72% of Windows 10 Users use Cortana Less than Once a Month

Used Cortana a couple of times when I initially installed Windows 10 when it was released. Didn't particularly care for it and haven't used Cortana since.
 
B00nie said:
People use Cortana less than once a month - and 99% of those are accidental uses. Fuck you Microsoft and your spying.
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Sad thing is this is one of the few places in Windows 10 where I don't look at it as spying. I mean come on. Amazon, Apple (I guess worthless Siri kinda goes here? ;) ), and Google all do it too in this instance. It's a digital assistant. So it makes a lot of sense for MS to try to keep up with the competition.

I love Google Now. I use it daily. I have two Google Home's in my house now. Love them. I use Google for many things like reminders, adding things to the shopping list, timers, alarms, and oh so much more. So I get why people who want to be invested in the MS ecosystem would use Cortana. It makes sense for those people just like Google makes sense for me.

My problem with Cortana is again, as with many bullshit things in Windows 10, there isn't a simple ON/OFF switch for those of us who don't want to be invested in the MS ecosystem in any way. Sure you can kinda disable Cortana but you can't fully just turn the bitch off. Cortana is still sitting there running in the background no matter what.
 
Yeah. The not being able to shut shit down is bothersome. The only time I dealt with cortana was to shut it off whenever it tries to launch. I believe in earlier builds of win 10 it was more aggressive about trying to launch and "help".
 
I hate windows (and tech in general's) approach to not letting us disable or uninstall things. I don't want a cortana and xbox app on my operating system. Why am I forced to have these things? I especially hate having her live on my taskbar, but at least I could remove her from that.
 
I've unpinned it from Start on my Home and Pro machines and set all the "turn off Cortana" settings I could locate in the Privacy area. I've turned Siri off on my Apple devices, as well. That done, I don't worry about it and figure life is too short to be overly concerned. In the future, if an update enables removal I'll remove it.
 
Vermillion said:
My problem with Cortana is again, as with many bullshit things in Windows 10, there isn't a simple ON/OFF switch for those of us who don't want to be invested in the MS ecosystem in any way. Sure you can kinda disable Cortana but you can't fully just turn the bitch off. Cortana is still sitting there running in the background no matter what.
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Not in the box but Winaero makes it simple. While I get people want it in the box controlling this stuff through 3rd party apps is simple. Also you don't necessarily have to be invested in the Microsoft ecosystem for Cortana to be useful, it integrates with other apps like Netflix and can control Windows.
 
heatlesssun said:
And how would you know? Apparently I'm the only on in this thread that uses routinely.
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I used to. I have issues, though. She doesn't work very well when you call her Alexa. And an iPhone doesn't respond to "Hey Cortana" no matter how mad you get. :)

Siri, Alexa, Cortana. You tend to get confused with so many side ho's. I have put in feedback that Cortana should integrate with home automation stuff, and they are expanding her to that area. Just might be too late (as usual).

Cortana used to be my #1 and I used her multiple times daily. Until Alexa. Now, it's almost redundant. If Cortana could integrate with SmartThings, Harmony Hub, Wink - I'd be good. Alexa will play my music, turn lights on and off, tell me news (flash briefing is excellent), stocks, simple lookups, timers, movie times, etc.. Cortana is some of that, but not quite there.

I prefer Cortana to Siri, though. Big time. And she's better than Alexa at some things, but lacks in a lot more. Maybe this next update could put a lot of focus on Cortana. I'd love it. I would love to put her to more use.
 
Ur_Mom said:
Siri, Alexa, Cortana. You tend to get confused with so many side ho's. I have put in feedback that Cortana should integrate with home automation stuff, and they are expanding her to that area. Just might be too late (as usual).
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Outside of mobile it very early in the game for this stuff though the tie into mobile could be the problem.

Ur_Mom said:
Cortana used to be my #1 and I used her multiple times daily. Until Alexa. Now, it's almost redundant. If Cortana could integrate with SmartThings, Harmony Hub, Wink - I'd be good. Alexa will play my music, turn lights on and off, tell me news (flash briefing is excellent), stocks, simple lookups, timers, movie times, etc.. Cortana is some of that, but not quite there.
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True, but when working in front of PC, which is my job, Cortana is the closest thing to me at the home office so it's more convenient then anything else.

Ur_Mom said:
I prefer Cortana to Siri, though. Big time. And she's better than Alexa at some things, but lacks in a lot more. Maybe this next update could put a lot of focus on Cortana. I'd love it. I would love to put her to more use.
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Agreed, it's really just of matter of leveraging Cortana in applications, the speech recognition of all these platforms is very good and similar, just a matter of using them.
 
B00nie said:
It's pretty fucken obvious heatless is in the minority in most of the things he does. VR, surface, windows fan boy...
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You forget Cortana user... we can add that now as well as we have evidence he's in this minority as well. I hope he is getting shill money though... it seems like a real missed opportunity for him if he isn't getting paid for all his hard work.
 
MikeRotch said:
The only time I've used Cortana is to "tell me a good joke".
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And did she?


"Stop me if you've heard this one. So, Master Chief walks into a bar..."


Speaking of Master Chief, he should be the new "Clippy" and his helmet should pop out any time it thinks you might want to open an Office document. :p (except, he doesn't talk does he?) Can't remember, only really played the first Halo because I worked on the PC version...
 
Vermillion said:
My problem with Cortana is again, as with many bullshit things in Windows 10, there isn't a simple ON/OFF switch for those of us who don't want to be invested in the MS ecosystem in any way. Sure you can kinda disable Cortana but you can't fully just turn the bitch off. Cortana is still sitting there running in the background no matter what.
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The people at Microsoft are hoping that if they are persistent enough you'll just give up and start using it because it is there, because they want to force you into using their ecosystem, or at least make it inconvenient not to, so you just surrender and do it.

Personally, I have no interest in an ecosystem, ANY ecosystem. I just want a goddamned standalone operating system. Is that too much to ask? It shouldn't be.
 
I use Contana and Bing exclusively. However, I mostly just use Cortana on my phone and XBox One though.
 
Ferdjones said:
Personally, if it were possible to use Cortana less than never, I would do that. Since I can't figure out how to do that, I'll stick with never having used it (in fact, 99.999% of the time the microphone on my headphones is muted, so I couldn't talk to it if I wanted to) and most likely not using it in the future. If I had an assistant thingie on my phone, it is SLIGHTLY possible I would use it, though the chance of that happening approaches 0. I don't see the point, but I'm becoming an old phart, so what do I know?
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Precisely the reasoning behind why the Back to the Future II fictional voice controls were never going to come to pass that quickly. I feel technological advancements are held back by people far more than the tech itself.
 
I have disabled it on every install I have done. Have not even tried it. Then again I dont use Siri either on my phone.
 
SvenBent said:
Waitig for manofgoat to come in and tell us how we are all wrong not to submit to ms digital parenting even if its damaging our systems....
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Ah, now I understand why I put you on ignore, because you are being a jerk towards me, thanks for the reminder. (Hey, it is just my opinion.)
 
bobdabilder said:
At least you don't try to hide being a fanboi shill.
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Hell, I would rather be accused of being a shill than a constant hater but then again, that is just me. :D Cool thing is, you all do not control my thinking and that is the way I like it. Using something because it works well, not because it is the cool thing to do.
 
M76 said:
Everything takes much longer if you need to verbalize it. Especially if the speech recognition misunderstands it.
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This.

Whether on my phone or on my computer, I find it to be much faster and easier to just type what I need, because, firstly, I type faster than I speak, and secondly, correcting voice recognition mistakes takes forever.

I can see where it might be useful when driving or something like that, but I do't really feel the need to search things on google while driving.

That, and I NEVER use my desktop or my laptop in the car.
 
gxp500 said:
Even bing knows whats up, top 5 searches are how to disable microsoft products.

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Lol.


Who bings how to disable bing? :p
 
Thats the thing, it sux. And so does windows 10.
ManofGod said:
Hell, I would rather be accused of being a shill than a constant hater but then again, that is just me. :D Cool thing is, you all do not control my thinking and that is the way I like it. Using something because it works well, not because it is the cool thing to do.
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