To be clear this is an option enabled by the host. It most likely won’t be used for normal meetings.
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This is so you can then use their super cool and completely accurate AI summary tool that will be coming soon.
"The meeting was about polishing yaks. The conclusion was green is important fudge."
Gonna be difficult to block screen capture when I have a phone in my hand with a camera that can be record what I see.
Don't be so bold. Microsoft is investing in military AI applications. So don't be surprised when your computer slaps that camera right out of your hands and punches you in the face. /j (or not, idk, things are looking bad)
There are some autonomous cars with lidar out there where the lidar is so powerful it can wreck a camera close up, but is still safe for eyes.
Switch up FaceID to use a more powerful laser which will wreck the phones camera, and start making webcams for non macs that are required to have this in them for Teams to work.
So you're saying that I can just start an infinite empty meeting in order to block the AI Recall thing from recording my screen?
Oh, no, AI Recall has "special privileges" - just you lusers don't.
More and more, I notice that Microsoft's ubiquity in our society is to reinforce the idea that we need to take abuse and reward our abusers in order to be successful.
now that all the performance, reliability, and usability issues are solved in Teams, it's great to see all that energy going into this useful feature that is surely not possible to circumvent in any way.
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There will be ways to capture it anyway. Probably specific software designed for GPU capture, since that's how these apps "prevent" capturing, using GPU trickery.
Simplest way is a Windows VM and screen capture in the OS running the VM. Obviously next step for Microsoft is to detect and block Windows VMs, good luck to them with that.
The announcement from MS and the linked article both also mention this, though they recommend the real analogue hole: a separate camera pointed at the screen.
There are going to be fifty different bypasses up on github by the end of the week. This makes me want to join a corpo and record their precious meetings
Why would one use an intentionally impaired tool?
Because the company one works at is entangled in Microsoft products and totally dependend on it.
We dont make the decision as to what suite to use?
Literally no one but our CFO ad shareholders like microsoft.
I hate stuff like this because screen grabs during meetings or lectures is my favorite way to take notes.
Nooooo. If you do that, you won't be paying for Teams Premium which has built in support for screen recording. Think of the revenue lost 😭😭
Edit: I should add /s incase people think I'm a Microsoft shill
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Run teams in a VM and take a screen shot from the host OS.
Or just use the smartphone camera that almost everyone is going to have anyhow...
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they should also blank the screen if the user has recall enabled
Are you stupid? Next week they will sell an add on that let's you recall the whole meeting. You need to start thinking outside the box if you're gonna make it in scummy corporate sales.
The important bit:
Those joining from unsupported platforms will be automatically placed in audio-only mode to protect shared content.
And I presume everything except Windows 11 Teams will be considered “unsupported”.
So now my clients will have a harder time engaging with my product. Great.
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I don't know to what extent they'll go, but yes, this and the Advanced Chat Privacy in WhatsApp are just user locking moves.
I used to be able to join teams meetings in the browser version of teams from my Linux machine. I did my last job interview this way
This still works, it is my only method of interaction with Teams
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i trust signing in through the browser on linux will be supported since that's the official way to use teams on linux
except on firefox of course, because fuck you for even trying to protect a little bit of your privacy
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Microsoft Teams will soon encourage users to point their phones at their screens from off camera during meetings
Yeah seriously; this won't even stop normies. Everybody knows how to take a picture with their phone. Why bother?
Hell a lot of people would probably default to using a phone because they don't know how print screen works.
Don’t worry, Recall will record everything done on the Windows machine.
i mean if someone really wanted to commit espionage they'd just take a photo of the screen with their camera.
I suspect running teams on Windows in Parallels on a Mac would still let me use the Mac’s screen record feature.
My company is transitioning to teams. Most of our engineering is on Linux.
Can Microsoft please hurry up and break teams so we can't transition?
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So many commenters here and at the article get a hard on to bash MS for anything.
MS won’t make this a requirement, nor will they make using the Teams app a requirement. This isnt some backhanded way to get people to switch from Linux to windows.
This is MS responding to an enterprise feature request.
The reflexive hate for M$ is not irrational fan-boys bashing a rival, but bitterness over prolonged and profound annoyance, suffering, and downright abuse experienced through using the products produced by that dogshit company.
I switched because I wanted software that didn't hate me and my values.
What's irrational is the Stockholm-syndrome Windows user who thinks it's normal and right to run software that spies, advertises, and generally treats users like a resource to be exploited.
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Pointless.
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