Thinking about Microsoft Recall now. I realized its true purpose today. There was some incompetence there, of course, but I believe Microsoft expected some pushback and that this seemingly-botched release was a “foaming the runway” event.

Recall’s true raison d’être is to be used for worker surveillance. It was never intended for home use. Not really. The predictable pushback was just to make it visible to MBA pro-surveillance types. Now it is; goal achieved. Recall will be an absolute boon for the type of sociopaths who desire such things. And it will of course harm workers greatly.

Now I understand why what occurred happened. Otherwise, it just made no sense. Expect Recall to be baked into Enterprise versions of Windows, and your boss spying on your in an incredibly intrusive way soon enough.