Microsoft turning up the heat in the UK

[neo158]

Yes, Cortana is Beta on the L735.

Playing with her last night, and she is getting better at learning about me. She's a little unstable and crashed out for no obvious reason a couple of times. But still better - more 'human' - than Google Now (never tried Siri.)

Cortana isn't perfect at the moment, it seems to have moments when it completely ignores what I'm saying, but it's amazing to see how much work has gone into Cortana already.

 

[FredBloggs007]

Anyway, back on topic... I expect to see further adverts in the lead up to Xmas in the UK...

 

[QuentinJ]

I was led to understand Cortana is alpha in the UK, whilst beta in the US. But you seem to be right, it's beta since GDR1 (PfD) was released.

Anyway, only phones sporting GDR1 (or Denim) can access Cortana in the UK, right? It means: 730/830, 930 which has received GDR1 (while staying on Cyan), and people using Preview for Developers (that I quickly summed up as geeks). My point was: she has to be released to the masses quickly (all wp phones, so for the lumias, denim has to roll out), without having to install PfD. So I hope it means : Denim rolled out by Christmas and not beginning of 2015 as the rumor says.

Cortana is in beta in the UK and US, alpha is for Canada, Australia and India

 

[paulsalter]

They seem to have also started advertising for a Laptop which looks similar to a Chrombook

HP 11 (not sure of full name as wasn't taking too much notice, but less than ?200, looks like win 8 but uses onedrive for storage instead of local