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Cortana Can Now Replace Google Now On Android Devices
The Verge reports that Microsoft's Cortana can now be used (at least for beta testers) as a drop-in replacement for the Google Now assistant on Android devices; that means users can select launching Cortana as their default on-board assistant, and launch it by holding down the device's home key. However, notes the article, "The update version still doesn't include 'Hey Cortana' support, largely because of hardware limitations that prevent Cortana from always listening for the command."
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They got caught red handed.
exploiting a Linux kernel made for free by volunteers
Corporations like Red Hat, Suse, IBM, Texas Instruments, Linaro, Samsung, Oracle, and yep, even Microsoft, all contributed to Linux. In fact, corporate contributions now stand at about 80% of all submissions, according to the Linux Development Report. The notion that Linux is made exclusively by a bunch of unpaid volunteers is simply not true. It started out that way, but it has a lot of corporate support these days.
In case you're wondering, Google was the 8th most prolific Linux kernel corporate contributor in 2014.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Wrong. They got "caught" doing the same thing every other search engine does with toolbars (or now, what Google does with Chrome). They were simply monitoring what a user clicks on and adding a +1 to that site's weight in their crazy algorithm.
They weren't copying Google's results, they were copying users's clicks, just like everyone else. If a user clicked on a Google search result, the referrer and the page were fed to Bing, just like with any other user navigation.
Google ran a smear campaign and clicked on extremely specific results thousands of times from many IPs in their offices n order to poison the result set and show Bing was copying Google. They only had a handful of successes in altering Bing's search results, but the "BING COPIES GOOGLE" campaign was very successful, because people believe it to this day despite the fact that it was debunked several times.
I hate both companies, but let's at least be correct when talk about them being shitty.