I bet they turn this into even more AI
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2026
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Stop using Windows any, it's a US company that's too large.
I mean by that logic, stop using Steam. It's (marginally) possible for a company to get big, and not do terrible things. Just keep an eye on them and don't become fully reliant on them.
Yeah, i'm never going back to that dumpster fire OS.
"Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift" For Now.
Give them 6-8 months, they'll shove it back in quietly in a way you can't see it happening as easily.
Absolutely.
This just means "We pushed our crap too fast and people noticed, so we're letting things cool off slightly to quiet down the critics, and next time we'll boil the frog more slowly."
I think you've just neatly summarized, uh ...
... The world (such as we've incentivized it, anyway).
Sadly, yes.
What it comes down to is that any product or service with a profit incentive will inevitably betray you, no matter how good or how well-intentioned it started out.
Our only saviour is open source, self hosting, and federation.
It's why ownership rather than rental is the model we should all individually be pursuing.
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Yeah they will recall their plan soon enough
ba-da-tisss
love it
According to people familiar with Microsoft’s plans
Might as well get your information from psychedelic mushrooms.
I am kinda glad they went to shit so quickly. If it were slow, I probably would never have gone fully Linux. Now, I have all 5 of my machines free of corporate spyware. I am having fun again configuring and learning. Thanks microslop! I needed the push.
Which distro has been working well for you? So for I have Mint and Bazzite on my list to try. Also do you have any pointers?
I use Mint on my laptops and I know it is not for everyone, but I started with Debian stable on my gaming desktop with an ARC B580 and upgraded the kernel, installed drivers, and added packages one at a time so I could see the difference. Debian stable on my server for many years, so I have some experience.
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Fedora workstation can be a real nice no trouble install.
Personally love to add pop-shell extension to GNOME - if you use big monitors, it's an awesome autotiler.
Good info as I have a huge monitor and has been part of my worry from a compatibility standpoint.
I'm using mint and loving the experience so far. My kids find it easy to use and even my wife, who was a bit worried having to switch to a new environment, came to realise that it works just as well if not better then windows.
Badass, appreciate the info!
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Too late. I've already left. Never again.
Edit: wanted to reply.
Forever will be microslop. Scaling back doesn't mean removing. It's still essentially malware.
This is not last time when we said we'd roll back Recall and then put it back in anyway. This time we'll roll back Recall (and, eventually, put it back in but please don't leave our platform!)
Recall will just get different name
yeah nah. They're claiming a lot of shit. Whether or not it gets removed is another matter.
I fully expect their bullshit to stay everywhere, they're just gonna get quieter about it
Enjoying Bazzite.
According to the headline, all they're saying is, "we will bother you less (the degree of which, we aren't clear), and we'll maybe think about what to do with recall."
And we will start pushing it again in six months time when people have forgot about now.
Prolific cannibal promises to review their choice in seasonings to be more tactful as they continue to feast on PC users' privacy, freedom and last scraps of digital dignity on a global scale.
I am sure that this empty promise of change has everything to do with their user empathy and absolutely nothing to do with their recent financial results which indicated how hollow their AI-slop-bullshit revenue growth was last quarter.