JorgeA Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Here's Dedoimedo's take on Cortana. Funny, biting, and brutally honest but fair, as usual. Check out Cortana's search result for "regedit" with a Firefox icon attached. --JorgeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelC Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Until then, any attempt by companies to put me in the mediocrity box with their lowest common denominator fascistic mantras and Silicon Valley attitude slash ignorance that sees people as walking wallets slowly moving from one outlet to another food chain restaurant while fearing acronyms and stockpiling for the upcoming zombie apocalypse will be met with fierce resistance. -Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TELVM Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 ... the future direction of operating systems and somewhat forced integration of moronity and remote computation into your everyday devices. Internet of Things (IoT) becoming Idiots of Tomorrow (IoT) ... ^ Epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeA Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 One item stood out from this otherwise routine post: No new Windows 10 Preview build for PC before the last week of February Users of the PC preview can rest easy knowing that they have not been forgotten, development will continue until the release of the final build in the second half of 2015, though at this point future updates will mostly consist of bug fixes and stability tweaks rather than new features.[emphasis added] Does that mean that "new features" (new to Windows 10) such as a fully functional and customizable Start Menu and an option to use Aero Glass will not be added to Windows 10? And to think that so many Microsoft apologists kept telling us to "calm down, it's only a beta" -- until it got to be too late to put in the features we demand. --JorgeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeA Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Fantastic observation down in the comments section for the following post: Transparent Live tiles will soon make their way to Windows 10 for phones technical preview Transparent tiles would basically be too similar to icons, even for the averge wp user, to keep pretending they are something new and different. There is a graphic icon, a text, a square click area (exactly as desktop icons were made look like since Vista onwards, but option/hack was there since Win3.11), and countless underlying mechanisms to make the icon "dynamic" and "informative", as both text and graphic can be changed on the fly (with small to nil resource usage) since the very beginning of Windows - but was strongly suggested to limit it by design to notification area icons to avoid "information overload", exactly the mess that occour in Metro, and the first reason it was named the least user friendly in 2013 (Google or Bing for it). Personally, I've always thought that Metro Tiles were little more than an ugly sister to the traditional desktop icons, and that Live Tiles were little more than refurbished and remarketed Windows Gadgets -- but with an emphasis on crudity of appearance. Maybe someone with the proper background can expand for us on the commenter's explanation. --JorgeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelC Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Users of the PC preview can rest easy knowing that they have not been forgotten, development will continue until the release of the final build in the second half of 2015, though at this point future updates will mostly consist of bug fixes and stability tweaks rather than new features.[emphasis added] Wow, that's VERY interesting news! I guess that means they're not likely to delete any more useful stuff... This is good news, though to be honest I was still expecting a bunch of new gee whiz stuff. But it makes sense - a full release requires quite a bit of lead time for testing and packaging. If this truly is the case maybe Windows 10 won't be a bust. I find I can use build 9926 for my work. It also means Big Muscle's Aero Glass product will probably work with the final release. So what is Windows 10 in light of this news? Metro apps in Windows (but just as useless as they were full-screen).A re-implementation of the Start Menu in a form worse than all that have come before.Re-implementation of some of the control panel, with attendant loss of functionality.An push through useless things like Cortana to get the masses to sign up for cloud integration. Positives:Classic Shell still works.Aero Glass can be made to work.Old applications that were iffy under Windows 8.1 seem to work better (I tested Office 2003, for example). -Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinifera Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 don't call them apps to me its just implementation of WPF within IE + JS what kind of stupid app's are those that stop working when you turn off UAC or remove IE ?thats not app to me ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelC Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 (edited) Seems an appropriate acronym to me... Count the number of letters. App - 3, application - 11. 3/11 is about 27 percent, which pretty much describes their degree of usefulness vs. a real application. APP - "Almost Passably Pretty"Application - What you use to develop Apps or do anything useful. -Noel Edited February 15, 2015 by NoelC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TELVM Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Allow me to share this, I believe many habituals to this thread will find it interesting and humorous. After watching the world famous Chris Pirillo's Dad first testing on Windows 8 video, this aussie kid grabbed his mum and subjected her to a similar torment : As you would expect the lady was seriously traumatized, but survived the ordeal. Since then mum has tested , , , , , , and . And even , , and . Here her first impressions on Windows 10 Build 9841: How many teenagers do you know that tinker with PC OS's way older than them just for the pleasure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinifera Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 chris is total baboon & moronhis stupid acting and talking is so retarded that ... wait he would be perfect for MS live demonstrations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Formfiller Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 (edited) I just noticed how stupid it is to call the voice recognition software "Cortana". Far more intuitive would be if this thing would be nameless and you would call it up by saying "Hi, Windows". You're interacting with your computer, the OS is called Windows (in all forms). Everyone calls it Windows, it's well known brand name. Why would you activate the voice recognition with "Cortana"? Why is referencing to itself as "Cortana"? Who knows that s***? It's like activating the current voice recognition software in Windows 7 by speaking "Hi Voice Recognition Software 1.0!" into the micro. The "Siri" name kinda worked because almost no one knows the name of the iPhone OS outside of the tech sphere, the phone keeping saying "iPhone has this and that" doesn't sound that well and the product lines are called differently at Appe (Mac, iPhone, iPad) so they needed a common theme through Siri. With "Windows" though it's completely different, phonetically and branding-wise. Calling it Cortana is Apple envy yet again. The naming doesn't make sense. Edited February 17, 2015 by Formfiller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Add - just like it is rumoured about car names - some research should be done on what happens in other languages... ... and no, I will not post what Cortana rhymes with in Italian , but let's say that it has some common points with a Mazda model name:unfit for Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countrieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Laputa jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinifera Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 cortana is hilarious to me coz in my country it comes close to name for dick and condom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Someone make a mod so you can change Cortana to some other name. I would prefer Bob. Microsoft Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelC Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Far more intuitive would be if this thing would be nameless and you would call it up by saying "Hi, Windows". You're interacting with your computer, the OS is called Windows (in all forms). Everyone calls it Windows, it's well known brand name. Why would you activate the voice recognition with "Cortana"? Why is referencing to itself as "Cortana"? Who knows that s***? As mentioned elsewhere (maybe it was this thread, I don't recall), it's all about sex. Sex sells. I'm surprised Microsoft's CEO isn't being raked over the coals about the WIndows assistant being the same nude-but-digitally-body-painted character as is found in their Halo game. And let's not forget that Apple invented theirs with the name Siri. Microsoft can't let Apple do anything without trying to do it too. It's like one of the most important industries on the planet is being run by 11 year olds. -Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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