Microsoft's Master Chief calls time on Cortana as a standalone AI platform Culling Cortana, poking Phone users and feeding the UWP XAML developers – it's all in a week's work for Microsoft. For whom Nadella the Axeman cometh We noted last week that Microsoft's unloved assistant, Cortana, had been booted from desktop search in the latest Windows Insider build (how Microsoft avoids spanking its …
If Microsoft of all people (joking aside) cannot get this right then what can it get right? It has all the skills and the people to get this right but it is bowing out too early. They should have stuck at it. I have an Alexa but I also use Google assistant (voice and text). Both these platforms are at a very early stage and with a bit of effort (and focus!) Cortana could easily and should have competed with them. It is early days in this sphere and if MS bows out here then what the hell can it compete at? Ok, it has Windows, but it has got to be more than a one trick pony. They bowed out too early with a Java dev platform and other languages it didn't even try to make Visual Studio available for. They should be pushing VS for all types of development. Come on Microsoft - grow a pair!!
with respect to "a free tool that it hopes will let devs prototype UWP XAML for user interfaces"
One more CLIPPY clone and I think I'll *EXPLODE* [ok maybe it's not clippy but still... did they NOT see that one scene from Salmon Days when the BOFH started wrestling with Clippy screaming "I AM NOT! WRITING! A @#$%ING! LETTER! YOU STUPID @#$%ING PAPERCLIP!"]
The tool would HAVE to be FREE, because NO self-respecting developer would EVAR *PAY* for such an abomination!!!
UWP needs to be killed to death by burning it with FIRE.
It look like you're trying to write an angry post about Clippy, would you like some help with that?
Purism should have an open source (including hardware?) available in a few months:
https://puri.sm/posts/end-of-year-librem-5-update/
Looking forward to an escape to phone (infrastructure) freedom after being conned by Windows Phone 8.1/10, which I miss now and then, and my wife even more so.
One thing on my to-do list is to try Sailfish on a Sony Xperia X/XA. You can try it for free and if you like it, buy it for 50 euros.
There's also a community version which may be ported to other phone hardware but I haven't looked into that very much.
I am pretty sure that these smart speakers will all eventually die off in a few years when people realise that having a device in your home that is constantly listening to everything you say is not a great idea. So perhaps MS see this coming too and have decided to get out now rather than throwing load of money at trying to gain market share.
Indeed - happy brrt day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvIJvPj_pjE
That's the plane that is too expensive to keep in the force! The much cheaper F-35 will replace it at lower cost (in some other galaxy with different laws of physics, that is - oh yeah, the pentagon).
There's too much Windows code in it for that to happen.
Until Nadella will have crippled Windows 10 enough it will follow the fate of its mobile cousin.
It looks he has become fixated to piggyback someone else's efforts just to add some "services" atop them, linked to Azure. I'm sure in the long run it will be a loser strategy - MS won on platforms where it lead development and had an inherent intrinsic advantage because of that. Coming second or third won't help it, as it never helped its competitors. Maybe he thinks open source is flattening the field, but most products, even if based open source code, are far more proprietary than they look - especially the backend that is what really runs them.
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