Microsoft’s Craig Mundie says they have had Siri-like functionality in Windows Phone for more than a year.
∞ Microsoft says they've had Siri-like tech for a year
Microsoft’s Craig Mundie says they have had Siri-like functionality in Windows Phone for more than a year.
For some reason, I find that very hard to believe 🙂
The “Apple’s all about marketing” meme is a bit tired. And Siri is not voice recognition/transcription, it’s way more than that.
They need to get their story straight. Just a few weeks ago Andy Lees was saying that talking to your phone wasn’t that useful.
They have, and that tech has been in Windows Phone 7 for a long time, but it’s just not quite as in-depth as Siri. In some ways WP7’s Tell Me does have some deeper integration with Bing than Apple has with Google. Both are limited, though.
It’s easy to make claims like that when one is entirely unfamiliar with the actual services and products one is talking about. I’d like to beleieve that they are entirely aware of what Siri does, but I just don’t believe it.
Craig Mundie hit the nail on head about the difference between Siri and Tellme. He said with Tellme you can just have to say the words and it works. The difference being, with Siri you can say just about any words and it works.
Of course- that explains the success of WP7 in the market, right?
Someone with a Windows Phone 7 ask it what the nasdaq closed at yesterday? What happens?
Are you serious…
What was it Steve Jobs once said? Oh, yeah: Real artists ship.
Another dork at Microsoft who TOTALLY doesn’t get it. I had Google Voice for a year before Siri, and there is NO comparison. Apple of course took a concept that was clumsy and made it seamless and useful. The face this idiot makes when the interviewer brings up Siri sums up the entire tone at Microsoft, they simply don’t get it. No wonder their fonts are ugly, their interfaces confusing, their support crappy, they consider these things to be small little things that only grumpy users complain about. Apple considers these small details INTRINSIC values that determine the usability of the product. Great marketing? Not hard to do when you have the best product on the market. Do all Microsoft reps have to pass a test to show they’re as ignorant and clueless as Ballmer?
You know, it just amazes mé how how MS tries to downplay Siri! They did the same thing with e iPad, but guess what? If you have it already, show it already!
But not in the same way. Limitations are with every tech. But Siri raises a new high bar!
Don’t be mistaken, they know what a threat this and they are trying to downplay it. They want the consumer who is thinking about buying into Apple to think twice. They are also trying to hold on to the increasingly slippery slope, hoping everything will change in their direction before it is too late.
Yeah, the good old smoke and mirror’s of marketing technique. Problem is, that it’s Microsoft Blowing the smoke it’s inhaling
If you know your Star Trek: The Next Generation, you will understand this:
Xerox PARC and GUI and the mouse in the late 70’s.
Oh, I agree s
As an aside, remember when the mere mention of an impending Microsoft product could freeze markets and strangle nascent competitors? Man, the management at Microsoft must miss those days terribly.
Remember Ballmer at CES trying to demo an HP Slate that didn’t actually exist? “Yeah, we’ve got one of those, too.”
No, you didn’t.
“Jobs and Wozniak in the garage.”
By his reasoning, IOS has had Siri functionality for years as well.
The font for Windows Phone 7 is actually quite nice. It’s called Segoe WP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segoe
A large part of the problem at Microsoft is that they deceive themselves. I wouldn’t be surprised if until recently they (the execs) wouldn’t even look at iPhones, preferring instead to believe that the Microsoft solution would of course do better, simply because they are Microsoft. I wonder how many Microsoft people use an iPad on a regular basis? Not many, I’d wager. They’re becoming irrelevant, despite the gigantic base of Windows and Office users. Outside of that (highly profitable) legacy, they have not managed to become the dominant force in any single market since.
Jobs, when the Board resigned.”
“Amelio, sobbing alone in the executive washroom.”
They did. They called it “Surface”. 😀
The NASDAQ closes lower…