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.

Comments

Awesome!

[Hognoxious]

What's cortana?

Re:Awesome!

[Big Hairy Ian]

How much energy is it going to burn eavesdropping on me whilst it's in standby mode?

You Were Warned

[drinkypoo]

You were warned about malware coming to IoT devices, and look! Microsoft is here to bring it to you.

Re:Need to fix the multiple cortana instance issue

[stealth_finger]

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.