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A Quick Leak, As Microsoft Tests the Waters For Cortana On Android
An anonymous reader writes with the news from Venture Beat that a beta of Cortana for Android (long promised) has leaked into the wild via Finnish upload site SuomiMobiili, and from there to others, like APKMirror. From the article: We asked Microsoft where this leak may have come from. "In the spirit of the Windows Insider Program, we're testing the Cortana for Android beta with a limited number of users in the U.S. and China before releasing the beta publicly in the next few weeks," a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat.
It's ok summary writer person. You don't need to put in any effort to explain what Cortana is or why we might care.
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Uh... tits?
If it really was a leak Microsoft would call the FBI. This is just PR:
Leak n. a synonym for a public relations announcement, dressed to sound more exciting, but which by insulting the target audience's intelligence ends up irritating rather than fooling them
I want both Google and Microsoft to know every aspect of my life.
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Clearly it was on purpose.
How do you know it's shitty when you've never even used it?
Not once have I ever witnessed a person walking down the street and ask their phone a question.
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"We asked Microsoft where it may have come from."
Why not ask them where it DID come from?
Seriously the world has gotten stupid with this "may" word.
"Look out for luggage that may have shifted during the flight."
No, look out for luggage that DID shift during the flight.
"We wish you a fun day here or wherever your final destination may be."
No, we wish you a fun day here or wherever your final destination is.
"We asked Microsoft if anyone may want a worse-than-Siri on Android - one made by them"
There ya go.
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How old are you? 12? 13? You clearly have a rather limited memory of history with comments like:
Or should we forget that Android is actually (still) the newcomer to the modern world of smartphones? I seem to recall Blackberry, iOS and Windows Mobile/Phone/Mobile existing well before Android... clearly in your world Android has nothing to offer over the existing solutions!
Whatever ideas from another platform could ever influence ones own platform of choice, purity above all else must be enforced eh?>
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Phone OS's aren't speech recognition. That being said, Microsoft has had limited speech recognition for its desktop for quite awhile.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The company's research eventually ultimately led to the development of the Speech API, introduced in 1994
MS's V 5.1 voice recognition was shipped with XP (sp2). V8 came with Vista. Both were pretty good, and thye was client based, not cloud based.
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Lol. Shut up you fucking nerd cunt. I can smell your cheetohs breath from here.
I would just like to point out that this remark was posted late on a Friday night.
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On a nerd site no less. I think he's smelling his own cheetohs laced virginity.
Cortana sucks HARD just like bing -- because that's what the backend is. I'm no fan of google and even less of Android but bing is a really shitty search engine (I know because I keep trying it now and then and it's always a HUGE disappointment). I definitely don't want of that Cortana garbage in Win10, much like I don't want of bing. *Nobody* wants a bing-infested OS, and no one sane is going to willingly install that on their phone or tablet. Cortana will always be/remain a distant 3rd choice, much like Windows Phone (another POS).
These so-called "personal assistants" are nothing but toys. Nice for grins and giggles, and for entertainment at parties. Their inveterate stupidity, however, makes them all but useless for all but the most perfunctory undertakings. I can get results much faster by using a keyboard; in fact, when using those "personal assistants" most of my time is devoted to get them to understand what it is that I want. Since, like I said, they are devoid of any intelligence and common sense, that's a tall order. Maybe one day they will become as useful as the Star Trek computers or, even better, Data. As of today, they are as close to that as a sling is to a Saturn V rocket.
I have never done that, but it's mainly because I tend to drive more than walk, so I agree with parent in addressing GP's point. In the car, I ask questions of my phone all the time, and it's not even Siri; it's an Android device that a snagged for less than US$70 (HTC MyTouch). Often when my kid asks a question, like "Daddy, when did Pompeii get buried?", we seize the moment and find out right away rather than waiting to look it up when we get home. I firmly believe that this ability to get information on the spot (which you couldn't do if you had to type in the web query on the smartphone) accelerates the development and intelligence of society as a collective organism. In other words, it's good for everybody.
Disclaimer: I still don't know what Cortana is, and I still plan to get the Neo900 when it comes out.
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Therefore, Cortana is useless for me.
Take your ecosystem and shove it up where the sun don't shine, Microsoft.