I can seem to find Cortana in that build 9834. That means it is not expected to be coming soon to Windows 9.
since Cortana is not available outside the US atm, I believe that it will show up later when it is deployed all over the windows 8.1 phones worldwide
Cortana is actually one of their "special feature" & I don't think the technical preview will have it (it may be hidden in the build).... I guess, we would have to wait till beta to actually see & use Cortana in Windows 9
I would be a bit surprised if Windows Phone 8.1 Update 2 would extend the availability of Cortana and Windows-9 would not have it at all.
Had you been around here a bit longer, you'd understand the "clown" reference. Be nice to Brad, he brings good stuff.
Poor Brad still couldn't get over somebody said bad things about Neowin, that's why he registered in MDL in the first place. btw, the feedback needs "insider program", hopefully they open up winpanel again, I don't need the keys, but would like to have another set of win9DVD.
Thats true......but, Cortana also has a live tile, don't forget that & no such app was shown in the screenshot,guess we will know soon....when the preview gets released.
That 'Remind me' feature is more or less like the Alarm in Windows 8 or Windows 8.1. That is far from being Cortana looking how it is in Windows phone.
All this speculation about this, that, and the other thing, is like finding the sex of a child before it is born, no fun IMO. Wait until the baby pops out, be glad for what you get as long as all the parts are there and in working order, and never name a child until you see it. When I see the next version of Windows I'll decide on its name depending on how it looks/works. Maybe Windows Workx, maybe Windows Sux.
That's why I said "Cortana Specific" & Cortana does have this type of feature in Windows Phone, if it was simply an alarm app...why would they change the name into something like that? It must do something more maybe? it might be there as a pre-Cortana preview..so that they could show some of these reminder features (without showing Cortana)& improve it's functionality with user feedback..so that Cortana works nearly perfect when Windows 9 beta is launched.Just like the taskbar user tile was there in pre-Dev preview Win8 builds...just to test the user tile of the start screen (Without actually showing any part of the new Start Screen UI).The Start Screen was a special feature of Windows 8 & they didn't want to show/let people use it until it was properly ready....the same case might be for Cortana. LOL