Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency - eviltoast

TLDR:
Windows 11 v24H2 and beyond will have Recall installed on every system. Attempting to remove Recall will now break some file explorer features such as tabs.

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  • gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    After all the fud and opposition they’ve pushed against it over the years.

    what did they do?? i havent heard of this before damn

    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      They did PR campaigns against Linux and OpenOffice for quite some time – until cloud computing took off and it turned out they could earn more money by supporting Linux than by fighting it.

      In fact, Microsoft weren’t happy about FOSS in general. I can still remember when they tried to make “shared source” a thing: They made their own ersatz OSI with its own set of licenses, some of which didn’t grant proper reuse rights – like only allowing you to use the source code to write Windows applications.