Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

11 CHAPTER 1 | Getting started with Windows 10 Figure 1-10: Cortana provides relevant information, including weather alerts for the current location and customized news and sports briefings. You can also interact directly with Cortana by typing or talking. With the right hardware, Cortana can also respond to voice input, even waking up when you say “Hey, Cortana.” Organizations can choose to restrict the use of Cortana, of course, but among small businesses and home users it can be both fun and useful. Unlike similar services on other platforms, Cortana offers an enormous array of customization options in its Notebook, shown in Figure 1-11. There, you can connect email and calendar accounts and tell Cortana more about your preferences (favorite sports teams, for example), making the results more personal. Figure 1-11: Each of the categories in Cortana’s Notebook gives you a way to provide additional details about that category, or turn that category off completely if you prefer. I talk more about Cortana’s personalization options in Chapter 2.