Does anyone actually use cortana?

occasionally on laptop, and it's useful in car. be even better if both devices had always listen chip in them.

I see a time when Cortana and the others are used by the majority. they are getting better and getting more features added all the time.
 
Rroff said:
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.
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way-hay! :o :D
 
I don't use it.

I use Google now on my phone. I live that it snoops until my emails to give me delivery updates etc.
 
Glaucus said:
occasionally on laptop, and it's useful in car. be even better if both devices had always listen chip in them.

I see a time when Cortana and the others are used by the majority. they are getting better and getting more features added all the time.
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Unfortunately for Cortana to get better you need to use Bing and Edge. So as nobody uses those, Cortana won't get better.

I use Google Now all the time, because it "knows" me. Cortana sees almost nothing I do, so never will.
 
Glaucus said:
I see a time when Cortana and the others are used by the majority. they are getting better and getting more features added all the time.
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Is this some parallel universe that we are not aware of? At best its a situational product for certain types of individuals, certainly not the majority. Add in people paranoia about what data is being captured and farmed based not on your typing but on your actual voice and I just don't see it ever having any sort of mass market traction.

I work in a business that has over 500 Windows Mobile handsets for staff and I know of not a single person that uses it and now they've tied it exclusively to Bing which is cack and Edge which is even worse, Cortana is less than useless for most people.

Ultimately people just don't like talking to themselves and that's a fatal flaw in all of these types of offerings.
 
I've not found Cortana useful so far, on desktop or phone... though the latter is mainly because it does nothing whatsoever without online access, which I don't leave turned on.

In tech podcast discussions the only voice activated device which seems to have plenty of traction among savvy users is Amazon's Echo/Alexa.
 
My phone runs W10, as do my desktop, laptop and newly purchased tablet. Cortana is enabled on all devices. I use it search the device on the traditional computers, and for Internet searching on mobile devices.

Internet search via Cortana has come a long way, especially on the phone.
 
Searching the device and searching the internet isn't really using Cortana. You can do both of those with Cortana disabled.
 
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