Welp, I knew Microsoft's CoPilot+ Recall was going to be a privacy disaster but I didn't expect it to turn into an enterprise computing catastrophe for Microsoft *quite* this fast!

But this can't be a one-off. Any large enterprise that has to comply with a regulated privacy environment—HIPAA in the USA, GDPR in the EU, banking/insurance/finance globally—must be considering a ban on Microsoft installations on laptop/desktop computers right now or be breaking the law.

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If you’re wondering how the Microsoft Recall scandal is going, I’ve just had a client tell me they’ve replaced their order for 10k Microsoft Surfaces with new MacBook Airs, at nearly twice the cost, and that we need to start the ongoing 6 month endpoint security project over.

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@cstross The silver lining is that Recall is only on Surfaces with "NPUs". It's not all Windows 11 or all Microsoft laptops (yet). But still as much backlash as possible is needed, the concept of Recall needs to be burned out before it spreads. Myself I bounced from considering buying a Surface to looking at ThinkPad Yoga.

@rivetgeek Intel just now announced next-gen CPUs with an NPU suitable for running this crap ("Lunar Lake"). And there are rumours about them pushing Recall onto Win11 machines that *don't* have an NPU, because Line Must Go Up or something.

I'm just glad, as an Apple user, that Microsoft jumped on this particular landmine first: the probability of Apple announcing anything like this functionality at WWDC next week must now be approximately zero.

@cstross @rivetgeek The CEO of the Boeing of microprocessors said in an internal video that going forward, the corporation will use AI tools in all design, coding, and validation.
@foolishowl @rivetgeek Waiting for the next Pentium FDIV bug to drop in 3 .. 2 .. 1 .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
Pentium FDIV bug - Wikipedia

@cstross @foolishowl @rivetgeek I wish I still had that cartoon of a tin of worms labelled "Insel Intide". I think it may be about to come in handy.