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Parallels 11 With Windows 10 to Allow Mac Users to Access Cortana on OS X

jayhawk11 said:
God this company is just as bad as EA. Yearly paid upgrades and built-in ads on a virtualization program is absurd.
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Yeah I used to buy every version of vmware fusion until I caught on that I will have to do this forever because their updates never support current OSes. I gave up and found other methods of acquiring keys... I won't go into details but I'm sure people get the idea.
 
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Michael Goff said:
If Google Now isn't integrated and is the only one to not use Bing...
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Don't use that either :)

My use for one of these is quite limited. I understand that isn't true for everyone. I just don't see myself stretching to use this in OS X. On a phone, sure...but less likely if I have to install it. If it's there in Windows 10 and I'm using it, fine. I don't use Windows outside of work very much these days though.
 
kirky29 said:
Yeah but only when you've got the power cable in... Think it actually has to be on charge too.. Pretty useless to me.
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If you have an :apple:Watch you can just raise your wrist and say "hey siri"...

One of the few things (non-timekeeping) I use the watch for.
 
Thunderhawks said:
Parallels is a bag of hurt.
As soon as you buy it, they want to charge you for the next version
say 2-4 weeks later.
It even looks as if they are waiting, not include everything and then add.

Gave up on parallels long time ago.
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Paying for a new version every year? It's almost like people expect to get paid for their work over the course of that year or something.

Nah, couldn't be it.
 
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simonelwell said:
Am I missing something. Is Cortana believed to be better than Siri? Why would someone with a Mac want to use Cortana?
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Competition is good and the interface looks to be better than Siri. Apple tries to make Siri fun with some of the responses, but it gets old quick. Making an AI assistant fun would mean that it would be used more. This is the future of how we use our phones, hell our computers and any connected devices. This tech is in it's infancy. In a few years we will be walking up to our homes and telling Siri or Cortana to unlock our doors and start playing last night's episode of Mr. Robot and then to fluff the clothes in the dryer and order our favorite pizza.
 
skinned66 said:
Don't use that either :)

My use for one of these is quite limited. I understand that isn't true for everyone. I just don't see myself stretching to use this in OS X. On a phone, sure...but less likely if I have to install it. If it's there in Windows 10 and I'm using it, fine. I don't use Windows outside of work very much these days though.
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I'm just saying that if you use Siri on the phone and it searches for things, you're using Bing. That was my only point.
 
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kirky29 said:
Yeah but only when you've got the power cable in... Think it actually has to be on charge too.. Pretty useless to me.
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Why would you have a power cable plugged in if it wasn't charging? Anyway, I use Siri a lot when my iPhone is plugged in. Usually to tell her what time to wake me up in the morning. I know, nothing groundbreaking, but that's just the tip of the iceberg of what she will be able to do in time.
 
Thunderhawks said:
Parallels is a bag of hurt.
As soon as you buy it, they want to charge you for the next version
say 2-4 weeks later.
It even looks as if they are waiting, not include everything and then add.

Gave up on parallels long time ago.
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I hate it, but I have to use it every day on my work computer. Honestly, it's not as bad as it used to be. But I have a beast of Mac running it and my IT guy set it up so I can use Command keys on the Windows side.
 
I just wish Parallels would fix the issues plaguing version 10 of the software. Looks like they'll just roll the fixes into Parallels 11 and sell me an upgrade.

Interesting thing is that last night, I tried to install the Win 10 Enterprise Preview via Parallels and the install went great up until the point that it was finally ready to boot to the Win 10 desktop and then it threw an error saying that one of the Parallels drivers wasn't signed properly and that I had to repair the install.

There was no option to continue so I was simply SOL. The Parallels "Support" team (I use that term loosely) told me to try rolling back to a previous snapshot of the VM. When I replied that I didn't have any snapshots since I had just installed the OS, their response was that they're working with Microsoft to try to find the cause of the problem. I told them that it seems pretty cut and dry that one of their drivers isn't signed properly. I'm sure that problem will be fixed with Parallels 11 but who knows if they'll leave Parallels 10 out in the cold or not?

Also, full screen VMs on external monitors, while supported, have been broken since at least version 10.1.2. It used to be that if you powered down a VM that had been full screen on an external monitor, closed Parallels, reopened Parallels, and launched that VM again, it would automatically return to full screen on the external monitor it had been on when it was closed. Ever since 10.1.2, whenever I launch a VM that had been full screen on my external monitor, it launches full screen on my MacBook display and I have to shrink it down, drag it over to one of my two external monitors, and make it full screen again.

I reported that problem months ago, they acknowledged the problem, but still have yet to fix it. Once again, it will probably be fixed in version 11.0, which I'll have to pay for.
 
Saucesome2000 said:
Why would you have a power cable plugged in if it wasn't charging? Anyway, I use Siri a lot when my iPhone is plugged in. Usually to tell her what time to wake me up in the morning. I know, nothing groundbreaking, but that's just the tip of the iceberg of what she will be able to do in time.
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Siri has been around since Oct 2011 in iOS... and she is just now (slowly I might add) getting the ability to really link deep into things... almost 4 years later... And it still can't run locally... Siri development is pretty glacial comparatively. Sure "in time", but it is going to be a long time...

Anything to bring competition closer to siri's home turf will probably speed that up.
 
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Michael Goff said:
I almost want to check if it works like that while having it plugged into an external battery.
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I don't know why it wouldn't. It can't tell the difference between AC and an external battery, as far as I know. Plugged in is plugged in.
 
I can't get the reserve a copy of Windows 10 option on my Parallels 10. I know absolutely nothing about these things, their support was useless, and I have to use Windows unfortunately because of my main work software is not available for Mac. Guess I'm stuck with Windows 8, because there's no support whatsoever from Parallels, except for somebody telling me it should work (which it obviously doesn't, otherwise I wouldn't be asking you duh)
 
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The stupid thing is I don't want to say 'Hey Siri/Cortana'

I want to choose my own command and choose my assistant's name. If I cam grumble like Christian Bale's Batman and call my computer Alfred then I'm up for this virtual assistant thing.
 
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If Cortana goes down well on windows then im sure we will get Siri on OSX at some point.
 
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