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Cortana available on iOS and Android

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Re: Cortana available on iOS and Android

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Post by fweespeech »

KirinDave wrote: post #83
fweespeech wrote: post #6

How about you let me strip it completely out of Windows 10 instead of just turning/disabling it mostly off?

You can disable all its callback features. All that's left is the interface to windows search. 9)% of what Cortana is is just a new cross-entity search framework for your stuff. But you can turn it all off by unpairing it (or just using an local Win10 Account). Or you can keep squatting on Windows 7 until it EOLs and use a desktop OS that manages to be even more dated than Mac OS X.

> You can disable all its callback features.

The fact I have to write a host file to do that makes it rather irritating but, yes, with a local account and the appropriate host file and all the features turned off it sorta-works.

The concern is Windows Update will turn it back on as it has with other things in the past.

Re: Cortana available on iOS and Android

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Post by JimDabell »

jamesoneill wrote: post #98
jrockway wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Accept-Language is fun. I have an accept-language that orders them en, ja, other. aa.com (American Airlines) then uses that to display the content to me in English, except dates and times which always appear in Japanese (１２月２５日 午後１時１０分). Fun times.

For a while I had my system language preferences set as en-UK, ja, en-US and every so often I'd get an installation that was in Japanese because there was no UK English version.

The country code for the United Kingdom is GB, not UK. There's no such language code as en-UK. British English is designated en-GB.

Re: Cortana available on iOS and Android

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Post by kylequest »

LargeCompanies wrote: post #74

It's on-boarding process needs to consist of entering an email address/password for account creation only and or a social sign in option. After going through a frustrating sign up with many screens and processes I was able to use Cortana. There I realized if it's not built into the phone it's going to be hard to delight users and or compete with each devices' built in assistant. I use Siri daily and she is useful whe…

You shouldn't even need an account... unless you want to enable advanced features. Access to your location and maybe your address book should be enough. I deleted Cortana on my phone as soon as it asked me to login with a Microsoft account :-)

Re: Cortana available on iOS and Android

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Post by tedks »

KirinDave wrote: post #80
dharma1 wrote: post #9

do Siri, OK Google or Cortana offer any API's for 3rd party apps? So that I could do things like get X app to do Y with voice commands? Either when I've got the app open/focused, or even when the app isn't running?

Yes, someone else linked it. Another interesting point, Cortana is itself a CLIENT of open APIs you can build on as well. https://graph.microsoft.io/ It's a pretty interesting concept. It means it's really easy to knit together a user. One of the most fascinating concepts is this notion exposed by mbrace of "just in time" and "user specific" clusters. You can use a user's Azure environment to do distributed computati…

What is Sovereign? It isn't googleable for me.

Re: Cortana available on iOS and Android

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Post by arca_vorago »

[deleted] wrote: post #110

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"They have lost the right to manage software, so we the creators, will manage it for them - on a perpetual plan."

I hope we drive creators like this out of business. You don't get to make decisions like that about the user and if you do you should be punished in your wallet and with public denunciation. This is the reason RMS was and is right about GPL.

I am increasingly convinced that people need to start open-sourcing their life now before it's too late and they get too locked into and used to the proprietary walled garden ecosystems.

Re: Cortana available on iOS and Android

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

jamesoneill wrote: post #98
jrockway wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Accept-Language is fun. I have an accept-language that orders them en, ja, other. aa.com (American Airlines) then uses that to display the content to me in English, except dates and times which always appear in Japanese (１２月２５日 午後１時１０分). Fun times.

For a while I had my system language preferences set as en-UK, ja, en-US and every so often I'd get an installation that was in Japanese because there was no UK English version.

Is that a problem? It sounds like what you asked for.

Re: Cortana available on iOS and Android

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Post by scholia »

acheron wrote: post #109
vocatus_gate wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Problem is Microsoft will likely abandon Cortana before very long, like they've done with SO many of their products. Plays4Sure, the original Surface, Silverlight, I could go on. MS has no stomach for long-term commitment to their non-core products, and as such I'm always counting down the days till their latest innovation/copyvation gets the ax.

I don't think "abandoned products" is something you want to bring up in favor of Google.

A hit, a palpable hit ;-)

Re: Cortana available on iOS and Android

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Post by Zekio »

guelo wrote: post #90

Went to install it on Android until I saw the list of permissions: - Device & app history - Identity - Calendar - Contacts - Location - SMS - Phone - Photos/Media/Files - Microphone - WiFi connection information - Bluetooth connection information - Device ID & call information Wow!

Isn't this less permissions than Facebook apps use anyway?

Re: Cortana available on iOS and Android

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Post by MitchellKnight »

I purchased Nokia with Windows Phone 7 expecting the same kind of OS updates that I got as an Apple user. My iPad 2 (from 2011) is on the latest iOS version. Instead Microsoft abandoned Windows Phone 7 users. It's mildly annoying that I can get Cortana on my iPad now but not my Windows Phone device.

Re: Cortana available on iOS and Android

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Post by [deleted] »

arca_vorago wrote: post #115
[deleted] wrote: post #110

[deleted]

"They have lost the right to manage software, so we the creators, will manage it for them - on a perpetual plan." I hope we drive creators like this out of business. You don't get to make decisions like that about the user and if you do you should be punished in your wallet and with public denunciation. This is the reason RMS was and is right about GPL. I am increasingly convinced that people need to start open-sourc…

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