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Microsoft Announces Cortana For iPhone Available Later This Year

Michael Goff said:
No, the Ribbon should not have been tossed out years ago. And your anecdotal response also means very little. Most enterprises use Office because it works for what they need. If OpenOffice did, they'd move to that ... companies don't like paying for things they don't need.
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But many companies also buy the same crap for every user because they have a license program and what you get is what they have.

It's the old idea that if everyone has always used Office, they will always use Office. Nothing short of the bankruptcy of Microsoft, or it being made totally unusable by 'feature bloat' or other things is going to make them change.

Quack quack waddle waddle...

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Benjamin Frost said:
Cortana makes me think of Ford.
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Didn't Chrysler/Dodge have a car named the Cortina?:rolleyes:
 
Renzatic said:
I've seen far too many of my friends shoot themselves in the hand with a nailgun to ever be truly trusting of them.

...but then again, my friends are kinda dumb.
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True story. I knew a guy who was nailing off the plywood decking on a new house and put a ring nail through his big toe with a nail gun. They had to cut the plywood out around his foot and took him to the hospital with the wood attached to his boot.
 
AppleScruff1 said:
True story. I knew a guy who was nailing off the plywood decking on a new house and put a ring nail through his big toe with a nail gun. They had to cut the plywood out around his foot and took him to the hospital with the wood attached to his boot.
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I don't think I've seen anything that extreme. The worst was the time I had a friend of mine brad nailing some wooden boxes together for me. Everything's going swimmingly, when suddenly, I hear this :THUNK:-AAAAHHHH. I turn around, and see him staring at a board he's holding in his hand with this look of great concern on his face.

...it slowly dawned on me that he wasn't holding the board at all. It was attached to his hand.

Long story short, cotton and duct tape does wonders.
 
Digital Skunk said:
This might be excellent news for folks that live in a Microsft world but carry iOS devices.

If only Apple ported iTunes and the iTunes music store over to Windows Mobile and Android. And also allowed them to sync with iTunes on the Mac and PC.
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Let me tell you as someone who has used Cortana pretty extensively.. this is good for EVERYONE with an iPhone. Cortana is awesome, it is a far better voice assistant with a wider range of features over Siri. The only question I have is the extent to which Apple will allow the Cortana application to interact with iOS in general - time will tell as to whether the iOS version will be on a tight leash on iOS devices or not. I hope that Apple just enable Cortana to have the 'run of the device'... if it's anywhere near as good as its implementation on Windows Phone it's reason to rejoice !

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jayducharme said:
"Initially"? How about "never"? I can't see Apple relaxing iOS that much, giving an app access to system-controlling features such as launching native apps. And I also bet that you won't be able to start Cortana by holding the home button. Even apps like Launch Center work only with specific 3rd-party apps. I would bet that Cortana will launch MS apps, such as Office.

In other words, Cortana will be allowed very limited functionality in iOS, which will reduce its usefulness.
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And this is why the jailbreak community exist and why my phone is still jailbroken to 8.1.2. The jailbreak community will make Cortana the default voice command program and will make it replace Siri by default.
 
Mackinjosh said:
Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Phone 8, Office, Azure are all infinitely better than their Apple counterparts. Windows 10 runs better on a new Mac than the latest version of Mac OS does.
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Windows in general hasn't had any breakthrough UI features that improve consumer productivity since Windows 95.
 
BCWorld said:
Not interested, stopped using Microsoft products and removed them from all of my apple devices a long time ago. Good riddance. ��
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You are my hero! Enlightened liberator.

farewelwilliams said:
Windows in general hasn't had any breakthrough UI features that improve consumer productivity since Windows 95.
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Seriously? There were quite a few UI features to alter productivity, like Aero snap for example. I am using it every day: maximizing, minimizing split screen windows are matter of seconds. Windows 10 brings even more.

Allow me the opposite question: what productivity UI features did Apple introduce the first OSX of yore?

Oh sure:

- they killed Expose functionality of Snow Leo with productivity mess of Mission Control

- they allowed window resizing from every corner instead of bottom right. Truly outstanding innovative avant-garde, despite being an unspeakable heresy

- they brought us Yosemite countless UI innovations, - UI LAG being the greatest of them. Oh, I forgot: transparency and new trash are building the front row of productivity boosters, hands down. And speaking of Front Row...

Killing useful features for no particular reason, - a revolutionary productivity concept.
 
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Even Longer said:
To summarize all above I personally consider a suicide to use iWork apps in any serious productive environment! Not only you have to deal with some nonsense limitations, but you are totally at Apple’s mercy, when it comes to your data! I wouldn’t even consider iWork for home environment because of all above.

Nevertheless, have fun in your golden cage. It might become too small to fit someday, and your burning desire would be nothing but the door key!
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Wow. You are very alarmist.

I have never experienced anything like that with iWork - but I have experienced incompatibilities with Microsoft software. Namely Excel. Where someone writes using '13, and I only have '10 installed, and the company won't upgrade my machine until next year.

At the last upgrades, I went mac, and since then have never had these issues.
 
1000 said:
Let me tell you as someone who has used Cortana pretty extensively.. this is good for EVERYONE with an iPhone. Cortana is awesome, it is a far better voice assistant with a wider range of features over Siri. The only question I have is the extent to which Apple will allow the Cortana application to interact with iOS in general - time will tell as to whether the iOS version will be on a tight leash on iOS devices or not. I hope that Apple just enable Cortana to have the 'run of the device'... if it's anywhere near as good as its implementation on Windows Phone it's reason to rejoice !

1000
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Dude good to know. I barely use Siri as it is because she's rather . . . . meh.

I have a feeling it'll be an uphill battle for MS to get Apple to relinquish control of the OS. It's bad enough that 3rd parties can't get default app status for things like Mail, Photos, Calendar, tasks, etc. it's really the only reason I use the default apps.

Falling in love with Gmail means dealing with the headaches of being brought back to Mail when I want to email a photo.
 
Digital Skunk said:
Dude good to know. I barely use Siri as it is because she's rather . . . . meh.

I have a feeling it'll be an uphill battle for MS to get Apple to relinquish control of the OS. It's bad enough that 3rd parties can't get default app status for things like Mail, Photos, Calendar, tasks, etc. it's really the only reason I use the default apps.

Falling in love with Gmail means dealing with the headaches of being brought back to Mail when I want to email a photo.
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this is why Android is where it's at. There is just no room for innovation on iOS. "innovations" on iOS come from API x or y which create a new app or feature. innovation on Android is about integration of various apps to do something "completely new", without building a new app that does that. iOS is really only good for the most simple of use-cases.
 
Jayomat said:
this is why Android is where it's at. There is just no room for innovation on iOS. "innovations" on iOS come from API x or y which create a new app or feature. innovation on Android is about integration of various apps to do something "completely new", without building a new app that does that. iOS is really only good for the most simple of use-cases.
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I 100% agree with you on that.

it's really the only reason I moved back to the iPhone after having a Note 2. I could (and did) turn my Note into a desktop for basic tasks when I was back at the office and could do so much with it natively.

On iOS, the only thing I really use that are iPhone specific are the iWork suite of apps, iTunes and at the time Lightroom mobile.

Everything else, from Asana to Final Draft to Chrome and Wunderlist and MS Office and so many many many others are cross platform. If Apple ever made is so that Android based handsets fit into the Apple ecosystem there'd be a serious drop in sales.
 
Digital Skunk said:
Everything else, from Asana to Final Draft to Chrome and Wunderlist and MS Office and so many many many others are cross platform. If Apple ever made is so that Android based handsets fit into the Apple ecosystem there'd be a serious drop in sales.
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Somehow I live and run a business quite happily without any of those, except the occasional Powerpoint I'm forced to deal with, about once or twice a year. Android users can keep it.

Personally, I would hate if Apple became a uncontrolled, random wild west like Android. I prefer vetted quality, app/device optimization and reliability. I dipped my toes into the wild west of open source with XBMC and found out what a crappy experience and time sucker that is. No thanks. I have better things to do than tinker.

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Even Longer said:
You are my hero! Enlightened liberator.



Seriously? There were quite a few UI features to alter productivity, like Aero snap for example. I am using it every day: maximizing, minimizing split screen windows are matter of seconds. Windows 10 brings even more.

Allow me the opposite question: what productivity UI features did Apple introduce the first OSX of yore?

Oh sure:

- they killed Expose functionality of Snow Leo with productivity mess of Mission Control

- they allowed window resizing from every corner instead of bottom right. Truly outstanding innovative avant-garde, despite being an unspeakable heresy

- they brought us Yosemite countless UI innovations, - UI LAG being the greatest of them. Oh, I forgot: transparency and new trash are building the front row of productivity boosters, hands down. And speaking of Front Row...

Killing useful features for no particular reason, - a revolutionary productivity concept.
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I love Apple's handoff feature and Spotlight search. And I hit spacebar to preview files in finder windows all the time. Especially handy to look through a huge stack of photos or movies to find the one I want.
 
rmatthewware said:
Siri has issues when I use it on my phone, but I don't think I've had any problem with using it on my watch. Maybe my mouth is closer to the mic? Whatever it is, Siri is much nicer when it works :D
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It understands what I say, its just the results it gives me in return that suck
 
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