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How could you see it being helpful for planning a trip? What do you normally do when planning a trip?
I'm wondering what they mean when they describe "using cloud-powered intelligence" too. This all seems like a good idea, but it looks like a simplified version of extensions like OneNote and Evernote.- Elliot Kirk
Microsoft
Hi ntriulzi, we use local processing to pull out entities on the websites such as price or ratings. We hope that this will make it easier to compare apples with apples across different sites. The cloud portion is how we train the local processor to know what is what. This allows us to get better over time, and quickly adapt to changes in web pages. You can learn more about our Collections plans by reading the full blog post here. This is just our first peek at the feature, and we are not even close to feature complete. We want to get early feedback, so that we can adapt our plans to make it fit our customers needs most completely. Thanks - Elliot
Elliot Kirk one thing that I am baffled by is that this featured wasn't fundamentally developed as an integration into OneNote? That seems very short-sighted to me....
ntriulzi The ability to take a collection and transform/reformat into a word document or Excel spread sheet sets it apart.
- Elliot Kirk
Hi Oldmil1165, we only have export to Microsoft Excel today, but we are going to expand this as we go. Beyond Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, what other programs would you feel most strongly about? What do you use today to gather and track information in this way?
