In a few days it will be three months We first heard about Recall. It was at the launch of the Copilot+ PC specification, and the truth is that everyone at Microsoft seemed particularly excited about this new feature, which promised to be the perfect helper to go through our memories, all those related to using a PC. . They described it as a kind of photographic memory that would forever put an end to those half-memories where we remember something but can’t locate it.

However, with this announcement Microsoft was being naive starting up which, from all possible points of view, has not sufficiently considered the proposition which it presents with such enthusiasm. And so it was a revolutionary feature for them that would attract a lot of users, it didn’t even take 24 hours for them to find themselves in the eye of the storm, and shortly after that the first official investigation was launched to try to find out if the crown jewel of AI-based features for Windows 11 was a privacy threat.

While the original plan was to enable Recall by default on all compatible systems, thankfully they ended up not just bringing it back, but delaying it sine to die its launch. Of course, in the midst of the more than terrible controversy that this new feature caused, it did not act in this way would leave Microsoft in a terribly difficult situationwhich also threatened the potential market success of the Copilot+ PC platform, one of Microsoft’s biggest bets in the world of artificial intelligence, which has also been joined by several manufacturers.

And what happened since then? Well basically radio silence. Again, Microsoft has not communicated its plans regarding the Recall and as we can read in WindowsLatest, he does not even answer direct questions about the plans and future of this feature. And it’s likely that although they already have a reasonably defined plan of action, they’ve decided to proceed with much more caution after the more-than-damaging effects of their initial announcement.

Microsoft ruled out Recall? In fact, it seems highly unlikely.because it’s true that it’s a feature that, when presented better, can be very interesting, and the latest example of this we have in Screenshots, Google’s feature for Pixel devices, which takes the good from Recall, but gives all the control over that user. It seems likely that Microsoft will pay close attention to this and other similar features and reformulate their own to fix all the problems of the original approach. But it is true that even in this way you will have to face many initial rejections. But if you do things right, you still have room to travel.