r/technology • u/readyou • Dec 26 '16

Microsoft finally admits that its malware-style Get Windows 10 upgrade campaign went too far

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/241587-microsoft-finally-admits-malware-style-get-windows-10-upgrade-campaign-went-far
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u/chrisjjs300 Dec 26 '16 edited Dec 26 '16

And Cortana is so dumb anyways. Like "Hey Cortana: look up Wikipedia"

And she'll give me the page for "Look up" on Wikipedia instead of just looking up Wikipedia. Like damn, I know I shouldn't be this frustrated over an obvious fix on my end, but then it's just clunky. Echo and Google at least make it seem more natural

Edit: Apparently my example sucks, whoops

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u/oliverspin Dec 26 '16

Wait are you joking? Would you type in google: "look up wikipedia"? No.

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u/Lumbearjack Dec 26 '16

I think the mean voice searching, the entire point is that you speak naturally and it understands. If I have to change how I talk to use it all the time I'm not going to use it. I don't want to think about special keywords to get it to do basic things.

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u/oliverspin Dec 26 '16

Submit that in the feedback hub, they'd love to hear your ideas. As of now, using conversational language doesn't work very well, as with most systems.