I apologise if this is covered elsewhere, but I couldn't see it.
For those of us outside of the US, what will 8.1 bring? I know Cortana is absent, but what about the following things I am specifically interested in?
Action centre (I'm assuming a YES for this)
Independent volume settings (again I assume YES)
Quiet hours? More specifically (and this was something that I miss badly from Android) quiet hours and sound profiles based on location. The presentation seemed to show just such functionality, but will it work without Cortana. I cannot see a reason why it wouldn't, but...
Finally, couldn't Microsoft include a beta of Cortana for everyone, just without the voice recognition for non US countries, but still with keyboard input. That way they would gather much more info about real-world users? Any thoughts?
Thanks
K
For those of us outside of the US, what will 8.1 bring? I know Cortana is absent, but what about the following things I am specifically interested in?
Action centre (I'm assuming a YES for this)
Independent volume settings (again I assume YES)
Quiet hours? More specifically (and this was something that I miss badly from Android) quiet hours and sound profiles based on location. The presentation seemed to show just such functionality, but will it work without Cortana. I cannot see a reason why it wouldn't, but...
Finally, couldn't Microsoft include a beta of Cortana for everyone, just without the voice recognition for non US countries, but still with keyboard input. That way they would gather much more info about real-world users? Any thoughts?
Thanks
K