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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.

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  1. MS is kind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    We're lucky to have such generous overlords that allow us to enable the spyware early!

  2. Re:Excuse me....?? by bloodhawk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:Excuse me....?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    "Consumers"

    Are these the ppl. that used to be called customers?

    Just wondering...

  4. Re:Am I missing something? by bloodhawk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is actually getting pretty bad here now. Slashdot has always been fairly anti MS, but usually with good reason and people that had some basic skills in explaining why. the amount of crap posts you see nowadays is really a little unfathomable. I personally associate it with the next generation of users that don't seem to have any social skills to argue their case beyond spewing hate.

  5. Re:Excuse me....?? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why would someone *want* to knowingly enable this?

    Cortana is spy-ware, and it takes considerable effort to *disable* it???

    What am I missing???

    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 *

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    You are welcome on my lawn.