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Microsoft Voice Command Almost Here
PDA User writes "The new Microsoft Voice Command for Pocket PC isn't supposed to be out until the next Comdex, but someone inside the company posted details to Handango and Geekzone posted a preview.
The application notifies users of appointments, and answer simple English questions. It does not have "Do you want fries with that?" in the vocabulary though."
And is this not the FP again? Wow. Two within the month. I am on a role.
More like Celda!!!1111
1st voice command!
And if it isn't - it certainly sounds like one.
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The Microsoft Wailing Song
What's left for me to see
In my ship I sailed so far
What can the answer be
Don't know what the questions are.
And after all I've done
Still I cannot feel the sun
Tell me save me
In the end our lost souls must repent.
I must know it is for certain
Can it be the final curtain
As long as the wind will blow
I'll be searching high and low.
Who knows what's really true
They say the end is so near
Why are we all so cruel
We just fill ourselves with fear.
And heaven and hell will turn
All that we love shall burn
Hear me trust me
In the end our lost sould must repent.
I must know it is for certain
Can it be the final curtain
As long as the wind will blow
I'll be searching high and low
Final curtain
Final curtain
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pressed to Microsoft lips
Microsoft drink up
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I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Microsoft fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Microsoft box (a PIII 800 w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Microsoft box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Emacs Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Microsoft machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Microsoft box that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the Microsoft machines faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 800 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Microsoft is a "superior" machine.
Microsoft addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Microsoft over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
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It is common knowledge that Microsoft is dying. Almost everyone knows that ever hapless Microsoft is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which Microsoft is the worst off of an admittedly suffering Microsoft community. The numbers continue to decline for Microsoft but Microsoft may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The erosion of user base for Microsoft continues in a head spinning downward spiral.
OpenMicrosoft leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenMicrosoft. How many users of Microsoft are there? Let's see. The number of OpenMicrosoft versus NetMicrosoft posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetMicrosoft users. Microsoft/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetMicrosoft posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Microsoft/OS. A recent article put Microsoft at about 80 percent of the Microsoft market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Microsoft users. This is consistent with the number of Microsoft Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Microsoft went out of business and was taken over by MicrosoftI who sell another troubled OS. Now MicrosoftI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major marketing surveys show that Microsoft has steadily declined in market shar
Hi, Bob. Hey look! I'm talking to you though my new computer... Yeah, I got a question about our new hard golf balls. Tiger Woods call and said he hit a drive and the logos on them faded. Maybe we should go to a different format for how we print them.