[OFFICIAL] Windows 10 Insider Program

[Guest]

That Cortana integration will save me so much time, no more opening a new tab to search for something I've seen on a page, that Cortana fly out window is great.

 

Select text - right click - search with Bing?

CTRL + T + ? + lalalalala?

 

Save time how?

[PGHammer]

Have you used Cortana (in short, compared it DIRECTLY to Google Search)?

 

Cortana is a direct competitor to Google Now (which IS an augmented Google Search - however, Cortana (unlike Google Now) did NOT sacrifice old-school typing/keyboarding in search terms.

 

Comparing the two is easy - fire up the Android emulator of your choice in the Technical Preview.

 

Unlike Google Now, Cortana is still usable where voice-input is unusable (noisy room, etc.) - for that reason alone, Cortana wins - and that is just on phones and tablets.

 

The very fact that Cortana is available where Google Now is not (and is not gimped compared to any other PC-based search product - let alone that of Google) and requires exactly zero new hardware (while it can leverage voice, it works just fine without it) makes me really wonder what the REAL issue you have is with Cortana.  (Is it that it comes from the phone-tablet side of things?  What would you have said if Google Now were ever brought to PCs?  Google still could - via Chrome.)

 

I have no issue with Cortana, and find it quite usable.  I have no real issue with Google Now, either (except that it IS gimped compared to Cortana - for the straightforward reason that it doesn't accept keyboard input).  So what is the REAL beef with Cortana?

[PGHammer]

Because you can "speak" your search? Click - speak - Enter key.

 

Cortana requires no new hardware - at all.  If you can use Skype, you can use Cortana.

 

If anything, leveraging Cortana requires LESS hardware than Google Now - which hasn't come to PCs yet.  You don't NEED a mic to use Cortana - I have one, but don't have it connected to my PC.  (Personal choice.)

[George P Global Moderator]

Select text - right click - search with Bing?

CTRL + T + ? + lalalalala?

 

Save time how?

Man, some of you just love to question everything. When I search I tend to have to jump between tabs, going back and forth, just having the Cortana side window now, not even needing to jump between tabs anymore is a time savor. It's not about how many mouse clicks or kb presses it take to start the search. 

[PGHammer]

It has to be linked to an Office365 account - not necessarily a paying one.  I started a 180-day trial of Office365 specifically FOR this beta (you can apply at http://office365.com), and that works a treat.  As long as they start Office 2016 ISO testing before my O365 account drops dead, the effect (on me) is none.  (I'm using the same e-mail accounts I would be using with Office 2016 - the same ones I used with Office 2013.)

[Brandon H Supervisor]

Because you can "speak" your search? Click - speak - Enter key.

 

Cortana requires no new hardware - at all.  If you can use Skype, you can use Cortana.

 

If anything, leveraging Cortana requires LESS hardware than Google Now - which hasn't come to PCs yet.  You don't NEED a mic to use Cortana - I have one, but don't have it connected to my PC.  (Personal choice.)

not completely true. google now is in chrome. but I get your point still

[Guest]

Man, some of you just love to question everything. When I search I tend to have to jump between tabs, going back and forth, just having the Cortana side window now, not even needing to jump between tabs anymore is a time savor. It's not about how many mouse clicks or kb presses it take to start the search. 

 

Okay, sorry if it seemed that way. I am not trying to question, but understand your thought process.

[PGHammer]

I knew Google Now COULD come to PCs - I was referring to the Android implementation (which doesn't support Android's virtual keyboard - or any other keyboard interface, for that matter).  However, the lack of keyboard-input support is a decided minus - which Cortana doesn't have.  Keyboard input actually WORKS with Cortana.

 

Notice that it is NOT a computer-specific issue, either - virtual keyboards exist on all the devices we use.  (Tablets, smartphones, feature-phones - even landline phones. No - I'm not kidding on the latter, either, so get your jaw off the floor!)  I'm actually EXPECTING Google and Microsoft (at minimum) to take their battle to landline phones at some point (not necessarily in the next five or ten years, but definitely within the next twenty years).

[freak180]

Okay, sorry if it seemed that way. I am not trying to question, but understand your thought process.

Maybe its best to mind your own business and not get under people's skin perhaps? 

[MikeM97]

I don't mean to be rude but Windows 10 won't change the things that much [ at least not in something that I'll find good ] .

[HawkMan]

I don't mean to be rude but Windows 10 won't change the things that much [ at least not in something that I'll find good ] .

 

what are you even talking about...

[Guest]

Maybe its best to mind your own business and not get under people's skin perhaps? 

 

What? Are you cereal?

[MikeM97]

what are you even talking about...

 

Windows 10 isn't so innovative as most of us would expect from Microsoft .

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Wait, wut?

[MikeM97]

You know it ... Despite its UI & UX there's nothing actually new for us ... Another Kernel which makes even more instability than Windows 8.1 had ... a newer build number ... and here we go ,  a '' new '' Windows ?

Huh , Microsoft's kidding with us , right ?

[indospot Veteran]

It seems to me that you have no idea what you're saying. The OS isn't even done yet...

[George P Global Moderator]

There's more going on than people see with 10, build will shine more light on it but if you bother to look deeper you'll find lots of things already, and they're not finished yet.

[MikeM97]

It seems to me that you have no idea what you're saying. The OS isn't even done yet...

 

Yes , it might not be RTM yet , but I saw some things that I bet Microsoft won't struggle to fix not even when it will be 100% done .

[TAZMINATOR]

You know it ... Despite its UI & UX there's nothing actually new for us ... Another Kernel which makes even more instability than Windows 8.1 had ... a newer build number ... and here we go ,  a '' new '' Windows ?

Huh , Microsoft's kidding with us , right ?

 

Huh?  Stay off the glue, dude. 

 

The OS isn't even finished. MS has work to do on it before RTM which it may be released in June. Once RTM build is released, then you go ahead and review or complain about it.

[MikeM97]

Yes , it might not be RTM yet , but I saw some things that I bet Microsoft won't struggle to fix not even when it will be 100% done .

 

Otherwise , those bugs that I saw won't be fixed in June either .

[indospot Veteran]

PLus he's not even being very clear about what's wrong with the OS. I'd say we have plenty of new things with Windows 10.

[MikeM97]

I was clear enough if you have the needed patience to read ...

 

You know it ... Despite its UI & UX there's nothing actually new for us ... Another Kernel which makes even more instability than Windows 8.1 had ... a newer build number ... and here we go ,  a '' new '' Windows ?

Huh , Microsoft's kidding with us , right ?

 

Plus , this OS likes to stop users from having access to the other MS products as well :  https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1248616-older-windows-setups-would-work-on-windows-81/#entry596769054 [ latest post ] .

[nosense]

Otherwise , those bugs that I saw won't be fixed in June either .

Lmao.......Ton's of people are testing the TP build and have been gaving feed back about bugs and features.

[MikeM97]

I gave thousands of feedbacks too ... Do you think the would finally fix them ?

[nosense]

I was clear enough if you have the needed patience to read ...

 

 

Plus , this OS likes to stop users from having access to the other MS products as well :  https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1248616-older-windows-setups-would-work-on-windows-81/#entry596769054 [ latest post ] .

So much fail in this post....