I thought that maybe Microsoft thought through the security implications here, but it's clear that either they did and decided it didn't matter, or didn't at all. I can't decide which is worse, but I will not be allowing any Copilot+ PCs in my enterprise either way.
I’m beginning to wonder how much of this “boneheaded ideals being pushed out halfbaked that completely jeopardize the brand reputation of every tech corporation” phenomenon has to do with all of those layoffs from last year.
The scary thing is though, even if you can control this locally, any interactions you have with external parties that have this feature enabled will be a security and privacy threat to you since their Windows11 will screenshot email or video calls involving you.
Win 11 is not under serious consideration at all in our enterprise. Most orgs will be running other software (endpoint protection, etc.) that will simply cripple/break these new features as they arise. Unfortunately, Linux is also not under serious consideration, and MS knows it.
It is particularly wild in the face of the fact that Azure has had at least one SERIOUS security breach in recent memory - is MS security asleep at the wheel or are they being actively ignored on things like this? I suspect it's probably the latter but that kind of makes it worse!
I want to roll back to Windows 7, which was the last time I felt the OS was stable and good, but I don’t think any programs will still work with it. (Ideally I’d love to go back to WinXP) Their ‘one OS for all devices’ idea was so bad, but this is such a catastrophic misread of what consumers want.