x.ai scheduling bot heads to the enterprise If you want to experience AI in a meaningful way, you need to look at x.ai’s meeting scheduling service. I have written about them before just as they were emerging from incubation (see Testing Amy: What it’s like to have appointments scheduled by an AI assistant at GeekWire). In late 2017, x.ai promoted its two agent … [Read more...] about x.ai scheduling bot heads to the enterprise
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Amazon Alexa Frailty: Syntax Fragmentation in the Skill Ecosystem
Amazon Alexa Frailty: Syntax Fragmentation in the Skill Ecosystem Amazon Alexa has a frailty problem and it's me. I can’t remember all of the special syntax required to make its skills work. Unlike an app, where I click and am brought into an environment that offers visual clues and instructions, I’m stuck with Alexa either not understanding me or lecturing me. Neither of … [Read more...] about Amazon Alexa Frailty: Syntax Fragmentation in the Skill Ecosystem
Avoid Microsoft Teams Front-End for Curated Microsoft SharePoint Sites
Microsoft Teams SharePoint Front-End? Microsoft Team’s continues to evolve. Teams offers some good basic collaboration features, but one thing the product has not evolved into is a knowledge management front-end to SharePoint. It is true that Teams is built on SharePoint. While, Teams is a major advance over the simple Team Sites that existed in previous versions … [Read more...] about Avoid Microsoft Teams Front-End for Curated Microsoft SharePoint Sites
In defense of Microsoft Surface
This isn't a formal review of Microsoft's Surface tablets. Plenty of people can tell you about the original Surface RT's 1366 x 768 pixel display, the NVIDIA Tegra 3 Quad-core processor and the various ports and sensors. And many have—in not-so-glowing terms when software and hardware are examined together. As I write this, Microsoft has announced the RT's successor, the new … [Read more...] about In defense of Microsoft Surface
Nine Much Needed Updates to Microsoft Office
Microsoft looks to Office 2013 as an “modernization” it is much more a throwback than an evolutionary step forward. Although Office was just updated, 2013 breaks some things, fails to deliver in others and introduced new quirks as well — here is a list of updates that will make Office 2013 better without completely rewriting the code, and few thoughts about opportunities for a … [Read more...] about Nine Much Needed Updates to Microsoft Office