Does anyone actually use cortana?

EdwardTeach · 6 May 2016 at 12:53

(title was initially autocorrected to "does anyone actually use courtesans"!)

First thing I do when I install w10 is turn cortana off. I am wondering if I am being a bit of a boring luddite?

Minstadave · 6 May 2016 at 12:56

Nope, same here, remove it from taskbar and forget about it.

Pyr0m@nI@]{ · 6 May 2016 at 12:58

Nope, just more useless windows bloat

Rroff · 6 May 2016 at 12:59

Turn it straight off - I'd remove every last bit of it from my OS if I could.

However someone raised an interesting point about its usefulness in certain situations the other day which I could see the benefits of i.e. when hands free operation would be actually useful.

Grrrrr · 6 May 2016 at 13:45

Minstadave said:
Nope, same here, remove it from taskbar and forget about it.

Same here

EdwardTeach · 6 May 2016 at 13:47

Does it do anything begins search? Can you do stuff like "open outlook" or "sleep mode"

m4cc45 · 6 May 2016 at 13:51

Depends on the device.

Surface / Windows Mobile then ocassionally - though I don't know why you need it to turn on quiet hours, etc. I'd say it's very comparable to how much I use Siri.

On a desktop I never use it.

M.

Caged · 6 May 2016 at 13:58

Minstadave said:
Nope, same here, remove it from taskbar and forget about it.

I also never use Siri.

Orcvader · 6 May 2016 at 14:16

Tried, didn't like, disabled. Even worse now Cortana is locked to Edge and Bing. Maybe once Cortana for Android becomes officially avaliable for the UK, I may give it a go, some features such as SMS from the desktop looks handy.

Slam · 6 May 2016 at 14:31

I do, of course not always but sometimes. I use the windows c shortcut for stuff like
- what will the weather be like tomorrow?
- remind me to put a parking permit in the car at 8pm today?
- when are Arsenal playing next?

(I think those were my last three uses)

Cosimo · 6 May 2016 at 14:40

Turned off on desktop and Surface.

MouthBoy · 6 May 2016 at 16:57

Nope. Disabled it and turned off web searches from start menu too.

d_brennen · 6 May 2016 at 17:02

Use it when driving sometimes. One double tap to wake screen and a jab at Cortana's pulsating ring - "call my wife" etc

Raumarik · 6 May 2016 at 18:13

I tried it but never got it to work... That was day one with Windows ten last year, been disabled since.

kayomani · 6 May 2016 at 18:22

Never used it, got disabled when I went through disabling all the telemetry "features".

Gze · 6 May 2016 at 20:09

Just another excuse to be tracked

Skeeter · 7 May 2016 at 11:26

Never. And now it's locked to Bing, I'll use it even less

Stoner81 · 7 May 2016 at 12:15

Minstadave said:
Nope, same here, remove it from taskbar and forget about it.

^ Nuff said

Stoner81.

joey1211 · 7 May 2016 at 12:24

d_brennen said:
One double tap to wake and a jab at Cortana's pulsating ring

Fixed.

Mr-White · 7 May 2016 at 12:28

Mines constantly opened, but hat's because my phones broken