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    Naturally, Cortana will be integrated into Project Spartan
    It'll pop up on relevant pages where Cortana can be useful

Another Internet Explorer I won't be using. Block pop-ups only to have one natively installed.

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I guess there will be an option for that. Almost everything of the Win 10 stuff that MS showed off today was optional.

It reminds me of clippy...

Exactly what I thought. I know that virtual assistance is hot right now, but this seems like a bit much.

I was hoping they'd reference clipping in the presentation today. After they talked about "Cortana" appearing randomly on your desktop and in IE, all I could think of was "it looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like help? Get help typing the letter. Just type the letter without help." every... single... time...

I really hope this isn't another Clippy. If "Cortana" gets annoying I'm totally figuring out how to add the Clippy graphic to the UI and rename her "Clippy" (I bet you can personalise the name). Which, after thinking about it, I might try to do anyway just because it would be amusing...

I think it would be great for anyone who is visually impaired to have such functionality enabled by default. I imagine it's configurable, usually everything in Windows is, even if you have to hack through the system registry to configure it.

Well, in fairness, they said Cortana would only pop up on "pages where Cortana can be useful." Perhaps this means Cortana will be configured to never pop up.

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