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To me, it's a really difficult name to accept upon first read. I was wondering how bad Windows had to be that Microsoft had to issue a recall, and then wonder what a software recall would actually look like.

Seems like a trip to a thesaurus might have been useful: Microsoft Evoke, Microsoft Conjure, Microsoft Hearken, Microsoft Summon. At least none of those has an immediate negative potential



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But is it Microsoft Recall Home Edition or Server Edition or Enterprise Edition?


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Are there really that many versions out there these days? I've been away from the windows world for 10+ years at this point. I do use the system occassinally but certainly not daily.


well they called their x86 to ARM translation layer Prism, just like the covert NSA program they were revealed to be part of by Snowden. I guess they don’t really care about naming…


Perhaps when increasing efforts in implementing spyware directly into your OS it would be good to dilute the namespace as to not find relevant information.

Either that or someone's giving a not so subtle hint.

I do think the program is probably far out of the consciousness of most people at this point (outside of older technical people), and the younger generation probably wouldn't know or care.




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