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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  • RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    A lot of unpopular “features” and behaviors used to have DISM, policy, or registry workarounds. And MS seems to love to kill those workarounds during later updates.

    If MS isn’t letting people uninstall it, there’s a reason for it, and I’d be willing to bet that users will one day find that it has been magically re-enabled by an update.

    • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      There will 100% be a policy to disable it. Microsoft may shit on their retail users, but there’s no way they’d force it on their enterprise clients. It’s a security and compliance nightmare and they know it.

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        Problem is disabling it will likely be locked behind the Enterprise edition.

        Kind of like the “Recommended” section in the Start menu. There is actually a way to disable that entirely…if you have an Enterprise license. There is no way to do it on any other version.

        I said it was back when they took Group Policy out of the Home edition: the long term goal is to make truly controlling Windows a premium feature that only corporations can afford, and you see that with the slow elimination of many of those settings.

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          So how can users band together to buy enterprise licenses from each other?

    • 0x0@programming.dev
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      If MS isn’t letting people uninstall it, there’s a reason for it,

      🤑 and control