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The return of Clippy! Microsoft says more about their digital assistant Cortana
wraith808:
Clippy and Cortana serve completely different purposes.
-xtabber (February 12, 2015, 12:22 PM)
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Possibly only because the technology wasn't yet available (and Microsoft lacked Apple's "the world is my oyster" vision) to make it so? ;)
-40hz (February 12, 2015, 12:34 PM)
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For the missteps of Clippy and Bob, it's pretty easy to see that the ideas are pretty analogous to what we're getting today.
40hz:
Clippy and Cortana serve completely different purposes.
-xtabber (February 12, 2015, 12:22 PM)
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Possibly only because the technology wasn't yet available (and Microsoft lacked Apple's "the world is my oyster" vision) to make it so? ;)
-40hz (February 12, 2015, 12:34 PM)
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For the missteps of Clippy and Bob, it's pretty easy to see that the ideas are pretty analogous to what we're getting today.
-wraith808 (February 12, 2015, 12:51 PM)
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Microsoft never willingly abandons an investment in research or software development. Even when it's a bad idea or doesn't work.
But that mindset still doesn't stop them from abandoning a genuine technical achievement like FlightSim simply because it (a) wasn't "serious" enough and (b) they couldn't sell 80 million copies of it.
wraith808:
Clippy and Cortana serve completely different purposes.
-xtabber (February 12, 2015, 12:22 PM)
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Possibly only because the technology wasn't yet available (and Microsoft lacked Apple's "the world is my oyster" vision) to make it so? ;)
-40hz (February 12, 2015, 12:34 PM)
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For the missteps of Clippy and Bob, it's pretty easy to see that the ideas are pretty analogous to what we're getting today.
-wraith808 (February 12, 2015, 12:51 PM)
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Microsoft never willingly abandons an investment in research or software development. Even when it's a bad idea or doesn't work.
But that mindset still doesn't stop them from abandoning a genuine technical achievement like FlightSim simply because it (a) wasn't "serious" enough and (b) they couldn't sell 80 million copies of it.
-40hz (February 12, 2015, 02:29 PM)
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Isn't FlightSim not only a technical achievement... but an investment? Which is why it boggles me that they abandon the investment already made... not just from a technical perspective, but the sheer amount of data processed for the detail of the landscapes and such.
40hz:
Isn't FlightSim not only a technical achievement... but an investment? Which is why it boggles me that they abandon the investment already made... not just from a technical perspective, but the sheer amount of data processed for the detail of the landscapes and such.
-wraith808 (February 12, 2015, 02:34 PM)
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Something went down, that's for sure! I never once heard an explanation from anybody (including the "mothership" herself) why they axed that gem. And not just axed it either. They completely buried it as well. Inventory completely pulled from retail channels. No legacy copy for "download sale only." No tombstone freebie release to the public like they did with Money. Dunno...it just makes no sense based on anything they officially told us. And the rumors about "what really happened" haven't made much sense either.
And that's too bad. FlightSim would have been all they needed to keep me (and a lot of other people) customers of Microsoft forever.
Vurbal:
Even though I was never that interested in Flight Simulator, the game controller technology it spawned was ground breaking, and opened my thinking up about computer interfaces significantly.
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