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Its a huge market, but space for a lot of niches.
Named after the fictional Halo character: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana
Careful, people. If the aliens invade make sure you're using your iPhone that day.
Other than being a bigger number, what radically different changes is the author expecting for Windows Phone 9? It seems like all the fundamentals are there. The changes to the OS at this point are rather incremental
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I think it's a fascinating move on Microsoft's part to integrate a video game character into a users day-to-day reality. I can imagine some nostalgia fueled sales happening as a result. But moreover, I can't help but be reminded of the movie Her. Where the lines between our physical reality and our digital reality start to blur
Interesting, as well, that Microsoft wrote a love story between Cortana and Master Chief.
I am slowly becoming convinced that the next killer app is the personal assistant app. My life is sharded between contact books and voip apps and IM and email that hardly if ever talk to each other or make my life easier. Its a huge market, but space for a lot of niches.
We could all focus more on the work and let VS handle the scheduling and minutiae according to our priorities.
"Microsoft realizes mobile moves faster than the traditional desktop world it is used to, and asking the industry to wait for Windows 9 and Windows Phone 9 is simply not an option." Other than being a bigger number, what radically different changes is the author expecting for Windows Phone 9? It seems like all the fundamentals are there. The changes to the OS at this point are rather incremental
Named after the fictional Halo character: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana
I think it's a fascinating move on Microsoft's part to integrate a video game character into a users day-to-day reality. I can imagine some nostalgia fueled sales happening as a result. But moreover, I can't help but be reminded of the movie Her. Where the lines between our physical reality and our digital reality start to blur
That's because it's a fallacy from the start. What happens on-line, what's digital, is as real as anything else. It's a mental dead end to think there are two separate things.
Kudos to MS for making their personal assistant extendable by third party apps. Neither Apple nor Google have managed to do that yet.
It's basically a pluggable Google Now with APIs. I think it's great.
I'd like to be able to talk to my Windows 8.1 PC the same way I can talk to my Android/iOS/Windows Phone. Would be very handy I think.