Windows Recall could solve my biggest problem in tech
Microsoft may have finally solved my biggest problem working with multiple sources of information: information fragmentation. As in, where was I told this crucialbit of information?
Microsoft’s Recall is arguably the showcase feature of Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs. It’s essentially a search engine for your PC, digging out the details of whatever you’re looking for.
Yes, you might think this sounds familiar. File Explorer has a search function. So does Windows. Microsoft even launched a very similar concept several years ago: Timeline, which attempted to “go back in time” and review what web page, for example, you looked at, three weeks ago.
But Microsoft sources say there’s something different this time around. Timeline, which was eventually dropped by Microsoft, used APIs that would send information back and forth between specific Microsoft apps. Recall taps the compositor within Windows and uses that instead. Put simply: If you’ve seen it, so has Recall — it takes periodic screenshots of your desktop every few seconds, which it uses to hunt down details.