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redeyes posted:If that is the case I have absolutely no objections. I mean, why copy apple's siri? I don't understand the question? Everyone is pushing for a more naturalistic way to interact with technology these days, to varying success. It's called progression.
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Why the gently caress can't Cortana control the OS at all? I'm on a Surface Pro 3 without a mouse and I find myself wanting to use voice control constantly. What I get instead are Bing searches for "run notepad" "bluetooth settings" and "type hello dot jpeg". I'm never going to use Cortana as a PDA, joke repository, and least of all a Bing search machine. I have no idea why OS control wasn't the first priority, even on 3% market share cell phone Also the soft key numpad is telephone style and not numpad style. Whoever designed this UX was a loving idiot
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Feb 15, 2015 22:39
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Roargasm posted:Why the gently caress can't Cortana control the OS at all? I'm on a Surface Pro 3 without a mouse and I find myself wanting to use voice control constantly. What I get instead are Bing searches for "run notepad" "bluetooth settings" and "type hello dot jpeg". I'm never going to use Cortana as a PDA, joke repository, and least of all a Bing search machine. I have no idea why OS control wasn't the first priority, even on 3% market share cell phone Programmatic and os controls are supposedly coming to Cortana but aren't in place yet. If you ask the right command like "open word" youll get the title of the thread as a response. Everything else is a bing search which sucks for now. Another improvement: the sticky keys hack has been patched in the pxe! In windows 10 pxe, all of the repair tools require account credentials to be run. No longer are the days of using the pxe for rampant access to a machine (unless you load up windows 8 recovery media via CD or USB in which case it works just like before).
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Feb 15, 2015 23:08
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m3monster posted:I have been running the tech preview since the first day it opened. Remarkably, I have not had any issues with game compatibility. The only issue I had related to games was that my ASUS Xonar DG sound card drivers wouldn't install properly and I had issues with the card causing Fallout 3 and New Vegas to crash and loop audio until I rebooted. However, I downloaded custom drivers for the card and haven't had any issues since. Can you link to said audio drivers? I have the same card, play New Vegas, and want to try the Technical Preview.
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Feb 16, 2015 00:02
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I want to know where the concept that Cortana was the personality of a teenage girl came from. Where did you see that? Who told you that's what it was? Where did that notion come from?
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Feb 16, 2015 00:09
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redeyes posted:I'd prefer if it wasn't a teenage girl. Just something neutral like HEY COMPUTER would be just fine. You're making it creepy.
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Feb 16, 2015 01:18
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I was thinking that it'd be cool if it could respond to the "Heeeeeyyyy, quick favor ....." phrasing that people use when they catch IT in the hallway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxby--kSf8c&t=26s
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Feb 16, 2015 01:31
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Doesn't cortana have a female voice on the windows phones and the commercials?
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Feb 16, 2015 04:18
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nothingtrend posted:Doesn't cortana have a female voice on the windows phones and the commercials? So does the computer in StarTrek: TNG, doesn't make it a teenage girl.
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Feb 16, 2015 04:24
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She's based on the mind of some doctor in the games or something. The one who created the main super soldier guys.
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Feb 16, 2015 04:43
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Factor Mystic posted:I want to know where the concept that Cortana was the personality of a teenage girl came from. Where did you see that? Who told you that's what it was? Where did that notion come from? I'm just going to guess tumblr.
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Feb 16, 2015 06:15
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Roargasm posted:Why the gently caress can't Cortana control the OS at all? I'm on a Surface Pro 3 without a mouse and I find myself wanting to use voice control constantly. What I get instead are Bing searches for "run notepad" "bluetooth settings" and "type hello dot jpeg". I'm never going to use Cortana as a PDA, joke repository, and least of all a Bing search machine. I have no idea why OS control wasn't the first priority, even on 3% market share cell phone Voice recognition that can control the mouse and run programmes and other such stuff has been a basic part of Windows since Vista. Don't need Cortana for that poo poo. I guess not a lot of people knew about it. It even works passably.
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Feb 16, 2015 12:04
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redeyes posted:Stop calling cortana a 'she' for fucks sake. I guess microsoft hit the nail on the head appealing to nerds that have no idea what a girl is. Having the voice recognition for windows 10 named after a teenage female character in their video game Halo is either genius or incredibly adolescent. In Halo, Cortana was an AI modeled after a clone of a 60+ year old female doctor, not a teenager.
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Feb 16, 2015 16:49
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Apok posted:In Halo, Cortana was an AI modeled after a clone of a 60+ year old female doctor, not a teenager. And the doctor was a genius, interesting, and a very strong character in the story. Not that it matters. It shouldn't bug anyone whether or not someone else decides to refer to an inanimate object/software as "he", "she", "it", "Computer", "Walrus", "Abe Lincoln", or whatever. Get over it.
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All I want voice control to be able to do is control a browser window while I have a game open on the other monitor.
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Feb 16, 2015 17:43
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Swartz posted:Can you link to said audio drivers? I have the same card, play New Vegas, and want to try the Technical Preview. I can, sorry I didn't see this sooner. http://maxedtech.com/asus-xonar-unified-drivers/ ALSO, you will want to make sure that the DX enhancement is turned off in the Xonar DG audio center as this is the individual setting which Fallout and other Bethesda games don't like. If you have any more questions let me know, if I can help, I will. Please note, these are custom drivers and while I use them and have no issues, I am not responsible if you don't like them or they cause issues.
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Feb 16, 2015 20:39
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What kind of an install footprint does W10 have at the moment? I have 7 installed on a 120 GB SSD, and it's taking up roughly half the drive between the OS and assorted users/documents directories. It's tax time and Newegg's got SSDs on deep discount, so I'm trying to decide between a 240 GB or a 480, with an eye to upgrading the OS when W10 comes out.
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Feb 16, 2015 21:00
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Bieeardo posted:What kind of an install footprint does W10 have at the moment? I have 7 installed on a 120 GB SSD, and it's taking up roughly half the drive between the OS and assorted users/documents directories. From my experience, it takes about the same amount of space as windows 7-8.1. I kind of hope that they can finesse the size down a bit before the final release, but we shall see.
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Feb 16, 2015 21:21
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This is probably a retarded question: if I install the 10 tech preview, will it overwrite my 8.1 OS install, or do I need to allow extra room for my new OS? Asking this because my SSD that my OS is on is pretty much maxed out. I'm not sure what in the world I could transfer to my HDD that would help it :/m3monster posted:I can, sorry I didn't see this sooner. No problem, thanks for the link and advice. Even though I'm on 8.1 those drivers sound interesting. I'll try them out and switch back to default if I don't care for them.
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Feb 16, 2015 22:35
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Bieeardo posted:What kind of an install footprint does W10 have at the moment? I have 7 installed on a 120 GB SSD, and it's taking up roughly half the drive between the OS and assorted users/documents directories. I'm running Windows 10 x64 on a desktop machine. With only a few programs installed, disk space taken up is just over 19GB.
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Feb 16, 2015 22:47
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Thanks, folks. I didn't think it'd be much bigger than 7, but wanted a better idea.
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Feb 16, 2015 23:37
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Swartz posted:This is probably a retarded question: if I install the 10 tech preview, will it overwrite my 8.1 OS install, or do I need to allow extra room for my new OS? Asking this because my SSD that my OS is on is pretty much maxed out. I'm not sure what in the world I could transfer to my HDD that would help it :/ It sits well with another OS gives you a fancy multi-choice window on boot just put it on another drive/partition then your main install.
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Feb 16, 2015 23:38
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I'm running a retail copy of Windows 7 Home Premium x64 on my main desktop so If I were to upgrade to Windows 10 would it be a retail copy of Windows 10 so I could move the licence to a new system if I wanted to?
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spasticColon posted:I'm running a retail copy of Windows 7 Home Premium x64 on my main desktop so If I were to upgrade to Windows 10 would it be a retail copy of Windows 10 so I could move the licence to a new system if I wanted to? They haven't clarified any of that kinda poo poo yet.
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Feb 17, 2015 05:14
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Is the preview's password field more responsive upon unlocking? About half the time I go to log in, it misses the first character I type because the lock screen is still sliding up.
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Feb 17, 2015 18:24
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Nope, it's just as (non-)responsive as 8.1 as of build 9926.
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HappyCapybaraFamily posted:Nope, it's just as (non-)responsive as 8.1 as of build 9926.
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Feb 17, 2015 21:57
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You can set it to have a PIN instead. When I start my computer, I hit a key on the keyboard and then type my PIN. Then it loads into my desktop.
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Feb 17, 2015 22:22
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I've already submitted it as feedback because drat it I'm not waiting half a second for your animation to finish 
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Ghostlight posted:I've already submitted it as feedback because drat it I'm not waiting half a second for your animation to finish
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Cojawfee posted:You can set it to have a PIN instead. When I start my computer, I hit a key on the keyboard and then type my PIN. Then it loads into my desktop. Which works fine on my desktop that has a number pad, but would kind of suck on my laptop. At least, it would take me a significant amount of time to get to where I could type my PIN on the number row as quickly as I can type my regular password. xylo posted:What was the title text? Ditto.
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socialsecurity posted:They haven't clarified any of that kinda poo poo yet. I'm also not convinced they are about it any more either.
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Feb 17, 2015 23:30
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The full text is "The login screen is currently very laggy - usually I can CTRL-ALT-DEL and start typing in my password immediately. Now if I do this it cuts off anything I type before the password box physically appears, rather than 'queuing' it up like it did previously" e: lol - searching "login" to pull that up brought up an amazing ticket: "can't login to my personal blogsite FOUR LINE GOOGLE URL" Ghostlight fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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drat, reading those support things must be brutal. Every idiot out there goes immediately to windows feedback any time anything doesn't work exactly as they think it should. Right after calling Time Warner or Comcast first because the problem is obviously on their end.
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It doesn't help the the feedback app is catastrophically slow and poorly designed.
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Cojawfee posted:drat, reading those support things must be brutal. Every idiot out there goes immediately to windows feedback any time anything doesn't work exactly as they think it should. Right after calling Time Warner or Comcast first because the problem is obviously on their end. Searching for the above feedback I came across this: "Please change the login screen. I want a fresh new login screen. Not the old Windows 8.1 login screen." Nothing more specific, just new.
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Ghostlight posted:The full text is "The login screen is currently very laggy - usually I can CTRL-ALT-DEL and start typing in my password immediately. Now if I do this it cuts off anything I type before the password box physically appears, rather than 'queuing' it up like it did previously"
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The CAD bit is just because the machine has a domain login. It was behaving properly in the last build, so I assume it's either a new bug or just this build uses an older version of the code than the last one did.
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Swartz posted:This is probably a retarded question: if I install the 10 tech preview, will it overwrite my 8.1 OS install, or do I need to allow extra room for my new OS? Asking this because my SSD that my OS is on is pretty much maxed out. I'm not sure what in the world I could transfer to my HDD that would help it :/ Unless you tell windows to install to a separate partition, I believe you can have it just overwrite the current install, it should tell you if there is not enough space for the install to complete.
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Ghostlight posted:The CAD bit is just because the machine has a domain login.  Very happy those days are gone.quote:It was behaving properly in the last build, so I assume it's either a new bug or just this build uses an older version of the code than the last one did.
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