could explain what the player was doing in real time with a synthetic voice and provide additional information. Copilot+ PCs will have options like Super Resolution for restoring old photos, as well as an AI narrator that can identify photos, which is an interesting accessibility aid.

Be that as much as possible, currently the star feature seems to be Recalland if it delivers what it promises, we’re looking at one of the most promising Windows options in recent years.

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