On this past week’s Windows Weekly show, it was mentioned that the EU is investigating MS’s purchase of Nuance as being “anti-competitive,” - apparently some entity complained to the EU. That’s funny because Nuance itself gobbled up ~all sorts of various little companies to corner the market. Google, Apple, Amazon all provide speech recognition in their products and Microsoft is hardly dominant in online speech recognition, e.g., Amazon Echo is taking over the world and Cortana bombed. So I do hope the EU comes to its senses on the acquisition of Nuance. Perhaps the investigation is specifically related to business in the healthcare/medical industry, the reason principally, according to Nadella, that Nuance was acquired. The WW podcast also made the point that the Win11 improvements are in “speech control” and “speech texting” is considered a separate feature in Windows and is not being affected by the latest Win11 potential feature update.
Edit_Update: The EU approved Microsoft’s acquisition of Nuance with no restrictions. The FTC already approved the acquisition back around the beginning of June, 2021. The U.K. on its lonesome (post-Brexit) is beginning to review the deal…