nahhh...
https://www.techspot.com/news/103087-microsoft-new-ai-powered-recall-feature-log-everything.html
... the only "reason" they are "forced" to do this, is because they are too incompetent to design + create a working simple search feature 😏🫣
Proof: "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... "