"... many wonderful things about Windows Phone 8, but financial success and general popularity are not among them..."

Like others have said, I use voice commands when I am alone. Sometimes, when alone in the car I might use it to answer an SMS with 1 or 2 words, otherwise, I already locked myself into the bathroom to dictate a Google search too long to type... But SwiftKey's latest update made it so easy and quick to type anything...

Imagine the millions upon millions of IT tickets filed by people that will not find their apps when their enterprises roll in Win 8 updates.

This should be standardized. Of course this could induce problems if you have multiple TVs in your IR emitter FOV but nothing that channel settings couldn't solve. (As in, my remote is set to use channel 2 on all devices, let's set all devices to channel 2). And then, backward compatibility will not exist on non…