dumb fucking corporations will still line their pockets with money.

I don't think this will bury MS because they can easily market this to enterprise clients ( if they haven't already ). Recall is a particularly useful tool for any employer that wants to keep track of everything employees do, especially in an age of WFH. They probably figured they can take the PR hit from users concerned about privacy and move on unaffected.

Do people outside of tech care?

The struggle is real for M$ - recall is a Security Incident waiting to happen.

Microsoft has already taken a step back: Microsoft implements drastic changes to Recall after criticism

• Recall needs to be enabled during installation
• Windows Hello is needed so that only the users can view it's own screenshots
• Recall database will be encrypted

Microsoft lost my trust a long time ago. For the last 10-15 years, my only relationship with them is, "how much sh*t am I willing to put up with before I switch to something else?"

And CoPilot/Recall was the breaking point.

Linux!: Had set It up years ago when it was a slog. Came back recently after Windows did this— and it was so much easier.

Work? Yes. The comfort of knowing I’ve put off for one more day the tech ubergods carving my life open? Also yes.