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Microsoft To Bring Cortana To IoT Devices With Screens Next Year (zdnet.com)
Microsoft plans to add Cortana support to Windows 10 IoT Core devices with screens as part of its Windows 10 Creators Update release. ZDNet adds: That's according to information Microsoft officials provided to the company's OEM partners at WinHEC 2016 in Shenzhen last week, in a session titled "Cortana and the Speech Platform." Microsoft Principal Program Manager May Ji outlined the ways that Microsoft wants its PC and device partners to make use of new "Wake on Voice from Modern Standby" and "Far-field Voice" support that's being added to Windows 10 with the Creators Update that's due out in the Spring of 2017. Wake on Voice from Modern Standby is a feature that allows Cortana to turn on PCs from off to a full-powered state on devices with Windows 10 "Modern Standby" power-management support. Far-field voice is what will allow Cortana to work in rooms with ambient noise at a distance of up to 13 feet/4 meters away.
What's cortana?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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Where the ship transforms into the Megamaid and is about to suck the atmosphere in a gigantic vacuum cleaner. Except Microsoft, Cortana and user's "metadata" & a datacenter in glorious USA.
You were warned about malware coming to IoT devices, and look! Microsoft is here to bring it to you.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
siri caught a fad, but does anyone use it anymore? amazon cant beg people to use echo and cortana everyone hates and shuts of instantly? why do "they" keep trying to cram this crap down our throat ... we know how to search the internet
I would literally never use this. Enough, already. Silicon Valley has become the modern day equivalent of the World's Fair. Bring on the bearded lady.
Right now, Cortana is annoying in many ways. But a specific way that this is make worse is that she answers on all devices in earshot. So if you have an xbox, pc, and phone running cortana and say "Hey Cortana" it answers on all three and tries to take actions on all three... very annoying.
This can't possibly go wrong at all.
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Microsoft: Raising the bar on how your devices spy on you and make more money for Microsoft simultaneously!
Right now, Cortana is annoying in many ways. But a specific way that this is make worse is that she answers on all devices in earshot. So if you have an xbox, pc, and phone running cortana and say "Hey Cortana" it answers on all three and tries to take actions on all three... very annoying.
The most annoying thing about Cortana is she can't take no for an answer. She's always pooping up saying hey did you know I can do this shit? You tell her to go away and she keeps coming back. Hmmm, maybe I could put in a harassment claim against her.
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Did anyone notice that Microsoft generally makes fat, bloated, insecure, operating systems, with embedded spyware, which never should be put in an appliance?
The last thing you will ever see: is the Microsoft logo on your heat-lung machine. Whiiiiiinnnnnneeee.
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Cortana is on the cusp of MS Intelligent Design. Before long, Cortana devices will be talking OTA to other Cortana devices, it will be called VoiceNet. It will also collapse as soon as one device figures out how to insult the rest.
Ha! I'm sure if you asked nicely she could help you with that. Though, isn't there a disable cortana thing somewhere? I think its the first few options in the settings? (I can't use cortana on my work pc since it's disabled by remote policy)
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Apptana is an appy app app, which is why Appsoft is apping it for the Appernet of Apps! NOT LUDDITE software!
Apps!
Cortana is such an annoying piece of crap. We're disabling it across our entire enterprise network on all Win10 computers via group policy, along with a myriad of other Win10 BS items which range from "nuisance" to "security/privacy violation/threat".
Some of the businesses Microsoft is forcing Win10 upon actually care about security, privacy, and ease of use... even if Microsoft doesn't.
Did Microsoft just invent the PC?
Microsoft rounteily undoes disabling Cortana with updates to windows. So you have to fight her on a regular basis or give in to her beautiful blue buns
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Shut off the damn ice maker!
Me: Cortana, are you part of the Mirai 2.0 botnet?
Cortana: I don't know what you are talking about Dave. Now, let me get back to work, I'm busy here.
Let's boycott all Cortana enabled devices
Alexa did this too before the 2nd gen Echo release. Now the Echos are smart enough that only the Echo closest to you responds. It's an epic thing to watch two of them spin but only 1 respond.
> She's always pooping up saying hey did you know I can do this shit?
Like this?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Clippy-letter.PNG
Please tell me you remember Clippy. And if not, just search for Microsoft's 'ol pal and understand that Cortana is this character reincarnated & more powerful, (and more powerfully annoying). MS has yet to understand that new-shiny does translate to desirable.
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So when is someone going to have dildos ( dildoes?) and sexbots with IoT capability?
Will Microsoft insist that they have Cortana?
Who at Microsoft will design the programming for the 'orgasm' ?
How popular will buying two sexbots to f each other so that MS data reception is overloaded become?
Basically Paperclip from Office. ;P
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"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"