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Microsoft’s Cortana Gets Baked Into Cyanogen’s Forked Version Of Android

posted by CoolHand on Friday January 08 2016, @08:07PM   
from the keeping-relevant dept.

"exec" writes:

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/05/cortana-cyanogen/

Microsoft's Cortana quietly snuck onto to Android in a meaningful this week in a small but telling move that you probably missed unless you own a OnePlus One..

[...] while Siri works best with Apple apps and services, the Cortana integration promises to be deeper.

"When Apple launched Apple Music at WWDC, they showed the Siri integration with Apple Music. Siri doesn't power Spotify like that so we can do these kind of things with for example, integration of Microsoft's Cortana into the OS enabling natural language to power Spotify and other services," Cyanogen CEO Kirk McMaster said in an interview with International Business Times last year.

It isn't clear when this feature will roll out to other Cyanogen-compatible devices, but already this ambitious startup is getting serious with its quest to "steal Android away from Google".

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• cyangnomod != cyanogen cyangnomod != cyanogen (Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Friday January 08 2016, @08:29PM

  by SubiculumHammer (5191) on Friday January 08 2016, @08:29PM (#286890)

  I'm not sure, but I am going to assume this will not be integrated into the Cyanogenomod distribution.

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• Re:cyangnomod != cyanogen (Score: 3, Interesting) by kadal on Friday January 08 2016, @08:34PM

  by kadal (4731) on Friday January 08 2016, @08:34PM (#286892)

  It won't be forcibly integrated. I remember reading a press release about this from Cyanogen, but can't find it now.

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• Re:cyangnomod != cyanogen Re:cyangnomod != cyanogen (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @08:36PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @08:36PM (#286894)

  I sure hope it isn't. Now that MS has gone full spyware with Win10, anything they touch is suspect.

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  • Re:cyangnomod != cyanogen (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @09:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @09:12PM (#286915)

    Best decision ever was installing CyanogenMod and just Fdroid apps. Clean fast machine.

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  • Re:cyangnomod != cyanogen (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @07:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @07:35AM (#287190)

    Now??? Sure they've stepped up their game now that the average consumer has been "adjusted" and takes privacy violations for granted, the lack of complete outrage over the mass surveillance being the canary in the mine. "Hey boys their outrage is dead, we can move in!" Everything MS has touched has been suspect for at least 15 years. It began with controlling software and patents, but the new game is data and they've been sucking up various services. One big one is Skype, all communications go through the MS servers when they didn't before the takeover. I'm sure logging has nooothing to do with it /s.

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• The Faust|Mephisto thing (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @09:44PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @09:44PM (#286936)

  I am going to assume this will not be integrated into the [Cyanogenmod] distribution

  We'll see.
  I think you overestimate the extremely low price some folks put on their souls as well as the percentage of its wealth M$ is willing to dedicate to its dirty-deeds warchest.

  ...and, having failed at anti-Android FUD, [soylentnews.org] M$ has moved on to another big item in its playbook: E,E,E. [wikipedia.org]

  At this point, a really good idea is to assure that the device you are scoping out is Replicant-compatible. [soylentnews.org]

  -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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