>Agent workspace is a separate, contained Windows session made just for AI agents, where they get their own account, desktop, and permissions so they can click, type, open apps, and work on your files in the background while you keep using your normal desktop. Instead of letting an agent act directly as you, Windows spins up this extra workspace, gives it limited access (like specific folders such as Documents or Desktop), and keeps its actions isolated and auditable. Each agent can have its own workspace and access rules, so what one agent can see or do doesn’t automatically apply to others, and you stay in control of what they’re allowed to touch.

The headline is very clickbaity. This is not quite the privacy destroying anti feature CPU eater. It's more like a feature some people may enjoy and others an annoying nuisance that they have to remember to disable. It's likely going to be so resource heavy and a privacy concern that i can't imagine they would ever enable it by default.

It is only a matter of time before recall is shipped quietly in an update

If they realize the value of "sandboxing" something so insecure they should also be making it really easy for you to do the same with any app, or set of apps...

I disagree that the headline is clickbaity. It's true. The agents run in the background and have access to your personal data.

I don't care how "auditable" an agent is, I don't want my personal information slurped up by AI and shipped out to microsoft's servers. Full stop.

This is just another spying data exfiltration but with a hype con built into it.

Just because I can see what it read and shipped off, doesn't mean I can undo that or claw it back.