Karlston Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 Cortana gets a significant update for Windows 10 20H1 PCs Microsoft has been slowly cutting back on the features supported by their voice assistant, Cortana, including removing its integration from Android handsets and taking away support for basic features such as setting timers. It seems the company has now started the phase of building it back up again, with ALumia reporting that Microsoft has released a significant update for Cortana Beta, taking it to version 2.1912.18729.0, which introduces a number of new features. These include: Suggested Tasks: Although at the moment there is an empty section, the activities are in turn divided into three sub-categories (Found, Active and History). WakeWord : Microsoft has introduced the possibility to start Cortana simply by saying its name (as was already possible with the old Cortana app). The feature does not appear to offer the ability to set your own wakeword yet. Redesigned settings: Microsoft has significantly improved the settings of Cortana (Beta), introducing a more elegant and responsive hamburger menu; Support for old versions of Windows 10 has been eliminated: You can now download Cortana (Beta) only on Windows 10 PCs with a build 19023 or higher on board; Corrections and improvements Some of the features can be seen illustrated in ALumia’s screenshots above. Currently, Cortana only supports US-English, with Microsoft set to withdraw from most of the world. It remains to be seen if the space will be filled by competitors such as Amazon’s Alexa or if Microsoft will claw its way back up to relevance again. Source: Cortana gets a significant update for Windows 10 20H1 PCs (MSPoweruser) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 2 hours ago, Karlston said: if Microsoft will claw its way back up to relevance again. Cortana has never been relevant just lots of Microsoft PR about it was all, but it's unwanted, most people who use windows disable it . they never had the resources to make it understand nothing but U.S English . It's crap that Microsoft put in Windows to make like they are competing with consumer products to look cool but once they made Windows 10 they made the home version crippleware and worthless .There really a enterprise software company now they stop caring about stuff like Cortana when they stop caring about consumers and that was when the bottom fell out of Windows phone. In order to care about consumer features they have to be able to sell lots of copies to consumers with billions of people buying IOS and Android devices they lost almost any relevance they had with consumers except for PC gamers when Windows phone folded . People use streaming boxes and smart phones and some gamers use consoles , other desktop OS and smartphones to game . Gameing alone wont sell many copies of windows. They may be updating it again planing to put it in Windows 10x . But Windows 10x is like Windows 10 phones it is a risk to make a new OS that is depended on Microsoft hardware it may never take off and never sale good. Windows 10x will be Microsoft's next stab at consumers . they going to put Win 32 apps in containers and i use Linux and i know all about using containers. It is great when there is no native app in ppa or deb but it is slower to load than native apps ,so using containers have caveats Microsoft said a lot about Windows 10 and when Windows phone folded most of it was retracted from there plains so i dont believe nothing they say tell i see it because they have no crystal ball . And even if you see it dont mean they wont remove it latter on . because Windows upgrades are not just upgrades they downgrades too because they removed stuff on every upgrade. If they was still really a relevant consumer company they would be up for anti trust like Apple , Amazon and Google is them not caring about making products consumers want saved them this time .Microsoft is not even in the same category as the rest of big tech called FAANG is there recognized as enterprise software now like IBM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 The Cortana looks better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shorty6100 Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 It may look better, but does not work better, or at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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