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Cortana for Windows Phone 8.1 gets privacy prioritized with ‘Notebook’ feature

With Windows Telephone 8.ane merely five weeks out, there'southward not too much left to revealed, except one big feature: Cortana.

The digital vocalism assistant to rival Apple's Siri and Google's Now service is expected to premier with Windows Phone eight.ane, and while a few facts accept leaked out so far, the Verge has at present gone into more than detail about Cortana, including its Notebook cadre.

According to the Verge'due south Tom Warren, Cortana will take a 'Notebook feature' that stores "location data, behaviors, personal information, reminders, and contact information", but only as the user allows. This is to ensure that privacy takes priority over efficiency of the banana, pregnant Cortana won't collect, store or employ information most y'all without your consent. Indeed, information can reportedly be edited or fifty-fifty deleted later by the user.

That'due south certainly throwing down the gauntlet confronting Google, who don't accept such restrictions or control on Android.

Other details about Cortana confirm our earlier report about it having a "personality", represented as a billowy ball with emotions to reflect current inquiries. From our earlier report, we heard Cortana described like this:

"The personality of Cortana is currently represented by a circle graphic that expresses what it's doing (searching, identifying music à la the current Bing music listener built into Windows Phone, etc.) past various animations like spinning, flipping, etc.  …more animations [have] come in over time, and the color is based on your theme colour."

Regarding some behavior, the Verge notes that Cortana will offer "guidance on atmospheric condition, stocks, directions, appointments, and music that'south contextual based on location and other data". Also, it is also confirmed that Cortana will act upon incoming messages, email and other alerts, offering to lend assistance.  This feature was described to the states earlier by a source familiar with Microsoft'southward plans:

"For example, let's say I send yous an SMS that says like "Want to get dinner tomorrow in Seattle?" You'll meet parts of that text bulletin underlined. Click that and you'll be able to instantly enter the info into your calendar with some of those fields already populated. So it would fill "Seattle" as the location, if I had said a fourth dimension it will already have the fourth dimension there."

Finally, the Verge also reveals a very useful feature for your favorite acquaintances

"An "inner circumvolve" of contacts volition allow Cortana to manage notifications and telephone calls during "quiet hours" when notifications are muted."

Powered by Bing and Foursquare – amid the initial services – Cortana equally introduced in April will be just the kickoff of this new Microsoft tool. From that point, Redmond will have to aggrandize Cortana to other areas, including Windows 8, Xbox, in add-on to adding services or improving contextual search and behaviors.

Regarding the name, currently the beta SDK only refers to the function as 'Cortana'. But as unearthed in the MUI strings for voice commands, users will actually be able to proper name their voice assistant, making the thing a flake moot for the boilerplate consumer.

Windows Phone 8.1 will reportedly be revealed during Build on April ii.

Source: The Verge

Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/cortana-privacy-prioritized-notebook

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