Tsutarja

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With Windows Phone 8.1 comes a new personal assistant. Her name is Cortana. Cortana is meant to be Microsoft's version of Siri, however what do you guys think of her?

Akiba

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Looks like Microsoft has been playing Halo recently

Hmm. Judging by what I've read, Cortana is pretty simple. In my opinion, unless you want to be searching for files on your computer, there isn't really much of a point to Cortana. Google Search already has superior search technology, and supports Voice Search as well. And any regular text search can already be done using the established Windows search function. Still, it's an interesting technology, and it has some potential.

Finally Microsoft is returning intelligence to its technology.

- A Linux user.

Legendary Silke

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Looks like Microsoft has been playing Halo recently

Hmm. Judging by what I've read, Cortana is pretty simple. In my opinion, unless you want to be searching for files on your computer, there isn't really much of a point to Cortana. Google Search already has superior search technology, and supports Voice Search as well. And any regular text search can already be done using the established Windows search function. Still, it's an interesting technology, and it has some potential.

Finally Microsoft is returning intelligence to its technology.

- A Linux user.
Did you mean Google Now?

Cortana isn't meant to search for files on your computer - in fact, it's not for normal PCs at all. It's for Windows Phone for now. Think of it as more of a personal assistant - less robotic, if you will. Set alarms, reminders, write notes, things like that... and you'll get the right notifications, in the right time, at the right place, if you wish to have that. It's no mere "search".

Either way, Cortana does have significantly more granular privacy controls compared to Google Now, and Cortana can get to places that Siri couldn't. Also, third-party app extensibility.

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Looks like Microsoft has been playing Halo recently
Am I not correct by saying Microsoft actually owns the rights to Halo and that it's just 343 making the Halo games for them (Actually it was Bungie that made them all so far up until Halo 4, and Halo Wars is an odd exclusion as well.

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Cortana seems to me like sitting in between Google Now and Siri. Google Now hogs all of your data and uses this very cleverly to present you valid information as well as contextual searches, while staying pretty inhumane. Siri is the opposite, using almost none of your data, which makes it far less smart and chartered towards your needs. So while Siri presents itself far more personally than Google Now does, I never really see iPhone users actually use Siri for something useful.

Cortana takes the intelligence of Google Now, learning from you and adapting to your needs, all whilekeeping your privacy and data safety by storing it locally on the device. Cortana also - at least from the demos I've watched - seems very personal, adapting to different ways of phrasing a sentence and answering you in a friendly way. All in a very well-done attempt to mimic a real personal assistant.

Tsutarja

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One thing I've tried with Cortana is that I cannot get the male voice to work, even if I select it under the settings.

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I like it, though I havent tried it, haha just videos.

It's more like Google Now than Siri, besides its more personal like actions than Google Nows robot like AI. It's sad that Siri with iOS 8 didn't get the lift to compete with those two.

How do you like using it?