I can't help with Cortana other than to say it's similar to Siri or Google Now. As for your email, who is your email provider? Do you have a Hotmail account (username@hotmail.com) or some other account? Incredimail is just "reader" that allows you pull multiple email addresses into one place. Microsoft has offered "Outlook" in a variety of forms over the years. The full blown Outlook was part of their Office suite and beyond being a reader offered contact management, calendars, and notes. There was also Outlook Express, which was a basically a reader. Today Microsoft offers Outlook online which is basically Hotmail with a new domain. Why don't we start with the domain of your email account and see if we can figure it out from there. Don't post the user name, use the part after @.

We get a daily newspaper and it has both a cross word and a sodoku puzzle. [I do both in pencil by necessity.] Once in a while, I'll try the cross word puzzle, but most of the time, i don't get more that half way through. Our puzzle editor is too obtuse with his definitions. The sodoku puzzles are fun. In our paper, the difficulty lever begins with the easiest on Monday and then progressing to the most difficult on Saturday. I can solve the Monday thru Wednesday puzzles in reasonabe time, and then the snags begin to appear on Thursday. I can solve the Thur - Sat puzzles, but have to resort to drastic measures becasue these require guesses after the obvious numbers have been filled in. I usually don't bother with the Friday and Saturday puzzle because those are too time comsuming. I make use of the copier built inot my printer to solve the harder puzzles. After all the obvious numbers have been filled in, I lightly pencil in all possibilities in the remaining squares and then make several copies. I begin experimenting on a copy starting by circling a guess and marking out all eliminations this guess makes. If i can proceed through the entire puzzle ending with a solution, then I have guessed correctly. Most of the time, this does not happen and I must return to a nother copy and make a different guess. Continue making guesses on fresh copies until you find the solution. Hint: Start the first guess in a square that contains only 2 possibilities. If that one does not work out, then return to that square and try the other possibility. Often, this is the quickest way to find a solution. However, I have encountered puzzles where both guesses have ended in blind alleys which forces one to try a different square.

Clarification/Correction to my previous post... I happened to be at Costco today and I visited the cell phone kiosk to ask some questions. Here is what I found out: 1. Within the "trial period" you can return any phone and get a different one from the same carrier. The length of this trial period varies depending on the carrier, but seems to be in the range of 14-30 days. 2. Within the first 90 days, you can return any phone (by mail) that has a problem/defect and get a replacement or refund from Costco. (Getting a refund from Costco for the phone does not get you out of your contract with the carrier.) 3. If you want a different phone after the trial period is over, it would be up to the carrier whether to agree to that...no guarantees. 4. All phones come with the standard 1-year manufacturer's warranty. Conclusion: 1) In terms of warranty/exchange, Costco offers about what a stand alone cell phone store does, aside from the 90 day refund/exchange through Costco, and 2) Costco seems to offer better deals for your money.

They used to talk it up. Perhaps there was consumer resistance. I know when I got my Miele coolers, my wi-fi was internal only, mostly for the stereo, and the remote vision module was expensive. It can do things like call you if someone leaves the freezer open, and phone home to tell the techs what the trouble is, but I've had a few reasons to call the techs and they speak human very well, and are very helpful and accommodating without the gizmo. The apps are newer, but I don't even use the Anova app for my circulator. It seems like a bother. I look up the times and temps I want and just set it manually. While there is potential there, it's more of "toys for boys" kind of thing so far, the gizmo that gets the missus her double the price of the big box store appliance. That's a standard kind of marketing tool that predates the world wide web. ;)