“Microsoft has confirmed it’s getting ready to make its digital assistant Cortana available on iOS and Android in the coming months, though it comes with a caveat,” Parmy Olson reports for Forbes. “The company will be releasing a companion app in late June for Android that gives access to content from a required Windows 10 PC, Microsoft said in a blog post Tuesday.”
“There are some Cortana functions that Microsoft won’t be able to port to non-Windows Phone devices,” Olson reports. “You won’t for instance be able to toggle settings, open apps or open the Cortana app itself by saying ‘Hey, Cortana,’ since that requires a deep integration with the handset’s microphone.”
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MacDailyNews Take: More me-too worthless stupidity from The Kings of Me-Too Worthless Stupidity.
Maybe the remaining fragmandroid settlers will download it – if it’s free, of course – just to give their own Siri knockoff some company (the two clones can kibitz endlessly about IP theft, we’re sure, and conspire over what they’ll try to steal next from Apple), but for us iOS and Mac users, this’ll just be yet another bit of Microsoft superfluousness to ignore.
Predicting, this Windows 10 requirement is going to be miserable. DCW
Dead Cortana Walking
This is a good idea for microsoft. It’s what iTunes, and Safari were to the pc, sort of. In MS’s case, they are hoping it will cause user to choose them, in the form of the next mobile phone you buy would be windows based. Well, it may, people will tire of iPhone at some point and start to look around. They are hoping the experience is good so you will buy windows stuff. Now if they would just …
Seems no different than the Apple features that require Yosemite (e.g. Messages).
Messages is a Apple app so is Yosemite. Where exactly were you attempting to go with that?
Messages doesn’t require Yosemite. It was first released with Mountain Lion, but the application itself was a successor to iChat, which came out with Panther (10.2).
There may be some other features that require Yosemite, but Messages isn’t it.
Siri is fully functional without the need for a Mac. So nice try.
But we’ve been waiting more than a while to actually get Siri for Mac. *tap*tap*tap* of fingers.
Microsoft is hoping to use Apple’s strategy: a trojan horse, coupled with halo effect (ridiculous, I know!): using Cortana to lure Apple users into the Microsoft’s eco-system, then exploiting Cortana’s “halo-efrfect” to get them to try Windows and eventually switch…
At the rate that Apple quality is declining, Windows 10 might not look too bad in a year or two.
I think there is a very long way to go for Apple until that happens. Certainly longer than a year or two.
I’m looking forward to MDN’s take on W10 launch party commercials. At the rate MS is improving, certainly longer than a year or two wait for W10SP1. Or is that “weight”? 😉
“At the rate that Apple quality is declining”
If it continues as it is, they should hit Microsoft-like quality in about 20-25 years.
Microsoft just isn’t as subtle as the Greeks, and Apple isn’t as gullible as the Trojans. Instead, Cortana is just another search agent/personal assistant among several for consumers to select; she will prosper or wither depending on her skills, charm, and voice compared with other agents such as Google and Siri. Needless to say, advantage goes to the default agent on a mobile OS, but Cortana could outshine Siri and the others; time—and maybe a deathmatch between them—will tell.
They want you to call it Windows OS X like it wasn’t their idea all along.
MS’ response to OS X was Windows XP. So imaginative, I mean imitative.
So now they finally got (by cheating) up to Windows ’10’. So imaginative, I mean imitative.
What a rotting corpse of a company.
“More me-too worthless stupidity from The Kings of Me-Too Worthless Stupidity.”
I love how the media/amateur bloggers promote this “me too” POS from MS as if Apple never inspired them to copy it in the first place.
Seems like “rich Cortanian stupidity leather” to me.
Somewhere in Redmond, some MBA is rubbing his hands in glee, saying, “*This* is finally going to get all those people on Macs to finally buy a PC.”
Honestly, only one word entered my mind as i read this caption: BARF!
We’re getting Cortana?! OMG!
Wow! Awesome! Thanks Microsoft!
I’ve been waiting for this day so long!
YAAAAAAAAAAY!
Er, what’s Cortana?
I did my best to get Cortana to work on the Windows 10 Technical Preview for a demo I gave a couple months back. What a total POS. I think I actually got it to properly understand me and coordinate that with the proper response about 10% of the time. I hope Microsoft can do better or it’s going to be the laughing stock feature of Windows 10.