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> During today’s earnings call, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also noted that Windows 10 users have now asked Cortana 8 billion questions to date. Not sure if th
by 0xmohit 10y ago
> During today’s earnings call, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also noted that Windows 10 users have now asked Cortana 8 billion questions to date.
Not sure if this qualifies as an achievement. Too many questions would perhaps suggest that things aren't quite obvious.
Wish I had a Windows box to play around and see what Cortana looks like. A variant of Clippy?
- xamlhacker 10y agoCortana isn't a Windows help client, rather it is an intelligent assistant and search engine. To give you a very common example, you can ask Cortana about today's weather. So not sure how that is related to "things aren't quite obvious".
- sdrothrock 10y ago> Not sure if this qualifies as an achievement. Too many questions would perhaps suggest that things aren't quite obvious. > Wish I had a Windows box to play around and see what Cortana looks like. A variant of Clippy? Your comment suggests that you don't know what Cortana is, so I'm not sure how you're coming to the conclusion that "Too many questions would perhaps suggest that things aren't quite obvious." Cortana is a digital assistant, like Apple's Siri. Common queries could be things like "when's my next appointment," "what time is it in Tokyo," or "when's the next showing of Interstellar?" It doesn't reflect on Windows itself possibly being hard to use.
- 0xmohit 10y agoI keep forgetting that, in today's world, people would even need to ask Siri or Cortana whether they are thirsty.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoOT: It's a complete aside but humour me. IME people can mistake thirst for hunger - one thinks one is very hungry but drinking some water (or other drink) and the feeling of hunger subsides, not scientific but there seems to be something in it. I wonder if there is some test for an optimum hydration level that a computer could do (visually?) or indeed if in a few decades we'll be monitored so closely in our actions in our homes (or at least those of us who are rich will) that Son-of-Siri will be telling us we should have a drink. Probably Microsoft/Apple/Google/Buy&Large will be getting back-room deals to get their intelligent companions to order specific brands of drink for us and make recommendations when we're not quite thirsty that we need a drink "how about a Buy&Large cola"!!?
- jsjohnst 10y agoNice Wall•E reference there
- slededit 10y agoStart menu searches are also cortana searches.
- dingo_bat 10y agoStart menu searches are not "asking Cortana questions".
- slededit 10y agoDo you use windows 10? Click the start menu and your caret is immediately in the cortana search box. The grey prompt text says "I'm cortana ask me anything". It works the same if you press the window key on your keyboard.
- dingo_bat 10y agoI was referring to the search performed when you open the start menu and start typing. It doesn't seem like a Cortana "question".
- venomsnake 10y ago7+ billion of which are probably - How the $#%$ to turn that $#$% off? They are terrible imo. Cortana (and any other cloud "service") are the first things turned off on any windows install.