“We strive to provide a safe and secure experience with Recall. To ensure we make these important updates happen, we're taking extra time to refine the experience before we preview it with Windows Insiders,” said Microsoft Windows Insider Senior Program Manager Brandon LeBlanc in a statement to The Verge.
LeBlanc did not provide any additional details about the latest recall delay, nor did he make any new announcements about other security measures Microsoft is taking with this feature. The company's September blog post detailed how data was protected using Windows Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) features and Windows Hello authentication, and reiterated that Recall will be opt-in by default and that it will be completely removable for Windows users who are not. I'm not interested in using it.
When it actually rolls out, Recall will still require a Copilot+ PC, which will get some AI-related features not available on typical Windows 11 PCs. To meet Copilot+ requirements, PCs must have at least 16 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage, plus a neural processing unit (NPU) that can perform at least 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS). Users must also enroll their PC in the Windows Insider program; we have no idea when non-Windows Insider PCs will get Recall, but at this point it seems likely it won't be until sometime in 2025.
