Microsoft to world: We've got open source machine learning too Microsoft's decided that it, too, wants to open source some of its machine learning space, publishing its Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit (DMTK) on Github. Google released some of its code last week. Redmond's (co-incidental?) response is pretty basic: there's a framework, and two algorithms, but Microsoft Research …
I'm in France using an English configured Windows 10 pc and my work Windows Phone.
Cortana refuses to run, because it can't do English when I am in France. But when it sees my GPS location as in England all works correctly. Very very short sighted Microsoft, at least Siri works here even when giving directions you have to think twice as to how she mangled the French words in English.
Windows 10 isn't that bad to be honest but I'll wait for the first service pack before upgrading my home machines.
Same issue on a win10 laptop using English language in Japan. I could get Cortana to work if I change all my settings to British English and location to UK but that would bork pretty much everything BUT Cortana.
Microsoft seems to be pretty much self defeating these days, if I could get away with scrubbing the damn thing and just installing Linux I would do so in a heartbeat.
Cortana refuses to run, because it can't do English when I am in France. But when it sees my GPS location as in England all works correctly. Very very short sighted Microsoft
Not that I'm keen to defend Microsoft, but I would flag that as a general trend with software that originates from the US: the ability to recognise not only that there are other countries out there, but also that location & desired operating language are not that firmly associated. It's almost as if the idea that people travel between different countries just doesn't come up in their puny heads.
Very very short sighted Microsoft, at least Siri works here even when giving directions you have to think twice as to how she mangled the French words in English.
I recall that Siri had a similar problem in the beginning. What was all that "I can only offer that service in the United States" business about, for example?
To be honest, I find that Merkan businesses have a very weird idea about how things hook up in Europe, either thinking that we are a "United States" where all of us merrily work together on one level or we are a bunch of countries that speak different languages and can never agree on anything. That's when they can actually point to where Europe actually is, of course!
Cortana is available only in some regions.
I believe this is due to commercial agreement reasons, rather than a technical limit.
Set your Region to US, not language, not location. It will work, I use it in Romania.
Well, assuming you CAN speak English, which isn't clearly true for French people thinking "software" should be called "logiciel" . :((
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