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To the shock of no one, Windows 10 users who upgrade to the Anniversary Update (scheduled for release next week), will not be able to disable Cortana using the settings.
If you compare the start menu settings of Cortana of the current version of Windows (version 1511) with those of the Anniversary Update (version 1607) you will notice that Cortana's off switch is no longer available (thanks Ian Paul @PC World for spotting that)
Cortana, the digital assistant that Microsoft touts as one of the major features of Windows 10 supports interaction via touch, typing, ink and voice.
Microsoft integrated Cortana deeply with the native search functionality of Windows 10. While linked to search, Windows 10 users may turn off Cortana currently to use search without it. While you might have to turn off web searches on Windows 10 as well, doing so ensured that you got search functionality that matched those of previous versions of Windows.
Windows users who turned off Cortana had two main reasons for it: either they did not need Cortana functionality, or they did not want it because of privacy implications.
[...] It is still possible to turn off Cortana, but not by using the preferences. The policy to disable Cortana is still available and you may use it to turn off Cortana on the device.
Please note that the Group Policy Editor is only available in professional versions of Windows 10. Most notably, it is not available in Windows 10 Home.
The linked article goes into detail on how to disable Cortana using the Registry in Windows 10 Home, and Group Policy Editor in Windows 10 Pro. However, Microsoft no longer makes disabling Cortana anywhere near as easy as it was.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @08:47AM
My final comment on this is: After that scene earlier where the sister took over that E-Corp lady's smarthouse... Why the fuck is this Dom chick running an integrated audio surveillance device in her house, along with all those other smarthouse features? Seems like she is just begging to be pwn3d.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @09:53AM
Maybe she will get pwned. Maybe her stuff will get (the other overused word) bricked. On the one hand, Dominique seems savvy enough, but on the other hand, her judgement seems clouded by her social isolation. Likely she's supposed to know talking to Alexa is risky but she doesn't have anyone else.
(Score: 1, Troll) by VLM on Wednesday July 27 2016, @11:54AM
OK ACs nice discussion. And I've seen this floating around amazon prime video and have considered watching. But my time is extremely limited and expensive so I haven't made the plunge. Other higher priority things to do, etc.
I've heard its basically a modernized remake of "welcome to the scene" from a decade ago, but with newer technology and American-style Adult (being an american adult means being a 5 year old that drinks, has sex, and swears a lot, which is a philosophical outlook which is intensely pushed but something I'm uninterested in). But basically the same story, the saga of a small time wanna be white collar criminal using modern (for the time) technology as a crutch.
The style was never influential; it relied on the viewer being literate which is a bad bet, and everything but the instant message prose was just ambient scene setting (oh the pun). The music was pretty good.
So I'd welcome a comment from anyone who's watched the robot and welcome to the scene. I only watched the first season. I heard the second season sucked. The parody "Teh scene" is funny although I didn't watch the whole thing.
If you have no idea what the scene series was, its all on archive.org now and also on less reliable more advertisement and driveby download covered sites. Amusingly I'm not sure its still available by torrent although that was the distro method in '05.