neat additions to her personality
Hopefully the non psychotic kind
Microsoft will be fine-tuning its virtual assistant Cortana in its first update to Windows Phone 8.1. The Siri rival is predicted to arrive on UK users' smartphones over the next few months. The preview pack for developers is already out, of course. Youtube Video Cortana will be coming to folks in Blighty and China as a beta …
Who read the headline and thought the UK was getting Cortana and China was having to make do with Clippy or that Dog thing?
On that subject - if Clippy had been a fit bird would it have been more successful?
Obligatory Clippy hate page.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/clippy-finally-messes-with-the-wrong-word-doc/
The update hasn't been fully released yet on all devices or in all countries, so no, you probably haven't got the update, yet.
But you should I believe - I'm looking forward to it for my Lumia 1020 - I actually quite like Windows Phone 8 and the improvement/additions list for 8.1 sound good to me.
You can check here: http://www.nokia.com/global/support/software-update/wp8-software-update/availability-in-europe/
If your phone has not received the update yet - sit tight, it will come along soon!
The low end devices with 512MB RAM should get virtually all the features. The only one I heard of that might not make it to those handsets are the new 'live lock screen' functions.
Just sign up for the "developer preview". You don't have to be a dev and it's free, and it's not a beta. The rumour is that Microsoft implemented it because they were pissed off with carriers being so damn slow to roll out updates so created a way for users to bypass the carriers. Regardless of whether that's true about their reasons, the result is that they have created a way for users to bypass the carriers. So yay.
I've had 8.1 on my 1020 for months now. A couple of downsides, but mostly up. The Swype-like typing and the predictive text are both astoundingly good.
"I know some people round here just HATE Microsoft, but seriously: a downvote for saying "If you want the update, here's a way of getting it"? It's psychotic."
Develop a thick skin. I've lost count of the number of negative votes I've gotten for making factual statements that the reader simply didn't like.
Nokia has web page listing 520 and 920 (among many others) that will receive the update, and also the availability status per region/country/operator:
"Windows Phone 8 compatible phone models
Nokia Lumia 520, 520T, 521, 525, 526, 530, 530 Dual SIM, 620, 625, 630, 630 Dual SIM, 635, 720, 720T, 810, 820, 822, 920, 920T, 925, 925T, 928, 930, Icon, 1020, 1320 and 1520."
All current Windows Phone 8.0 devices will get the 8.1 update. You can check whether it's supposed to be available for your phone here: http://www.nokia.com/global/support/software-update/wp8-software-update/availability-in-europe/
If it isn't yet, sit tight - it will get to you soon!
http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/1998/bastard98-08.php
Drunken Scotsman.
That is all...
...that in that advert, siri is much more impressive than cortana? She's able to recognise the user's request, recognise cortana's reply, recognise that cortana's reply comes from a second speaker *and* that this speaker is a phone, is aware of her own limitations, and at the very end forms an opinion about what she's heard.
Only Microsoft would try to make their glorified note taking / calendar update software look good by putting it next to a mockup of something behaving like strong AI.
As well as the Cortana updates, the Windows Phone package is going to include the ability to group apps into Live Folders on the Start Screen, improvements to the Xbox Music app and SMS merging.
It had fucking better have improvements to the Xbox Music app. I'm a big fan of Windows Phone in general, and 8.1 is broadly excellent, but the move from Music to Xbox Music is an unmitigated disaster.
Agree so hard. Xbox Music is pretty much the worst media player I've ever used. Slow as balls, still has metadata issues, doesn't show key info (track number/lengths, year), and they made it uglier since WP8 too.
The pre-Amber WP8 version had more exciting problems, so at least it had that. Mine repeatedly re-indexed the same files, so an album would have each song up to 16 times. According to the phone, I had 200GB of music on a 32GB card!
The current one just has boring problems. Be nice if MS released a finished product once in a while.