[throw20240511]

and your take is quite naive.

Surveillance is absolutely the purpose, overt or not. The huge push for bossware/spyware for windows in 2020+ demonstrates that the less ethical portions of industry desperately want to spy on users workstations! Eventually there will be retention laws in certain regulated industries that mandate such technologies! Why enable this potential abuse?

Microsoft is trying to Sherlock the surveillance software industry with this!

I’d rather run North Koreas spyware Red Star Linux than Microsoft Windows.

[andybak]

This doesn't make sense. Screen recording is trivial. Why go to this much trouble? I don't buy the "Trojan Horse" argument in this case.

Occam's Razor, folks.

[disqard]

Screen recording is Data.

Being able to perform text-search queries on those is Information.

Having pie charts of "what % of the time did my minions spend on work-related tasks today?" is Knowledge.

What's lacking IMHO, is the Wisdom to ask "just because you can build this technology, should you?"

[Avshalom]

Recording is trivial.

monitoring at scale, in real time? getting a concise "what did bob do on his computer all day" those are hard.

[nehal3m]

> Screen recording is trivial

Well yeah, but doing it by default and saving the results in a searchable way for each and every one of your users is not.

[lassoiat]

I would suspect its much more ambitious than just peeking over your shoulder.

If you are going to try to make some new product to automate white color jobs a good way would be to sample what all the people are actually doing on windows every 5 seconds and see what you really have.

Peeking over your shoulder will be a side effect you get for free.

It is amusing to me because I was actually considering getting a windows laptop then they pull this shit. So standard for this evil company, I had just been lulled to sleep.