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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 K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 2

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

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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. 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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  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

  5. 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.

  6. 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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  7. 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.

  8. 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.