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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   Printer-friendly
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".

-- submitted from IRC

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  • (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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  • (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.

  • (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.