14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft’s chief strategy and research officer Craig Mundie had a chat with Forbes' Eric Savitz to talk about the Windows maker’s plans with touch-based interfaces.
During their discussion, (mark 1:45 in the clip embedded above) Mundie uttered the following remarks about Siri, Apple’s personal-assistant technology:
“People are infatuated with Apple announcing it. It’s good marketing, but at least as the technological capability you could argue that Microsoft has had a similar capability in Windows Phones for more than a year, since Windows Phone 7 was introduced.”
Um… no you haven’t, Mundie! You see, if Windows Phone 7 did context, you might get away with saying that. But it doesn’t. Microsoft’s voice-centric services don't even come close to Siri.
“you can pick ‘em up and say ‘text Eric’ and say what you wanna say and it transcribes it,” Mundie elaborates. That’s right - it transcribes. That’s all it does. And it took you guys a while to get there too.