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Love current PR lingo. Just shove self-praise into every piece of communication. > Cortana is continuing to redefine the nature of a digital assistant, ... acc

by aasasd 6y ago

Love current PR lingo. Just shove self-praise into every piece of communication. > Cortana is continuing to redefine the nature of a digital assistant, ... accelerating productivity to help save you time and focus on the things that matter most > The first change is to end support for all third-party Cortana skills > Cortana in Surface Headphones will continue pivoting toward its mission to help customers with productivity throughout their day. We’ll be removing support for the previous version of Cortana in the first version of Surface Headphones So much acceleration, wow.

Igelau 6y ago
We would like to reiterate that we have not sent Cortana to the glue factory!
thatguy0900 6y ago
>Also in 2021, Cortana in Surface Headphones will continue pivoting toward its mission to help customers with productivity throughout their day. ... By shutting it down? Maybe they found out people were only using it to slack off
zenexer 6y ago
My favorite: > As we make this shift toward a transformational AI-powered assistant experience in Microsoft 365... While I’m sure there’s a world of difference, I couldn’t help but chuckle at the thought of Clippy making a comeback. “transformational AI-powered assistant experience in Microsoft 365” certainly sounds like a PR-enhanced description of Clippy.
- GordonS 6y ago
  Hah, it sounds more like Clippy wrote this PR puff piece! I can just imagine PR Clippy... "It looks like you're trying to write spin, can I help you with that?"
chris_wot 6y ago
> As we make this shift toward a transformational AI-powered assistant experience in Microsoft 365, we need to adjust our focus areas of innovation and development to give our customers assistance where they need it most. As a result, we are making changes to some U.S. consumer-centric features and functionalities with lower usage. I can’t even parse that last line. “Making changes [to functionality] with lower usage.” Does that mean that it is less used? Or does that mean they are lowering usage?

by aasasd 6y ago

Igelau 6y ago

We would like to reiterate that we have not sent Cortana to the glue factory!

thatguy0900 6y ago

>Also in 2021, Cortana in Surface Headphones will continue pivoting toward its mission to help customers with productivity throughout their day. ... By shutting it down? Maybe they found out people were only using it to slack off

zenexer 6y ago

My favorite: > As we make this shift toward a transformational AI-powered assistant experience in Microsoft 365... While I’m sure there’s a world of difference, I couldn’t help but chuckle at the thought of Clippy making a comeback. “transformational AI-powered assistant experience in Microsoft 365” certainly sounds like a PR-enhanced description of Clippy.

GordonS 6y ago
Hah, it sounds more like Clippy wrote this PR puff piece! I can just imagine PR Clippy... "It looks like you're trying to write spin, can I help you with that?"

chris_wot 6y ago

> As we make this shift toward a transformational AI-powered assistant experience in Microsoft 365, we need to adjust our focus areas of innovation and development to give our customers assistance where they need it most. As a result, we are making changes to some U.S. consumer-centric features and functionalities with lower usage. I can’t even parse that last line. “Making changes [to functionality] with lower usage.” Does that mean that it is less used? Or does that mean they are lowering usage?