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Cortana Now Reminds You To Do the Things You Promised in Emails (theverge.com)
From a report: Microsoft is adding a new feature to Cortana today that will remind you to keep your promises. Suggested reminders lets Cortana remind you when you've promised to do something in an email. Microsoft is using machine learning to highlight phrases in emails where you might promise your boss something, or make a commitment to a friend or family member. The result is a reminder that pops up telling you "don't forget you mentioned this." Cortana's suggested reminders will be available in the US first on Windows 10 PCs, and Microsoft is planning to bring them to iOS and Android in the coming weeks. Microsoft is supporting Outlook.com and Office 365 accounts for these reminders, and other accounts like Gmail will be supported soon. You'll need to connect an Outlook.com or Office 365 account to Cortana to enable the feature, and you'll start receiving reminders once the service detects your promises and commitments.
Remind me to disable Cortana
OMG!!! Ponies!!!
Mmm yummy a program that reads my mail and will chase me down for shit
Where do I sign up for this abuse? (oh yeah I installed Windows 10 abuse is complimentary)
Important things wont get done if you get reminded all the time to go back and fix all the perfect world problems that you promised yourself you'd do. Unfortunately life gets in the way and the important things quickly take priority. Being reminded to go and correct the whitespace in a random header file isn't going to help anyone.
Why UNIX?
Isn't this how Microsoft tried to bash Google, because they matched keywords in emails to ads?
Cortana will accomplish the mission despite you endangering it.
Then again, if Google can do exactly the same thing to improve the accuracy of targeted advertising I suppose this is relatively innocuous. Still, can I meaningfully out out of should I just make sure GPG/PGP is installed and working correctly? After all, the OS itself does a couple dozen phone-homes, why should web services be any different?
I can't wait until Cortana reminds someone to carry out their death threat...
It is still possible to disable Cortana in any version of Windows 10.
Go to http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/... and scroll down to Does that mean that you cannot turn of Cortana anymore? and you will find instructions to activate the GP template or enter the registry key directly into regedit.
I suppose Microsoft thought they were smart calling it "Cortana" rather than "Big Brother", but it definitely seems headed the same way. What's next, will she start "fixing" your outgoing emails and snooping on the incoming ones according to what the party line is for the moment, and fire of a message to HR or some three letter agency if anything suspicious turns up?
I love how "Machine Learning" is basically the new hit buzzword (phrase) of 2017. Everything is now "WITH MACHINE LEARNING!" - which is really usually just a static algorithm that searches for generic key words. If you use Facebook, you've probably already seen this in where they highlight words representing time or dates and if you click on them it'll generate a calendar item for you. Microsoft is literally just doing the same, only without the asking part now, but labeling it "Machine Learning" and calling it "OMGZ INNOVATION!"
seriously people, how are we still putting up with this shit ?!
Microsoft kept telling everyone that only Google reads your email, and they don't. Now they're admitting that Cortana will read your email without your permission!
Disable Cortana.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Needs to read, "Cortana now reads all of your emails".
*ding* Cortana reminder: Don't forget your appointment with Todd today (Friday) to rip your fucking nuts off and feed them to your children.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
If this is purely local and I can turn it off, that's fine.
If it's cloud-based, it better be encrypted in a way that only I can decrypt it.
If I can't turn it off, well, read Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Seriously, how do I shut down this nanny state product?
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If only cortana could remind itself to never show up again...
Look ma' another idiot! There must be a nest here somewhere...
They make it difficult to remove. You can't just click a button or turn off a service if you want it really to be gone (like i do.) I ended up having to change ownership of the directory and then moved it so it can't load. It made a huge performance improvement on my son's (relatively old I7) laptop.
Just a guess...
1. "Can it be disabled?"
2. "How much longer are we going to be able to disable it?"
3. "What will break in the process of this being disabled that I actually DO want from the system?"
These are honestly the 3 questions I have been asking EVERY SINGLE TIME Microsoft announced any new "feature" for an OS in the past 3 years. There was not a single instance of "hey, I've been waiting for that!" or "Now that's a good idea".
Not
a
single
one
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
And then tells Microsoft when you've done it.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
I am amazed.
No! It's a *SIG*. Keep the Special Interest Groups away! (Con joke!)
Let me guess. The AI that performs the processing to create the reminders regarding promises you made in your emails is very powerful and smart. So smart that all your emails are transferred off and processed on a Powerful Cloud Computer that Microsoft is generous to provide gratis, free of charge!
> Coming soon from Microsoft: there's a robot for that.
MS could blackmail millions of people.
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
Am I the only one that get scared with that stuff ? I must be getting too old. I used to think that S. Hawking was an alarmist when he said that AI might end mankind... Not so much anymore.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius
OMG who the fuck voted this troll... this is literally a fact posted about a previous story and a note on the relevance and irony. I swear Microsoft's minions must be here to manipulate posts.