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

Posted by msmash on 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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  1. Awesome! by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's cortana?

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    1. Re:Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

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

    2. Re:Awesome! by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 2, Insightful

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

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    3. Re:Awesome! by tripleevenfall · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Like everything MS does today, it's MS being third to market with a poor imitation of a product pioneered by someone else.

    4. Re:Awesome! by Mashiki · · Score: 1

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

      Zero? You can uninstall it with gpedit.

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    5. Re:Awesome! by Rob+Y. · · Score: 1

      Isn't that basically like everything MS has always done? It's just that before they missed out on mobile, all their poor imitations came 'for free' with Windows, and eventually caught up more or less to their original sources - and so came to be thought of as good, and even sometimes 'innovative', while the originals faded to obscurity in the face of trying to compete with a now 'built in' Windows feature.

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    6. Re:Awesome! by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 2

      It looks like you're writing a Clippy joke. Would you like help?

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    7. Re:Awesome! by Joce640k · · Score: 1

      That _is_ what Microsoft's 'partner' wants you to believe, yes.

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    8. Re:Awesome! by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      One of the first things you turn off after getting infected with Windows 10.

      Ponder the outcome of Siri and Clippy having a child after a very drunk night and both of them denying having anything to do with it.

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    9. Re:Awesome! by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Mainstream TV has reports and documentaries about the IoT now. If anything is an indicator of a trend being over, this is.

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    10. Re:Awesome! by Joce640k · · Score: 1

      If I go to google and type 'disable' the first result I see in the autocomplete box is 'disable cortana'

      The second result is 'disable cortana windows 10'.

      I suspect foul play by Google: People should be searching for that with Bing, right?

      (True fact: 'Disable cortana', 'download firefox' and 'download chrome' are the only searches I've ever done on Bing)

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    11. Re:Awesome! by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      What's cortana?

      The only hologram we ever masturbated to as kids.

    12. Re:Awesome! by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      There isn't a "for dummies" book out yet. Not a proper one, anyway.

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    13. Re:Awesome! by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      No need. IoT is already a product for dummies.

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  2. Tea by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Earl Grey. Hot.

    1. Re:Tea by Luthair · · Score: 2

      tea sprays all over your face

      You forgot to tell it you need it in a cup....

    2. Re:Tea by crtreece · · 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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    3. Re:Tea by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 1

      0 degrees C is hot by some definitions, and "earl grey" is not very precise about the molecular structure of the tea leaves to include.

      Frozen brown water of dubious origin pelts your face

    4. Re:Tea by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 1

      Someone's keurig got as clogged as his sphincter this morning.

  3. You Were Warned by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

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    1. Re:You Were Warned by ebvwfbw · · Score: 1

      Should be ICT - Internet Connected Technology or ICD - Internet Connected Devices.

      IoT was coined by an idiot. It's ...an Internet... of.....THINGS!.
      What a moron.

  4. personal assistance by Osgeld · · Score: 2

    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

    1. Re:personal assistance by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Depends. I certainly don't use it as a general personal assistant, but it is invaluable when driving a car or when you're unable to pickup your phone (e.g. cooking). Admittedly most of these interactions are quite simple but they are none the less useful.

  5. Uh . . . why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    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.

  6. Need to fix the multiple cortana instance issue! by tacroy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  7. I got a bad feeling about this. by stealth_finger · · Score: 1

    This can't possibly go wrong at all.

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  8. Re:Need to fix the multiple cortana instance issue by stealth_finger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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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  9. Irony by BrendaEM · · Score: 1

    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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  10. Re:Need to fix the multiple cortana instance issue by gtall · · Score: 2

    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.

  11. Re:Need to fix the multiple cortana instance issue by tacroy · · Score: 1

    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)

  12. Who's asking for this??? by sremick · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Who's asking for this??? by iampiti · · Score: 1

      Some home users also care about that, it's a pity Microsoft isn't willing to provide that option even in exchange for money.

    2. Re:Who's asking for this??? by ebvwfbw · · Score: 1

      Now now.... just because Cortana didn't respond to you the way you wanted doesn't mean she's a piece of crap.

      (Meant to be funny... Cortana is a POC, she rejected me too).

  13. Re:Need to fix the multiple cortana instance issue by peragrin · · Score: 1

    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

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  14. Hal9000 by XSportSeeker · · Score: 1

    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.

  15. Re:Need to fix the multiple cortana instance issue by antdude · · Score: 1

    Basically Paperclip from Office. ;P

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  16. I would like to thank the academy by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    40% Insightful
        40% Funny
        20% Flamebait

    This is what I want for an epitaph.

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