Microsoft To Bring Cortana To IoT Devices With Screens Next Year (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:05AM from the imminent-plans dept.

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.

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Tea by 110010001000 · 2016-12-13 02:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Earl Grey. Hot.
1. Re:Tea by crtreece · 2016-12-13 03:00 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
  
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Re:Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-13 02:12 · Score: 2, Funny

It is that feature in Windows 10 that you turn off and never use. It is clippy without the clip.