Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2018 January 8

= January 8 =

Windows 10 Mobile's Cortana's Quiet hours feature: possible collusion with MNOs and cold callers?
As far as I know, Windows 10 Mobile's Cortana's Quiet hours feature enables the user to set one automatic quiet-hour period for all the weekdays he or she chooses. This may be very inconvenient for some people, as these restrictions do not allow for different quiet-hour settings on workdays and weekends. Thus, there being no alternative apps with the Quiet hours feature, no Windows 10 Mobile user can automatically protect themselves from both unwanted night calls & unwanted early-weekend-morning cold calls. Has this hypothetical profit-over-people policy ever been criticized or at least neutrally described by any reliable source ? --Синкретик (talk) 19:52, 8 January 2018 (UTC)--Синкретик (talk) 18:48, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * To the best of my knowledge, no. You post is the first time I'm hearing of this.  BTW, Windows Mobile is apparently dead, so you can request this feature from Microsoft, but it's very unlikely they will fix it.  A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 19:58, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Well there's no reason to come up with wacky conspiracy theories for the flaw in this feature when the more likely reason is Windows Mobile was basically a complete failure so Microsoft could not afford to fix every shortcoming. (It's surprising how long before mobile phone alarms universally had this feature even though it's something trivial to implement. Either this is because the manufacturers are in cahoots with um I dunno, McDonalds or they just didn't think about it.) A more relevant criticism seems to be that this feature depends on Cortana which wasn't (isn't?) even universall available. [//mspoweruser.com/joe-belfiore-confirms-quiet-hours-and-inner-circle-tied-to-cortana/ . According to various sources like the earlier one and [//forums.windowscentral.com/windows-10-mobile/409245-can-cortana-quiet-hour-recognize-my-calendar-block-incoming-call-while-i-am-meeting.html] [//cortana.uservoice.com/forums/258153-tasks-completion/suggestions/10082994-cortana-must-automatically-enable-multiple-quiet-h] [//forums.windowscentral.com/windows-10-mobile-insider-preview/395241-where-did-enabling-quiet-hours-calendar-busy-events-go.html] [//www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/3v0kkx/quiet_hours_during_calendar_events_marked_busy/] [//mspoweruser.com/known-issues-missing-features-windows-10-technical-preview-phones/, in Windows 8.1 you could choose to turn on quiet hours when marked as busy in the calendar. AFAICT, this was never implemented in Windows 10. Again you can come up with wacky conspiracy theories on why this is the case, or go with the simpler reason that Microsoft had realised their mobile OS strategy had failed by the time of Windows 10. Also as for RS, again given the failings of Windows Mobile, it's difficult enough to find RS that even talk about the quiet hours feature. Nil Einne (talk) 10:04, 9 January 2018 (UTC)