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Microsoft Teams will soon encourage users to point their phones at their screens from off camera during meetings

Don’t worry, Recall will record everything done on the Windows machine.

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”.

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?

I hate stuff like this because screen grabs during meetings or lectures is my favorite way to take notes.

Pointless.

I'll have to use the camera phone again then.

i mean if someone really wanted to commit espionage they'd just take a photo of the screen with their camera.

Rules for thee not mee

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.

/s

they should also blank the screen if the user has recall enabled

Run teams in a VM and take a screen shot from the host OS.

This is so you can then use their super cool and completely accurate AI summary tool that will be coming soon.

This is why they require a TPM, your motherboard will be DRM against you owning the operating system and it will only run signed software.

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.

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.

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?

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

To be clear this is an option enabled by the host. It most likely won’t be used for normal meetings.

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.

"This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android)."

What about Teams browser?

OBS Studio has been able to record Teams meetings so far, on Linux.

So does running teams in a windows vm prevent me to take a screenshot on the Linux host? I can't imagine it would.

It's okay people, even if the feature in itself is not awful, MS Teams still is awful. We can still bash on MS to relieve past Windows trauma.