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On 8 January 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved from Cortana to Cortana (virtual assistant). The result of the discussion was moved. |
And as I don't want to leave a mess I want to request a more experienced writer to make a background or history section for Microsoft's Cortana based on ( http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/cortana-041614.aspx) from Microsoft Research telling about the creation of Cortana dating back in 2009. -- 86.81.201.94 ( talk) 18:27, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
How are you cortana Abdikafi123 ( talk) 19:26, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi.
Just a notice. Whois results indicate that this website is not owned by Microsoft. Please exercise caution.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk)
09:15, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
I believe the word Siri should appear in this article, as Cortana is clearly influenced by it and is competing with it.
I wrote "Some people see it as Microsoft's alternative to Siri" and gave a reference. This was reverted. I agree "Some people" is not the best phrasing, I do not want to start an edit war, and I'd support any phrasing, but I believe ignoring Siri is wrong.
What do you think?
עמיר רהט ( talk) 08:26, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
I fixed two things in the article: 1) the use of "NBL" instead of "NBA" 2) The use of "metres" instead of "meters" (the latter one is correct because we're talking about a product developed by Microsoft, an American, not British, company, based in Redmond, WA, USA). I hope my corrections do not make editors angry. I just think that if a company like Microsoft is American the article should avoid Briticisms like writing "metres" instead of "meters". --Marce 10:45, 6 February 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fandelasketchup ( talk • contribs)
Hi, Cortana is not available in Australia, proven by http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/cortanas-regions-and-languages this article. I don't want to change the page because I'm not good at it, but if someone could, that'd be great :) TheScottymo ( talk) 01:07, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Hello editors,
Please help me add a footnote to several sentences, beginning with "Users in certain countries in Europe can also choose to opt-in to the alpha for the French, German, Italian, and Spanish versions of Cortana as of August 2014." What I tried to add was the following code:
And the result should be the following:
<ref>
tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the
help page).Under Notes and References should be
I do not know why the note did not appear after the second sentence. I plan to apply the footnote to several other places within the article, but if I can't do so here, I'm sure I can't do so there. Can anyone please help?
Thank you! <<< SOME GADGET GEEK >>> ( talk) 14:54, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
When Windows 10 launches I want to add the template "Microsoft Windows Components" underneath the article, but I was wondering if I should wait until the official R.T.M. or could do it right now, anyhow Microsoft Cortana is a built-in component of Windows 10 so eventually Microsoft Cortana will be mentioned in the template, but I wonder if it's best to wait for later as product announcements don't translate to reality, but as Windows Holographic is mentioned I wondered if moving it in a little early would fall under WP:CRYSTAL or not. Sincerely, -- 86.81.201.94 ( talk) 19:45, 30 April 2015 (UTC) (Alternatively Namlong618)
The result of the move request was: Withdrawn by nominator. Clearly there won't be consensus for this move yet, though I still think it's worth considering in the future. Cúchullain t/ c 12:53, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
– It seems clear that Microsoft's Cortana personal assistant has emerged as the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of the name Cortana. It receives several times the page views of all potentially ambiguous articles combined: it was viewed 156,286 times in the last 90 days under its old name, and 26k in less than two weeks under the name Cortana (intelligent personal assistant). In comparison, there were 45015 for Cortana (Halo) and 1037 for Cortana (gastropod), as well as 13517 for Curtana (which is sometimes spelled "Cortana", but much less frequently than "Curtana"). It seems pretty clear this article is what a large majority of our readers are looking for. Cúchullain t/ c 19:09, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
Dialects need to be mutually intelligible for them to be considered the same language, also " European Spanish" is a better term to adhere than " Castilian Spanish" as "Castilian" is also the WP:COMMONNAME for Argentino Spanish, the list could be alright, but I'd change "dialects" to "regional variants" and replace "Chinese" with "Mandarin Chinese" and since Mainland Chinese (see: Standard Mainland Mandarin) is different from Taiwanese Mandarin the latter could be added separately if Microsoft would ever implement it there (note that I'm not pleading on the basis of WP:CRYSTAL but on the fact that these are in fact different dialects of the same Mandarin Chinese language and not a mythical Chinese language as by the same logic French, Castilian, Catalan, Italian, and Portuguese are all "dialects" of the same Latin language (romance)).
Sincerely, -- 86.81.201.94 ( talk) 19:55, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi guys! The reason I undid the edit is due to Cortana fitting the description of an intelligent personal assistant. Also, Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa do not have so-called in front. If you have any objections, please include them below and make sure to ping me. I will reply when I have a change (which could be up to 48 hours). Happy Holidays!
Daylen ( talk) 23:26, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
The map contained in this article of supported regions includes the Chinese Republic which is not true, only Mainland Mandarin (Putonghua - Official language) is supported, Taiwanese Mandarin (Guoyü - National language) is still unavailable as one is unable to set their region to " Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)" and get Cortana(, yet). -- 58.187.167.178 ( talk) 02:40, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
why its doesent work Cortana in my window 10 pc pls cam n u help me — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.247.77.228 ( talk) 06:08, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
As per WP:SOURCE please add sources to every addition regarding new languages and/or language variants and/or platform availability of Cortana in that region otherwise the unsourced material may be removed or marked with "Citation needed". Thank you.
Sincerely, -- 86.81.201.94 ( talk) 12:51, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Shouldn't this article include mention of the win 10 anniversary edition removing almost all users ability to disable cortana? TeeTylerToe ( talk) 04:42, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
Is there a need to report the negative reaction to this program? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Panama1958 ( talk • contribs) 16:07, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved to Cortana. ( non-admin closure). Anarchyte ( work | talk) 06:16, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
Cortana (software) → Cortana (virtual assistant) – The technology is called a " virtual assistant", and articles for other similar technologies (Facebook's M, Samsung's Bixby) are disambiguated with "virtual assistant". – Nick Mitchell 98 talk 01:10, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
"Microsoft is killing off its Cortana app for iOS and Android in January" at the Verge. Link to MS notice "Changes to Cortana services". Article says notice is "for Cortana users in the UK, Canada, and Australia that reveals Cortana for iOS and Android is disappearing in at least those markets." So what about the rest of the world? Shenme ( talk) 18:41, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
Sadly, Microsoft removed Cortana voice assistant from Xbox One:
(I hope they don't remove it from Windows 10.) Therefore, this page should be updated to reflect this change. I might find more links about this and update it myself in the future. -- User123o987name ( talk) 03:16, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Quiet hours. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 13#Quiet hours until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. TheAwesome Hwyh 16:55, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi cortana Abdikafi123 ( talk) 19:27, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I don't think this article meets the good article criteria. Some sections and paragraphs are only a single sentence long, the article contains some vaguely promotional content (like the "by the numbers" section), the article cites sources which don't seem to be reliable or particularly reputable (KontentPort, Eye on Windows, Ubergizmo, etc.), and even the lead is a bit too short for my liking. This article feels more like a C class to me, not a GA. I've never brought an article to reassessment before, so apologies if I've done something wrong. TheAwesome Hwyh 16:34, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
{{u|
Mark viking}} {
Talk}
18:07, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
{{u|
Mark viking}} {
Talk}
21:26, 13 May 2020 (UTC)Dear IP editor with IP 96.19.71.229 and Manticore, you seem to be involved in a very slow edit war over the image caption under the first image in this article. I invite you to discuss the caption here.
I believe that IP editor is correct in this case and the caption should not be Cortana on Windows 10 (pre-2014 update) because Windows 10 was not released yet in 2014. In this case, 2004 means Windows 10 update also known as "20H1" and "May 2020" update. This update did change the appearance of Cortana on Windows 10 Task bar by splitting Cortana out of the search bar into a dedicated button with the Cortana logo. [1] This new Cortana button can be seen on this image from Windows 10 article.
References
Anton.bersh ( talk) 07:38, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
With halo cortana being the overwhelming leader in pageviews again, and the winding down of the cortana virtual assistant by microsoft, shouldn't the move be undone? 188.213.136.119 ( talk) 18:04, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Extraordinary Writ ( talk) 04:16, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
– Though the Microsoft virtual assistant may arguably have been the primary topic during the 2017 requested move, this is not the case anymore. Microsoft has neutered the product in recent versions of Windows, and so less people have been reading this article. Page views. Schierbecker ( talk) 23:35, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
hihgfds 2601:152:C100:1556:D9CC:4AD6:DFB:6376 ( talk) 22:16, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
Level one Abdikafi123 ( talk) 19:23, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Cortana (virtual assistant) article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
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|
Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
Cortana (virtual assistant) was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. | |||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
A
fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the "
Did you know?" column on
October 26, 2016. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that
Cortana correctly predicted the winners of the first 14 matches of the
2014 FIFA World Cup knockout stage? | |||||||||||||
Current status: Delisted good article |
Cortana (virtual assistant) received a peer review by Wikipedia editors, which is now archived. It may contain ideas you can use to improve this article. |
This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
On 8 January 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved from Cortana to Cortana (virtual assistant). The result of the discussion was moved. |
And as I don't want to leave a mess I want to request a more experienced writer to make a background or history section for Microsoft's Cortana based on ( http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/cortana-041614.aspx) from Microsoft Research telling about the creation of Cortana dating back in 2009. -- 86.81.201.94 ( talk) 18:27, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
How are you cortana Abdikafi123 ( talk) 19:26, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi.
Just a notice. Whois results indicate that this website is not owned by Microsoft. Please exercise caution.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk)
09:15, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
I believe the word Siri should appear in this article, as Cortana is clearly influenced by it and is competing with it.
I wrote "Some people see it as Microsoft's alternative to Siri" and gave a reference. This was reverted. I agree "Some people" is not the best phrasing, I do not want to start an edit war, and I'd support any phrasing, but I believe ignoring Siri is wrong.
What do you think?
עמיר רהט ( talk) 08:26, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
I fixed two things in the article: 1) the use of "NBL" instead of "NBA" 2) The use of "metres" instead of "meters" (the latter one is correct because we're talking about a product developed by Microsoft, an American, not British, company, based in Redmond, WA, USA). I hope my corrections do not make editors angry. I just think that if a company like Microsoft is American the article should avoid Briticisms like writing "metres" instead of "meters". --Marce 10:45, 6 February 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fandelasketchup ( talk • contribs)
Hi, Cortana is not available in Australia, proven by http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/cortanas-regions-and-languages this article. I don't want to change the page because I'm not good at it, but if someone could, that'd be great :) TheScottymo ( talk) 01:07, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Hello editors,
Please help me add a footnote to several sentences, beginning with "Users in certain countries in Europe can also choose to opt-in to the alpha for the French, German, Italian, and Spanish versions of Cortana as of August 2014." What I tried to add was the following code:
And the result should be the following:
<ref>
tag is malformed or has a bad name (see the
help page).Under Notes and References should be
I do not know why the note did not appear after the second sentence. I plan to apply the footnote to several other places within the article, but if I can't do so here, I'm sure I can't do so there. Can anyone please help?
Thank you! <<< SOME GADGET GEEK >>> ( talk) 14:54, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
When Windows 10 launches I want to add the template "Microsoft Windows Components" underneath the article, but I was wondering if I should wait until the official R.T.M. or could do it right now, anyhow Microsoft Cortana is a built-in component of Windows 10 so eventually Microsoft Cortana will be mentioned in the template, but I wonder if it's best to wait for later as product announcements don't translate to reality, but as Windows Holographic is mentioned I wondered if moving it in a little early would fall under WP:CRYSTAL or not. Sincerely, -- 86.81.201.94 ( talk) 19:45, 30 April 2015 (UTC) (Alternatively Namlong618)
The result of the move request was: Withdrawn by nominator. Clearly there won't be consensus for this move yet, though I still think it's worth considering in the future. Cúchullain t/ c 12:53, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
– It seems clear that Microsoft's Cortana personal assistant has emerged as the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of the name Cortana. It receives several times the page views of all potentially ambiguous articles combined: it was viewed 156,286 times in the last 90 days under its old name, and 26k in less than two weeks under the name Cortana (intelligent personal assistant). In comparison, there were 45015 for Cortana (Halo) and 1037 for Cortana (gastropod), as well as 13517 for Curtana (which is sometimes spelled "Cortana", but much less frequently than "Curtana"). It seems pretty clear this article is what a large majority of our readers are looking for. Cúchullain t/ c 19:09, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
Dialects need to be mutually intelligible for them to be considered the same language, also " European Spanish" is a better term to adhere than " Castilian Spanish" as "Castilian" is also the WP:COMMONNAME for Argentino Spanish, the list could be alright, but I'd change "dialects" to "regional variants" and replace "Chinese" with "Mandarin Chinese" and since Mainland Chinese (see: Standard Mainland Mandarin) is different from Taiwanese Mandarin the latter could be added separately if Microsoft would ever implement it there (note that I'm not pleading on the basis of WP:CRYSTAL but on the fact that these are in fact different dialects of the same Mandarin Chinese language and not a mythical Chinese language as by the same logic French, Castilian, Catalan, Italian, and Portuguese are all "dialects" of the same Latin language (romance)).
Sincerely, -- 86.81.201.94 ( talk) 19:55, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi guys! The reason I undid the edit is due to Cortana fitting the description of an intelligent personal assistant. Also, Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa do not have so-called in front. If you have any objections, please include them below and make sure to ping me. I will reply when I have a change (which could be up to 48 hours). Happy Holidays!
Daylen ( talk) 23:26, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
The map contained in this article of supported regions includes the Chinese Republic which is not true, only Mainland Mandarin (Putonghua - Official language) is supported, Taiwanese Mandarin (Guoyü - National language) is still unavailable as one is unable to set their region to " Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)" and get Cortana(, yet). -- 58.187.167.178 ( talk) 02:40, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
why its doesent work Cortana in my window 10 pc pls cam n u help me — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.247.77.228 ( talk) 06:08, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
As per WP:SOURCE please add sources to every addition regarding new languages and/or language variants and/or platform availability of Cortana in that region otherwise the unsourced material may be removed or marked with "Citation needed". Thank you.
Sincerely, -- 86.81.201.94 ( talk) 12:51, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Shouldn't this article include mention of the win 10 anniversary edition removing almost all users ability to disable cortana? TeeTylerToe ( talk) 04:42, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
Is there a need to report the negative reaction to this program? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Panama1958 ( talk • contribs) 16:07, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved to Cortana. ( non-admin closure). Anarchyte ( work | talk) 06:16, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
Cortana (software) → Cortana (virtual assistant) – The technology is called a " virtual assistant", and articles for other similar technologies (Facebook's M, Samsung's Bixby) are disambiguated with "virtual assistant". – Nick Mitchell 98 talk 01:10, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
"Microsoft is killing off its Cortana app for iOS and Android in January" at the Verge. Link to MS notice "Changes to Cortana services". Article says notice is "for Cortana users in the UK, Canada, and Australia that reveals Cortana for iOS and Android is disappearing in at least those markets." So what about the rest of the world? Shenme ( talk) 18:41, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
Sadly, Microsoft removed Cortana voice assistant from Xbox One:
(I hope they don't remove it from Windows 10.) Therefore, this page should be updated to reflect this change. I might find more links about this and update it myself in the future. -- User123o987name ( talk) 03:16, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Quiet hours. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 13#Quiet hours until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. TheAwesome Hwyh 16:55, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi cortana Abdikafi123 ( talk) 19:27, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I don't think this article meets the good article criteria. Some sections and paragraphs are only a single sentence long, the article contains some vaguely promotional content (like the "by the numbers" section), the article cites sources which don't seem to be reliable or particularly reputable (KontentPort, Eye on Windows, Ubergizmo, etc.), and even the lead is a bit too short for my liking. This article feels more like a C class to me, not a GA. I've never brought an article to reassessment before, so apologies if I've done something wrong. TheAwesome Hwyh 16:34, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
{{u|
Mark viking}} {
Talk}
18:07, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
{{u|
Mark viking}} {
Talk}
21:26, 13 May 2020 (UTC)Dear IP editor with IP 96.19.71.229 and Manticore, you seem to be involved in a very slow edit war over the image caption under the first image in this article. I invite you to discuss the caption here.
I believe that IP editor is correct in this case and the caption should not be Cortana on Windows 10 (pre-2014 update) because Windows 10 was not released yet in 2014. In this case, 2004 means Windows 10 update also known as "20H1" and "May 2020" update. This update did change the appearance of Cortana on Windows 10 Task bar by splitting Cortana out of the search bar into a dedicated button with the Cortana logo. [1] This new Cortana button can be seen on this image from Windows 10 article.
References
Anton.bersh ( talk) 07:38, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
With halo cortana being the overwhelming leader in pageviews again, and the winding down of the cortana virtual assistant by microsoft, shouldn't the move be undone? 188.213.136.119 ( talk) 18:04, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Extraordinary Writ ( talk) 04:16, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
– Though the Microsoft virtual assistant may arguably have been the primary topic during the 2017 requested move, this is not the case anymore. Microsoft has neutered the product in recent versions of Windows, and so less people have been reading this article. Page views. Schierbecker ( talk) 23:35, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
hihgfds 2601:152:C100:1556:D9CC:4AD6:DFB:6376 ( talk) 22:16, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
Level one Abdikafi123 ( talk) 19:23, 13 January 2023 (UTC)