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Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency (www.youtube.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

We got dogfed (dogfooded?) the preview builds.

At some point, one preview was considered 'good enough' that basically everyone at MSFT was forced to switch over to it.

Backlash from MSFTs own employees who were forced to use the pre Windows 7 mode version is a huge reason why they 'sorted it out'.

EDIT: If you don't know... and maybe they don't still do this, but I seriously doubt it, MSFT does what they call dogfooding. Most new software versions are released internally to MSFT employees before it goes public, so that they can functionally beta test everything.

Usually it just causes some work loss in minor ways, but with certain widely used or critical software, it can blow up entire projects and workflows for a while.