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How To Enable Cortana On the Xbox One Experience Preview (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: Part of Microsoft's strategy to unite different devices to a single ecosystem means offering the same services and features across the board. One of those features is Cortana, Microsoft's digital assistant, which is available on Windows 10. It will also be available for the Xbox One, though not until sometime next year, at least officially. Don't feel like waiting? You might not have to. Here's a quick and dirty guide on how to unlock Cortana on the Xbox One, provided you're running the latest Xbox One Experience Preview.
We're lucky to have such generous overlords that allow us to enable the spyware early!
how about linking to the original poster of how to do it, or the youtube video or any one of a number of good sites instead of shitty hothardware coming late trying to cash in on clicks by reposting what everyone else has done.
There are four comments so far claiming Cortana is spyware but none of them offer any evidence of this. Is this just typical Slashdot irrational MS hatred, or am I missing something?
I just pooped your party.
most of the world don't give a shit about the MS telemetry (wrongly or rightly), they care about functionality. What you are missing is you can't see past your own concerns to look at what consumers actually care about.
"Consumers"
Are these the ppl. that used to be called customers?
Just wondering...
The fact you can't work that out for yourself says an aweful lot about you. perhaps you should try going to school.
Because Cortana never forgets . . .
geez if you don't understand basic words then at least learn to google. customers and consumers can be the same or a consumer may actually not be a customer. Not sure what sader, that you posted that or that you spent the time posting it rather than spend 5 seconds doing a google search.
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yes, So why all the bitching about it? voice search and assistance is extremely useful in a device that generally has no keyboard attached, what is so fucking hard to understand about that?
what consumers actually care about.
"Give me convenience or give me death!"
It's more like "give me convenience or your competitor will"
Siri. Cortana. Echo. S-voice. Google voice. etc.
Pretty sure that at this point, it's either get with it, or be left behind. And yes, "behind" is the right word. Services will begin to be delivered by default this way, count on it — if you don't have access, you won't have the services, either.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Cortana is spy-ware, and it takes considerable effort to *disable* it???
What am I missing???
You are missing the fact that every search you perform is already being sent to the search provider. Doing it via voice is a huge convenience in a mobile world, and yes, people WANT convenience.
You might not, but you are in a 0.01% niche at best. You don't matter.
exactly. xbox already catalogs any USB media you insert and sends back this catalog record to HQ when you allow the xbox online. bastards.
"Consumers"
Are these the ppl. that used to be called customers?
Just wondering...
No, that is simply your inability to understand the English language. A consumer is not necessarily the customer and a customer is not necessarily a consumer (though the 2 frequently overlap), in this case it is a consumer targeted feature, not customer targeted. with the xbox an example of this is the customer is frequently the parents while the consumer is the children that use the xbox.
What better way to get otherwise tech-savvy people to run spyware on their systems than by making them feel that by using this "leaked" method to enable Cortana on their systems they are cool doing something that's not exactly sanctioned by MS?
"Hey look, I've enabled Cortana on my XBone Experience Live system without Microsoft's persmission!"
Microsoft: * laughter *
You are welcome on my lawn.
What's even sadder is that you/we have come to accept (to the point that one now risks being insulted for pointing it out) that 'customer' and 'consumer' have become interchangeable. They didn't used to be, but I suppose such is the morphology of language.
It's hilarious that you berated him on his language skills, but completely missed the point he was trying to make. Do you have Aspergers?
Why would someone *want* to knowingly enable this?
Because it provides useful features. It allows me to add stuff to my calendar, read me my mail, tell me the weather, make phone calls, etc.
I see a future where our houses are setup with remote mics and speakers so we can talk to Siri/Cortana/Alexa anywhere in our homes.
Cortana is spy-ware
No it isn't, stop spreading FUD...
please explain the point he tried to make. The OP used the absolutely correct term of consumer. He then decided to incorrectly talk about customers. So NO they are not the people we used to call customers, They are and have always been called consumers. Customers are a completely different definition both now and in the past. Yes some people nowadays have trouble understanding this concept and it appears the AC replying was one of them.
Because it provides useful features.
No, because you're the average imbecile. That's why you like being spied on.
Because it provides useful features.
No, because you're the average imbecile. That's why you like being spied on.
What the fuck is up with all these moron troll posts? is it one guy or are their a heaps of morons that don't understand the difference between telemetry and spying? google, apple, Sony, MS all collect telemetry. Whats more if you are on fucking xbox or playstation everything you do is already well and truly recorded. learn to communicate moron or just better still fuck off. Most of us really don't give a shit that telemetry or server side processing happens, if they at sometime in the future decide to instead use that for spying I still don't give a shit, if they want to know I read the news each evening or search for latest game reviews then they are welcome to it.
if they at sometime in the future decide to instead use that for spying I still don't give a shit
Which clearly proves that you're the average imbecile.
Plus, telemetry is not the only windows 10's privacy hole, Cortana is much worse.
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I think it's aspergers. Autism maybe? Either way he's thinks he's better than you. Lennart? Is that you?
Why do you keep switching from your registered account to AC? You use cortana and then you even think you're intelligent enough to fool anyone?!
How many microsoft PRs have voted up this comment and downvoted the parent? Same story one month ago when all the Win10 privacy issues came out: the vast majority of posts were anti-MS, but for some strange reason the very few pro-MS ones were upvoted, which clearly goes against statistics.
No, those terms are not inter-changeable.
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what consumers actually care about.
"Give me convenience or give me death!"
Would you settle for convenience and death?
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
Oh, I see... It's voice activated spyware. That makes it special.
I see a future where our houses are setup with remote mics and speakers so we can talk to Siri/Cortana/Alexa anywhere in our homes.
Well, no. Your home, fine. My home, no. On the other hand, when I can get a Free and open source natural language recognition system which I control and for which I write the rules (including firewall rules) then I might consider doing something like that. Probably, though, I'll want to just wear the microphone, perhaps with a Trek-like combadge. That does raise problems when trying to use the computer while naked, but one could install a button/switch to enable full-room audio. I'm not particularly thrilled about all the intelligent devices that I already own which contain microphones which I cannot disable. Damned if I'll add more to my house of my own accord.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Well, no. Your home, fine. My home, no.
And that's ok, I would never suggest you have to do that, it should be optional.
On the other hand, when I can get a Free and open source natural language recognition system which I control and for which I write the rules (including firewall rules) then I might consider doing something like that.
I'm ok with that as well. Choice, it's a good thing.
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That being said, don't be shocked if the outside public world ends up with microphones and speakers at some point all linked to central servers. Maybe the various servers will all use the same public mic system, but answer to their own names.
So you can say "hey Siri", and she'll respond, you could have someone else say, "hey Alexa", and she'll respond, and so on.
I see a future where our houses are setup with remote mics and speakers so we can talk to Siri/Cortana/Alexa anywhere in our homes.
Well, no. Your home, fine. My home, no. On the other hand, when I can get a Free and open source natural language recognition system which I control and for which I write the rules (including firewall rules) then I might consider doing something like that. Probably, though, I'll want to just wear the microphone, perhaps with a Trek-like combadge. That does raise problems when trying to use the computer while naked, but one could install a button/switch to enable full-room audio. I'm not particularly thrilled about all the intelligent devices that I already own which contain microphones which I cannot disable. Damned if I'll add more to my house of my own accord.
And then just pray that you don't interact with an Apple, Microsoft or any number of other products that do the same thing. It's nice to hope that you can stay anonymous, but it's becoming a fulltime job with the ultimate choice being whether to use something that's convenient or not. Even then, what to prevent something like Goggle glass to record you being somewhere? That's the reality of today and until there are laws passed to protect you, you're screwed.
Last week's European Justice Court's ruling showed us that in some civilized countries your dreams are illegal. And I wouldn't be surprised if the same court ruled that Win10 has to be banned in the EU as soon as there will be the first lawsuit.
Obviously mentally handicapped people like you might wish a "public mic system", but that doesn't mean it will be allowed to happen.