Unfortunately, our months of testing Ink proved the feature to be more toy than tool. Windows 10's other major new feature is Ink, which translates notes written with your stylus or finger on the screen into text notes. Microsoft introduced the option for Windows 10 PC and Xbox One owners to play against (or with) each other in games. Special Featuresīoth Windows 10 Anniversary Update and macOS Sierra allow you to unlock your device with a device (your phone on a PC and an Apple Watch on a Mac), but their other new special features differ greatly. Winner: Draw. Siri's arrival brings macOS to parity, but it doesn't surpass Cortana.

In addition, while both Siri and Cortana offer dashboards for their assistants where you can see the results, only macOS lets you drag and drop those results onto documents you're working on. Cortana has one leg up on Siri: it accepts both verbal and typed commands, while you can only speak to Siri. In our testing, not only could Cortana answer the question 'Who is the presdient of the U.S.?' but when we asked 'how old is he?' it informed us that Barack Obama is 54 years old.

In the keynote presentation at WWDC, Craig Federighi got Siri to whittle down his file search for images to just the photos that Ken had sent him that Craig tagged as Drafts. While Siri can help manage files and Cortana can send news notifications, both now handle contextual follow-up questions.

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