"Features that are the future of computing should be on by default and turning things off should not be part of any routine or default customer experience. If it can't be on then it isn't a platform feature."

the language they choose in their prepared statement is very indicative of the kind of culture that exists at Microsoft around product decisions:

we can make it easier for people to choose to enable Recall

remember, when Microsoft makes a feature "opt-in", it just means they're committing to repeatedly and relentlessly barraging all their users with new and exciting dark patterns until they inevitably accidentally turn it on.

the people who call the shots have a personal stake in making adoption number go up for their projects, and so emanate a bizarre reality-distortion aura everywhere they go, hoping that engineers and designers on adjacent features and products get too fatigued to push back on their insistence that it's inconceivable that someone might not want to use their widget, and that when someone says "no" they really mean "i want it, i just don't realize i want it yet."

IT'S DEAD

(effectively)

and all it took was widespread backlash by customers, who they definitely listen to being under active scrutiny by the US government for their "business first, security never" attitude's culpability in a significant nation-state cyberattack: https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers

Operating systems mirror the organizational structures that produce them and with this knowledge it's a dark miracle that Microsoft still exists