Chapter 5
Hey, Cortana!
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting the Cortana backstory
Dealing with Cortana — you’re the product
Teaching Cortana to call you boss
Blurring Cortana’s memory
“Hey, Cortana!”
“Yes, Boss.”
“Get me a tall skinny latte.”
“I’ll bring it to you. Okay to charge your Amex four dollars and thirty seven cents?”
Cortana isn’t quite there yet. That was in my dream last night. In fact, if you try to order a tall skinny latte in Windows 10, you get the response in Figure 5-1.
FIGURE 5-1: Baristas don’t have to worry about their jobs. Yet.
Cortana’s good, but she isn’t that good.
Launched on Windows Phone, Cortana is Microsoft’s digital-assistant answer to Apple’s Siri and Google’s OK Google.
Cortana, however, is a bit more refined: She (and I’ll relentlessly refer to her as she; please forgive the anthropomorphism!) is tied into all Windows 10 searches. That’s both good and bad, as I discuss later in this chapter.
She’s also lots of fun.
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