Windows location service is one of those features that spend most of their time quietly humming in the background—mapping points, ensuring your Cortana answers don’t include recommendations for Korean barbecue 3,000 miles away, and helping you find your laptop when it develops a case of...
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In a move sparking both privacy chatter and performance debates, Microsoft has decided to discontinue storing your location data locally on Windows 11. This change—recently announced in Microsoft's Deprecated features document—is sending ripples through Windows communities and tech forums alike...