Cortana, play some music.
Cortana, play Billy Joel.
So can your keyboard and mouse. All without your data being harvested and sold to marketers.
Cortana, send a text to Nill.
Is that why you sent me so many text messages the other day. Use email like the Internet founders intended. It literally better than text in every way.
Cortana, wake me up at 6:00
Cortana, remind me to call the landscaper when I get home.
Cortana, next time i talk to Nill, remind me to ask him if he is going to The GXL.
All of these things are can be entered in via keyboard quicker and with more info attached.
I've read the privacy statement, and it looks good to me.
And you trust Microsoft? They've proven time and time again to treat their users like children who don't know what's good for them.
I just reinstalled two Windows 7 machines, Windows 10 several times, downloaded updates for all of them, installed Office 365 for three work computers and you know what I noticed as someone not conditioned to the Microsoft experience?
What the hell is with the progress bars? The first installs weren't bad because all the data was on USB thumb drives, but getting update for Windows 7 was ridiculous. It just sits there telling you that it's working, but you have no idea if it's locked up at some step. It has to sit there for hours "Checking." I think it downloaded them in the background, but I had to go to sleep and finished the process when I woke up. If it were downloading, it should have a download rate and eta like every other OS does.
Installing Office 365 was an even bigger pain in the ass. At first, I thought it was going to be between 300mb and 500mb, so I downloaded the standard installer and ran it on three different machines at the same time. Yeah, because Microsoft doesn't like file download progress bars, file sizes, download rates or ETA, I wasted a day before I realized that it wasn't going to work that way on my connection. Next time, I downloaded the multi-gig offline installer and ran them on two of the machines. It still seemed to be taking too long, so I stepped away for an hour to do something at work. Came back and it didn't make much progress. Came back a few hours later and it had stalled at 90%. I had to google a solution and force quit a stock Microsoft process on both the freshly installed system and the "lived in" one for it actually finish. This was a common enough problem for the solution to come up in the first few hits from google, but fixing it would be admitting what ever feature the process was for was a mistake.
How about installing Windows 10 on a GPT drive so I can have UEFI features? I had to download the ISO via the Media Creation Tool, but you would think that tool could make an installer compatible with a five year old standard? Nope! I had to use the third party tool, Rufus to make it, then launch the command line from the installer to format the destination drive as GPT, than I could install it. Even Linux lets me do that via the GUI! But why would anyone want to multi-boot when you have glorious Windows! You can do this with Windows 7, but you actually need a preexisting Windows GPT install to grab a specific file from and rearrange some files. I'll give them some slack here, just because GPT and UEFI didn't exist when Windows 7 came out, but the Media Creation Tool could have side loaded that if it wanted to actually support industry standards.
Oh yeah, I almost forget. If you ever have Linux, OS X or any other OS on a machine and you install Windows later, make sure to unplug the other drives or Windows will overwrite the boot-loaders on those and any drive attached to the computer because it knows you really don't want to multi-boot. If you have them installed to a different partition, have the tools ready to repair that. All Linux installers have that as default because of how common a problem it is.
In the past month, I've relearned about all my hatred for Microsoft and their shitty UI choices and treatment of users.
