Good, very good news for Windows 11 users. Or, more precisely, from the part that sees with concern (and in fact they have every reason to do so, as recently proved) that the enthusiasm shown by Microsoft with regard to artificial intelligence may eventually become a serious risk for the users of its products and services, both in terms of privacy and security.

Although this was a concern that had already spread in circles most concerned with privacy and security, it was with the announcement of the Recall that these concerns have started to spread among mere mortals who use Windows 11. And it’s no wonder, because, as we’ve been telling you for the past few weeks, it didn’t take long for the first evidence to emerge of the real risks it poses. Fortunately, Microsoft has addressed these concerns (in particular, Recall is enabled by default in Windows 11), and as we learned today, they’ve also (temporarily) removed the preview for this year’s big update.

However, The problem is not limited to Recall (not even Microsoft actually) artificial intelligence is getting to many places very quickly because there are quite a few tech companies that want to get positions in open competition lately. And of course, this worries more and more users who worry that these quick implementations may have bought some time at the expense of neglecting privacy. In other words, there is a growing group of users who don’t want AI on their devices.

It seems, and very good for them, that Redmond has reconfirmed the income, because from what we read in Digital Trends, Microsoft lets you completely disable artificial intelligence in Windows 11. To that end, as you can see in the tweet about this paragraph, new configuration settings have been introduced in the Canary channel’s Insider Preview Build build 26236 (strangely not documented in its announcement) that allow how to choose which apps can use them. AI, for example, each user account in this system can choose to use it in general or not.

Microsoft’s attitude (which, I repeat, is not something that can be attributed exclusively to Redmond) is understandable in the current context, an open war in which AI-based features are intended to attract ordinary users. The problem is that their inadequate implementation, as well as the imposition of their use, can have just the opposite effect, especially with growing concerns about it. So, and as I said, when they changed their criteria for default activation of Recall, I think so Microsoft is doing the right thing again.