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I'm not thrilled with any software on my PC
automatically examining my personal emails to
tell me anything. I can see hackers now thinking
of ways of using this "Improvement" too their
advantage. Thanks... but no thanks!
At 03:28 AM 5/23/2016, you wrote:
Hi Dane
Kortana will be much more intelligent this year.
For example examining your mails for
appointments and being able to notify you about these.
Brian
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Fra: Pc-audio
[mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] PÃ¥ vegne af Dane Trethowan
Sendt: 22. maj 2016 23:17
Til: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Emne: Windows 10 and Cortana
Hi!
I'm surprised Cortana hasn't been mentioned here
at all, for those who don't know Cortana is the
search facility in Windows 10 which combines
Voice Recognition to search for and accomplish tasks.
I use Cortana from time to time but for some
reason I don't feel as comfortable using Cortana
on my Windows Desktop as I do using Google on one of my Android devices.
In my view Google products have a strangle hold
on the Voice Recognition game but having said
all that its early days for Cortana and we're
going to see a lot of development in this area
from all sorts of players and perhaps we'll even
see Apple with their SIRI catch up in this area too.
I've been able to have Cortana open Apps on my
computer, tell me the time and current
temperature in different locations and have
Cortana open various web sites but I haven't
really been able to get much further than that.
I tried to have Cortana send an eMail but I was
told I didn't have an eMail account configured
which isn't quite correct, I use Mozilla
Thunderbird on the Desktop PC and - whilst
Cortana has no problem whatever in opening
Thunderbird when commanded - it must rely on an
Outlook Email account or something similar set up, that's my assumption anyway.
Surprisingly I haven't been able to get Cortana
to "Call" numbers and this struck me as very odd
given I have Skype, a Microsoft product
installed on the system. When I asked Cortana
to "Call 123 4567" I was told that, "Sorry, I
can't call anyone on this system".
So there we are, my few cents worth on
Cortana. Besides the voice recognition features
is the search feature from the keyboard which I
just wouldn't be without and of course I've been using this since Windows 7.
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