Launching for the upcoming Copilot+ PCs powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips, Recall is essentially an all-seeing eye that keeps tabs on everything you do on.
The big picture: Desktop users will swear they’ve been in situations where they had to desperately search through emails, browser histories, and file folders trying to find that one thing they vaguely remember seeing or working on a few days prior. It’s frustrating, but Microsoft may have cracked this problem with a new feature called Recall.
Launching for the upcoming Copilot+ PCs powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips, Recall is essentially an all-seeing eye that keeps tabs on everything you do on your computer. It then presents a scrollable timeline you can search through, using AI. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella described the feature as an upgrade over traditional keyword search, dubbing it was “semantic search over all your history.”
“It’s not just about any document. We can recreate moments from the past,” he said. He also provided a glimpse into what happens behind the scenes when the feature’s turned on. Essentially, Windows takes screenshots of your screen constantly.
