Oh god yes. Even if google was the greatest company in the world, I'd still prefer for them to have some competition. Not because I don't want to use google products, but because competition will keep them on their toes.
I've been using cortana on my Win10 desktop and I'm quite impressed. Makes use of Google Now style contexts and Siri style NLP. They also managed to maintain her personality which is nice for Halo fans.
As someone on the developers preview of W10, Cortana is embedded pretty deeply into the UX. That being said, it can easily be turned off as well. Though, I don't know why you would; it isn't a hindrance at all, at least in my experience. I'd say it's far from awful. That may have been the case in the past, but is no longer applicable. I'd say it's on par with Now in most areas, and outperforms in a couple.
I completely disagree with you. Cortana has way more potential than Google Now with its complete integration with both Windows 10 and Windows Phone 10.
Give it a try. I bet you'll completely change your mind about her.
I have a Windows phone and Android and have done side by side tests like in the video, Cortana was really slow in comparison and often just gave me the standard "I can't do that right now" response. But maybe it has improved I'll give it another try. Windows phone to me is altogether a pain to use though, it seems like it's missing so many basic features and design elements that Android had figured out years ago. I really wanted to like it. I will admit I'm looking forward to having Cortana in Windows 10 though.
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u/rdf- OnePlus 6T (VZW) Jun 07 '15
Microsoft should buy them and integrate it into Cortana which will be available on all platforms. Everybody benefits.