Microsoft's Recall and improved Windows search start rolling out to Copilot+ AI PCs today

engadget.comPublished: 4/25/2025

Summary

Almost a year since Microsoft announced its controversial Recall feature, and after several delays, the company has finally started bringing it to Copilot+ AI PCs today. It'll be hard to trust Recall, or really any of Microsoft's AI-enabled Copilot features, because of its initial blunder. Less controversial is the improved Windows Search, which will let you find documents and images in your own words. Like all of the Copilot+ features, including Recall, the improved search runs locally using the neural processing units (NPU) in AI PCs. Even power users will like the improved Windows search, though, but that's only because the platform's search has always been notoriously awful.