Windows 10: Do you use Cortana?

Does anyone use Cortana on their computer or tablet? Useful productivity tool, cute novelty, or marketing gimmick?

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How do you accept the term of use? And how do you set up My Family? This is far too complicated for it's own good!

 

How do you accept the term of use? And how do you set up My Family? This is far too complicated for it's own good!

i need my family parent setup

 

Cortana is not avaliable in my language, and therfore i can not turn it on, even though i can speak english just fine.

 

No I dont. Thats for children really...

 

I was tempted, but opted to disable it with all the data it needs to collect.

 

I did for 5 seconds. It's fun to say dumb stuff to it, but otherwise, all can really do is search on Bing (ugh), check the weather, set alarms, open programs, and some other things that can accomplish much quicker by just doing it rself. can't even open websites directly (saying to open Google.com for example opens Bing and searches for "open Google.com")!

 

Nope. I turned off all the info sharing options, so... no Cortana for me. I really don't care, really. It doesn't seem useful to me at all.

 

I would use it, if it spoke to you with the same voice as cortana from Halo *Smile

 

I'd probably use it occasionally if they didn't try to force me to sign in to Windows with my MS account. No thanks!

I did try it for a few minutes before switching it back off, really wasn't that impressed - Google's voice search on my smartphone is better, I found a lot of the time it just opens Bing search with what I said (even though Bing is NOT my default search provider, Google is, duh). The Apple Siri thing is also better.

And frankly, I don't really need this kind of thing on a computer, even though it can be useful on a smartphone.

 

Not currently, although I have it set up

It doesn't sync fully with win phone 8.1 so not using it, when win phone 10 comes out with full syncing then I will use it

 

No. Not for me thanks.

 

I have tried speech recognition a few years back with a better software than even Cortana is now, but it is not meant for desktop, by the time you say, what you want, you can do it like 2-3 times using a mouse or a keyboard. It is a good idea for devices like TV, tablets or sets in the kitchen and such, it is more convenient.

 

Interesting:

Windows 10: Cool Cortana Voice Commands - YouTube

 

I tried it and i'm pissed my mic is not compatible with it and i have to use crappy one on my ms high def cam which is hardly compatible with it to, i'm forced if i want to use it go buy a new desktop mic, MS pisses me off making cortona use a high def mic or some crap.