Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant has been likened to Apple’s Siri in the past, in that you can ask it questions and get it to remind you to do certain things.
It also helps encourage users to move over to a Microsoft OneDrive subscription. And this is why Microsoft is looking to help those on Android and iOS (the vast majority of the smartphone market) sync all their files and documents across their devices. This has meant catering heavily to Android and iOS and doubling down on its efforts in the PC sphere - a realm where Windows still rules the roost. If they send some of my data over the internet but promise not to look at it, that is not the same thing to me as not sending it in the first place.With Microsoft struggling to gain a solid foothold with Windows Phone, even in the wake of its Nokia Devices acquisition, the Seattle-based company has been refocusing its efforts on software. What I want to know is if they transmit any of my phone (or PC's.) data over the internet in the first place, or whether all data stays local to my network. In particular, "relying" on local connections and not "storing" it on Microsoft's servers is not the same thing as "never sending data over the internet" to begin with. When disconnected there is no maintained data, but rather a local cache on the user's PC for some items. Your Phone relies on local connections through Wi-Fi (the iPhone also needs Bluetooth), but the system never takes your data and stores it on Microsoft's servers. This page claims the following, but I find it unsatisfactory: It makes me wonder about the privacy implications. It requires a Microsoft account, but I don't really see why that should be necessary for a local connection between my phone and my computer. I'm trying to decide whether or not to use the Your Phone app on Windows, and not finding much information on it.
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