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Microsoft is Bringing Cortana To Android Lock Screen (mspoweruser.com)
Microsoft is testing out a new way to access Cortana, its digital assistant, from the Android lock screen, with just a swipe. It's a new feature that's clearly designed to replace Google's own quick access, and to convince Android users to switch to Cortana. According to MSPowerUser, Cortana on the lock screen doesn't replace existing lock screens, so you can still use a custom one or the default experience that ships with your Android device. Cortana is activated simply by swiping left or right on the floating logo. Microsoft is currently testing this new feature, and any Android users can opt-in to trial the new beta features over at the Google Play Store.
The question is does anyone actually want it.
Android users can opt-in to trial the new beta features over at the Google Play Store
I'd like to see Apple do something close to this.
I don't want Clippy 2.0 on my PC and I certainly don't want it on my phone. Very few people actually want Cortana, MS, why do you keep trying to push failing ideas and never know when to give up? You keep digging a deeper financial hole hoping your failed gamble pays off. See Windows Phones.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
because customers see the digital assistant on the phone as a component of the larger product/ecosystem and associate it closely to the brand, its hard to imagine users changing it. not to mention the fact that Microsofts offering is arriving 3 years too late after digital assistants have already been established on both android and iphone platforms for at least five years now.
siri is apple, ok google is google, and cortana is the bitch that haunts Windows 10.
Good people go to bed earlier.
The part that explains why the hell I'd want that.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
My understanding is that Microsoft apps on Android are very much better than Microsoft apps on Windows phone.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
I have Cortana on my Android (it's on the Play Store), I can say that it is legit. I also have Alexa which is not, at least currently or as implemented, not terribly useful. I of course have Alexa on my Kindle Fire 8, it's mostly just good for handling media (actually really good) and regurgitating internet search results. So anyway, I am not going to sit here and review Cortana on Android. Take a few seconds to download it and give it a spin.
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Microsoft has been pretty public about their dropping support for Windows Phone.
They may come with a new phone- but for now they are pretty much in the, "Okay, that didn't work" mode. It's not a secret.
I have been using Windows Phone for a long time. I actually like it. Though now it seems like every month another feature dies on my phone. I just tell people, "My phone is full-on retarded."
They've also been very public about their plan to follow the customers to where they are- which is NOT on Windows Phone. Essentially my phone gets about zero support now. It's a shame, but not the end of the world.
No reason to lie.
True in some cases. Also, some MS apps are best experienced on iOS where the Adroid and MS mobile versions aren't as good.
It just depends on the team making the app.
But MS's new(ish) strategy is to "be where our customers are"
I like the fact that with the relative openness of Android, they are able to allow their customers to supplant Google's own native services if they wish to. It's greater choice for the consumer in the end.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
I find all of these voice command software packages to be a complete waste of time. Almost everything that I can do by voice I can do faster and easier with just my hands on the screen.
But then again I don't keep my face stuck in my smart phone all day. Mobile games are a garbage, mobile media is a joke, and there's thing productivity wise that you can do one a phone that you can do faster and better on a real computer.
I see you're using an Android phone. Can I help?
Cortana is better than Google at answering questions. Unfortunately, unless the question is very simple, she dumps you into a Bing search, which is even less helpful than Now always dumping you into a Google search. If you're interacting via voice, you shouldn't have to look at your phone or press links. At least in Google, you can often read the answer (after you stop driving/doing whatever it was that prevented you from typing in the first place, of course); with Bing, you end up copying the search text so you can paste it into Chrome to get useful links to answers.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
And it has no apps. I use several authenticators, none of which are available on Windows Phone. MS Phone is a nice phone, but a shitty pocket computer.
Good-bye
I hear you. I would say that, having used iOS, Android and MS Mobile (in many forms starting with CE) they all have innovative ideas, strengths and weaknesses.
I think that MS with their mobile 8 and 10 offerings offer some really innovative things (live tiles, intuitive and searchable settings, well indexed app menu, unified contacts, ability to have wifi and BT automatically turn back on after a period of time after turning it off manually, wifi sense to automatically log on to public hot spots, seamless integration with social media without having to install any apps)... but... they were too late to the party. iOS and Android were already entrenched.
Both Android and iOS have copied some of those features and they continue to copy from each other as well. Good ideas are good ideas.
In my mind, more competition is good for consumers. More ideas are percolated up which eventually helps all platforms.
I am hoping that MS doesn't give up on mobile. I don't think they will.
BTW, I don't think you have been paying attention:
I can't think of a single feather that matters LESS than SMS contacts and Bluetooth capability.
Apple and others are banking on Bluetooth for the future of the audio interface.
Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and others are competing aggressively to become your default SMS provider. Obviously they think this is something that matters a great deal.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
That gives yet another opportunity to publish a scathing review of Microsoft's trash. As usual, consider yourself middle-fingered, Microsoft.
How on earth would Microsoft "thoroughly integrate" something so that "you can't uninstall or or disable it" on a platform owned and controlled by Google. You know, their competitor? Feel free to continue using your phone of choice but at least have a basic understanding of something before jerking your knees so hard you knock the table over.
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Sure because you have complete control over what's on your phone, don't you?
Sure thing, friend. Because the underlying proprietary code that runs the cellphone parts of your smartphone couldn't possibly have anything malicious in it, no sir.