I got to say, the frothing-at-the-mouth-fanboism on this site never gets old... Even more funny, once one realizes that most of the fan"bois" here are middle aged men... LOL Keep it going Apple-tards! Who needs The Onion when one has Apple Insider?
He's already banned AFAIK. Quoting him/her now just makes more clean-up work for mods, or worse lets those offensive posts live on if your quote goes unnoticed.
Not quite sure why but that picture makes me think of the pre cogs from Minority Report.
Me: Show me google search results for restaurants near me: Cortana: Here are your Bing! search results for restaurants near Redmond, WA Me: Uh, no, I asked for GOOGLE results for restaurants near ME. Cortana: Here are Bing! search results for restaurants in MAINE. ME: Uh, no, GOOGLE search for restaurants near where I am now. Cortana: There are no restaurants near Wil.i.am at this time. Me: forget it. Cortana: I do not know what you mean by "forget it" Me:
It makes a certain amount of sense to use the name and image of Cortana. They already own the rights. It's a fairly unique name, avoiding most issues with real people's names. And the character from Halo already has a lot of positive emotion associated with it.
But they also only have one shot to get this right. If they pull a Zune, Vista, or Windows 8 with this one they will destroy a lot more than the ability to use the name without triggering negative emotions, I suspect they'll also damage the Halo franchise, and possibly everything associated with it, like Xbox—the one real bright spot at Microsoft right now.
This all makes me wonder if anyone is taking advantage of IBM's developments in Watson.
It makes a certain amount of sense to use the name and image of Cortana. They already own the rights. It's a fairly unique name, avoiding most issues with real people's names. And the character from Halo already has a lot of positive emotion associated with it.
But they also only have one shot to get this right. If they pull a Zune, Vista, or Windows 8 with this one they will destroy a lot more than the ability to use the name without triggering negative emotions, I suspect they'll also damage the Halo franchise, and possibly everything associated with it, like Xbox—the one real bright spot at Microsoft right now.
This all makes me wonder if anyone is taking advantage of IBM's developments in Watson.
Even if it's a flop, there'll still probably be a couple of interesting aspects worth Apple / Google taking note of.
Who names stuff at Microsoft? Their names are always terrible.
Actually I believe Bungie picked Cortana's name. Bungie was the initial creator of the Halo universe. Of course Microsoft recognized something good and bought Bungie.
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Cortana will visually fit right in with the BSOD. Will we rename Windows malware to The Flood? Who am I kidding...Windows is The Flood.
You won't delete files anymore, you'll take a gravity hammer to them.
Microsoft is consistently terrible at naming their products/services.
Cortana sounds better than Microsoft Voice Assistant for Windows Phone.
Now THAT would be cool!
Why is nobody calling their A.I. Hal?
That's insulting!
Remember:
Women have MANY faults,
Men have only TWO.
Everything they say,
And everything they do.
LOL!
I'm too scared to even consider what happens if you try and do a secure delete.
LOL "frothing at the mouth"? Look who's talking.
"Cortana" sounds like a synthetic shoe material, or maybe a new model of car, not a lovable female voice assistant.
But then she's just conceived of as a "service-enabled shell."
They're Zuned, . . . Or Longhorned.
Magical, LOL. If she says "Contact your system administrator" then nothing has changed.
Clippy reincarnated!
"Looks like you're trying to make a call, would you like some help with that?"
Microsoft is consistently terrible at naming their products/services.
Someone put this up the other day. It bears repeating:
You all get ten points from me.
[If it were possible for me to award them.]
For me Microsoft is an endless source of wonder, shock, disbelief, and entertainment.
He's already banned AFAIK. Quoting him/her now just makes more clean-up work for mods, or worse lets those offensive posts live on if your quote goes unnoticed.
Me: Show me google search results for restaurants near me:
Cortana: Here are your Bing! search results for restaurants near Redmond, WA
Me: Uh, no, I asked for GOOGLE results for restaurants near ME.
Cortana: Here are Bing! search results for restaurants in MAINE.
ME: Uh, no, GOOGLE search for restaurants near where I am now.
Cortana: There are no restaurants near Wil.i.am at this time.
Me: forget it.
Cortana: I do not know what you mean by "forget it"
Me:
It makes a certain amount of sense to use the name and image of Cortana. They already own the rights. It's a fairly unique name, avoiding most issues with real people's names. And the character from Halo already has a lot of positive emotion associated with it.
But they also only have one shot to get this right. If they pull a Zune, Vista, or Windows 8 with this one they will destroy a lot more than the ability to use the name without triggering negative emotions, I suspect they'll also damage the Halo franchise, and possibly everything associated with it, like Xbox—the one real bright spot at Microsoft right now.
This all makes me wonder if anyone is taking advantage of IBM's developments in Watson.
Voice of Uma Thurman, too?
btw: "almost magical" doesn't cut it
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It makes a certain amount of sense to use the name and image of Cortana. They already own the rights. It's a fairly unique name, avoiding most issues with real people's names. And the character from Halo already has a lot of positive emotion associated with it.
But they also only have one shot to get this right. If they pull a Zune, Vista, or Windows 8 with this one they will destroy a lot more than the ability to use the name without triggering negative emotions, I suspect they'll also damage the Halo franchise, and possibly everything associated with it, like Xbox—the one real bright spot at Microsoft right now.
This all makes me wonder if anyone is taking advantage of IBM's developments in Watson.
Even if it's a flop, there'll still probably be a couple of interesting aspects worth Apple / Google taking note of.
I got to say, the frothing-at-the-mouth-fanboism on this site never gets old...
Even more funny, once one realizes that most of the fan"bois" here are middle aged men...
LOL
Keep it going Apple-tards!
Who needs The Onion when one has Apple Insider?
So you are complaining about Apple fans on a site called AppleInsider......and you are on this site because?......
I'm going to a blue bulb and my GF a wig just like that photo!
Best.
Who names stuff at Microsoft? Their names are always terrible.
Actually I believe Bungie picked Cortana's name. Bungie was the initial creator of the Halo universe. Of course Microsoft recognized something good and bought Bungie.