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Make Cortana your personal assistant? Cortana is Microsoft’s

Siri: a voice-activated assistant, as described in Chapter 5. No
reason to turn her off unless you don’t like the idea of your queries
being sent to Microsoft’s servers. (Also turn on “Let Cortana
respond to ‘Hey Cortana’ ” if you’d like to be able to ask things of

Cortana without having to click a button first; she’ll be listening
for her name at all times.)

Choose No or Yes.

Choose privacy settings for your device. This screen (Figure A-2,
bottom) is a big deal; it lays out every single kind of information

Windows would like to collect from your PC to send back to
Microsoft.

Of course, the reason it’s harvesting data is to make possible the

features listed here: Speech recognition, Find my device, Inking &
typing, and so on.