Saturday, April 26th 2025

Microsoft Launches Recall and Integrates AI into Search, Plus Other Updates
Microsoft has deployed three AI features to Copilot+ PCs through the Windows 11 April 2025 non-security preview update. Users can finally access the long-promised Recall, Click to Do, and enhanced Windows Search by enabling "Get the latest updates as soon as they're available" in Settings > Windows Update. Recall operates as a background capture system that takes periodic screenshots, encrypts them via the device's TPM chip, and stores them locally. The system creates a searchable index organized by keywords, dates, and applications. Privacy controls include Windows Hello authentication for settings changes, app-specific exclusions, customizable retention periods, and snapshot deletion options. Windows E3 enterprise deployments can implement Group Policy controls for centralized management.
Click to Do functions at the window manager level, activated by Win + Click or touchscreen right swipe. The context-aware tool provides different capabilities based on content type, offering summarization and translation for text, and background removal and editing for images. Image processing works across all Copilot+ hardware, while text functionality currently supports only Snapdragon processors, with AMD Ryzen AI 300-series and Intel Core Ultra 200V compatibility scheduled for later release. The updated Windows Search implements a compact language model running directly on the device's NPU. This enables natural-language queries throughout Windows interfaces, allowing users to find content without exact filenames. The system operates on NPUs rated at over 40 TOPS and delivers 70 percent faster retrieval than Windows 10.
Sources:
Windows Blog, via Tom's Hardware
Click to Do functions at the window manager level, activated by Win + Click or touchscreen right swipe. The context-aware tool provides different capabilities based on content type, offering summarization and translation for text, and background removal and editing for images. Image processing works across all Copilot+ hardware, while text functionality currently supports only Snapdragon processors, with AMD Ryzen AI 300-series and Intel Core Ultra 200V compatibility scheduled for later release. The updated Windows Search implements a compact language model running directly on the device's NPU. This enables natural-language queries throughout Windows interfaces, allowing users to find content without exact filenames. The system operates on NPUs rated at over 40 TOPS and delivers 70 percent faster retrieval than Windows 10.
46 Comments on Microsoft Launches Recall and Integrates AI into Search, Plus Other Updates
Sorry, but this just seems like yet ANUTHA shit-show-side-loaded way of M$ pushing folks to buy new CPU's, mobo's ect or a new pc altogether.....
Soooo...now you can "officially" talk to your pc (instead of taking .00328ns to type something in) and let the bot find shit for you.....and guess who gets a copy of those searches & results ?????
I think I'll stick with the old-fashion way, thank you :D
we launch a service no user asked for, giving you the
the unique telemetry experience that only genuine MS
product can offer.
Users, enjoy our Worlds only true SaaS!
System as a Spyware™ - Windows!
(Standing Ovations)
Evading Antivirus and Antimalware software since Windows 1.0
In 2006 Balmer aka Monkeyboy was dancing and shouting Developers developers developers,
In 2025 Nadella aka Bowl shows you an AI Prompt demo and users shout Telemetry telemetry telemetry
you need to install Wireshark and let it run on idle, even after applying every known cutoff
Surprise!
Only way to prevent Windows from pissing all over your privacy is to
put a firewall that actually will stop any outcoing/incoming connection unless
you say so, meaning its at minimum a kernel-mode driver, because everyting
else Windows just overrides and appends their telemetry sucking IPs and Hostnames
to whitelists that there is - if you run something build on top of Windows Firewall
you gonna have a wake up call because those just lull users into control of very
own hardware to give your data away - or you truly think that this is used to make
Windows better at anything aside of being a better Big Brother.
Win10 really should have been the last Windows. It was the last one people were content to use, between its predecessor and successor versions.
Progress is slow but steady. Hoping for a beta release within 5 to 10 years, and I'm saying that with a straight face : it'll be a beautiful day, as it'll have become even more badly needed by then. LLM-assisted coding will have been refined too, and may help them accelerate the release.
How about you use AI to fix your crappy Intune functionality, or streamline AD for those still on it, or fix the absolute mess of the management console, or de-bloat win 11 so it doesn't run like an absolute dog.
An AI that can sort outlook emails and give you a summary of most important ones, etc - would be really cool.
Nope... we're going to make it take screenshots of everything you do so we ... i mean "you!" can search it later... you know... in case you forget...
here should be a massive pushback from the eu over recall and ai assisted local search
Recall makes finding them dead simple. My only complaint is that the security needed to enable it is now too aggressive. If you use an external webcam for Windows Hello, you can't enable the feature. The webcam needs to be integrated and support new security features.
In any case, if you have a PC that's dedicated for work, Recall is fantastic.
I am dual booting Windows 11 pro and currently CachyOS on two separate drives.
While one could dual boot on one drive, the cost of storage is plenty cheap enough these days and dual booting Windows and Linux on separate drives is the better approach and very simple.
My Windows 11 pro installation is stripped back of some of the excess bloat and with the exception of 1 or 2 bits of software I use from time to time, the only software installed is all gaming related.
I spend pretty much all of my computing time in Linux and only boot into Windows for gaming and maintenance only.
I have never really tried gaming in Linux but I am aware that these days Linux gaming is pretty solid, I am however also aware that there are issues that still need resolving, and it's with that in mind why I currently run a dual boot setup.
Also bear in mind that I am currently running an Nvidia GPU which play less nicely in Linux than AMD GPUs do.